A. Each member is an equal participant on the Canadian National Board dedicated and subscribing to the following principles:
1. To promote a healthy lifestyle-free of drugs.
2. To advocate no use of illegal drugs and no abuse of legal drugs, including alcohol, tobacco and solvents.
3. To oppose legalization of drugs.
4. To support the United Nations Conventions and Treaties concerning drugs and psychotropic substances.
5. To participate with and support the DPNA (Drug Prevention Network of the Americas).
B. Each Board member shall support demand reduction principles and foster communication and cooperation among NGO’s who are working to stem illicit drug use in and around the world.
C. Each Board member shall foster citizen involvement and community cooperation to address the drug problem at the local level.
D. Each Board member shall encourage conferences and initiatives focusing on drug prevention education, the establishment of drug prevention networks and community anti drug coalitions, and the promotion of positive, healthy, drug-free norms and attitudes in society.
C.D. (Chuck) Doucette – British Columbia, President
Chuck retired in July 2007 after serving over 35 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Over 30 of those years were spent in various aspects of Drug Enforcement in and around Vancouver, BC. Chuck’s last twelve years in the RCMP were spent coordinating prevention/education initiatives in the Drug Awareness Service, retiring as the Pacific Region Coordinator (responsible for BC and Yukon). His experience includes development of prevention initiatives at various levels; giving presentations at public meetings and conferences; and, training police officers in both Demand Reduction initiatives and Supply Reduction techniques. He has attended a number of international conferences dealing with drug prevention and has visited England, Sweden, Germany, and The Netherlands to learn about their drug policies. In the past, Chuck was on the board for the Pacifica Treatment Center in Vancouver for six years, the Little House on 12th (community focus), and the D.A.R.E. BC (provincial focus). He was a co-founder of the Addictive Drug Information Council in Vancouver and he is a member of the International Task Force for Strategic Drug Policy.
Gwen Landolt – Central Ontario, Vice-President
Gwendolyn Landolt graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and was called to the BC Bar. She has had an extensive legal career in private practice, as a Crown prosecutor and as a lawyer with the federal government. She is National Vice President of REAL Women of Canada, a 55,000 member national women’s organization which was founded in 1983.
Andy Bigras – Quebec, Treasurer
Andy Bigras over the past 15 years Andy has been studying and researching Harm Reduction programs and is recognized as an authority on national drug issues. Andy also has over 12 years of volunteer hands on experience working with the poor, homeless and addicts of the inner city. Andy believes the Principles of the Drug Prevention Network will be the benchmark for future
Kim Scott- Alberta, Secretary
Kim has a strong passion to contribute to working towards a drug-free world. Through personal experience and family tragedy, Kim came to realize that the prior focus of prevention, treatment, and recovery has come to be replaced with an emphasis on harm reduction consuming vast sums of public funds with little to no progress in reducing substance use disorder and substance misuse. She joined the Drug Prevention Network of Canada Board to advocate for a greater focus on prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Kim holds two degrees from the University of Calgary, B. Arts in Sociology and B. Comm. in Accounting and has held financial related roles throughout her career in industry. She previously served as President of Parent Resource institute on Drug Education in 1987, (now defunct), while in living in Yellowknife, N.W.T.
HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
Calvina Fay, Former Executive Director, Drug Free America
Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.). Drug Free America Foundation provides education to the public about the dangers of drugs of abuse and efforts of drug pushers to legalize drugs. S.O.S. conducts political activities to combat drug legalization efforts. Professor Fay is also the Director of the International Scientific and Medical Forum on Drug Abuse, a brain-trust of the world’s leading physicians and scientific scholars dedicated to advancing research of drug use and drug abuse. Professor Fay is the former Executive Director of the Drug Free Business Alliance (DBA), a Houston-based nonprofit coalition of member businesses involved in attacking the drug problem in the workplaces of the Texas Gulf Coast area. DBA has served as a model program for other U.S. cities and in several other countries.
Professor Fay has been an outspoken advocate against the legalization of drugs for over 20 years. She was a founding board member of S.O.S. and she is the former president of Drug Watch International, a network engaged in combating the drug legalization movement globally. Professor Fay has served as an adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy as well as several political leaders, including President Bush, on drug policy issues.
Professor Fay has over 25 years of experience in the drug prevention field and is considered a pioneering expert on workplace drug abuse prevention programs. She has authored several books, including The Supervisor’s Handbook For Preventing Drug Abuse in The Workplace and Starting a Drug Free Business Initiative, as well as numerous newsletters and publications in the field that have been published at regional and national levels. She was the managing editor and a co-author of A Report on Employer Attitudes and the Impact of Drug Control Strategies on Workplace Productivity. She also served as the managing editor of a monograph titled Drug Abuse in the Decade of the Brain.
David Berner – Former Executive Director
David was the Founder and Executive Director of Canada’s first residential treatment centre on the therapeutic community model. The X-Kalay Foundation was established in Vancouver in 1967. The original program was closed on B.C. after 10 years, but its satellite program in Manitoba has continued to flourish and graduate clean and sober citizens. Now known as the Behavioural Health Foundation (www.bhf.ca), the program recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary.
David has built a strong record of achievement in marketing, broadcasting, acting, writing, leadership and citizen advocacy.
