Businesses that work with Syracuse Drug Commission

The Syracuse/Onondaga Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission provides the Clear Minds Clear Messages media campaign every year to local students throughout Onondaga County, since the campaign's conception in 1992. This media project is an educational vehicle for local educators and youth providers to further instruct about the benefits of "Healthy Choices/Healthy Lifestyles", as well as the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. It also provides information about media, media education and media literacy. Clear Minds Clear Messages provides students with the opportunity to create their own anti-drug media messages. This combination of substance abuse education and the production of youth-created media messages has been found to be a "best practice" in drug prevention. The media messages selected in the county-wide judging are professionally produced into posters, billboards, editorials, radio and televison PSAs, t-shirts and postcards which are then posted throughout the county.
             2009 Winners
Graphic Design- Tobaaco Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Brooke Pufky, Gillette Road MS, Grade 7
Ø      Ryan Delany, St. Daniel/St. Matthew Academy, Grade 5
Ø      Ryan Vacchiano, Gillette Road MS, Grade 6
Billboard Winner
Ø      Cindy Voong, Gillette Road MS, Grade 7

Graphic Design- Prescription Drug Abuse Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Sydney Hurn, Gillette Road MS, Grade 7
Ø      Brittany Bombard, BRIDGES Alternative School, Grade 9
Ø      Marshall Rioux, Gillette Road MS, Grade 6
Billboard Winner
Ø      Maureen McInerney, Camillus MS, Grade 8

Graphic Design- Alcohol/Underage Drinking Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Danielle Yeardon, St. Daniel/St. Matthew Academy, Grade 5
Ø      Meru Patel, Gillette Rad MS, Grade 7
Ø      Hannah Heppeler, Blessed Sacrament School, Grade 6
Billboard Winner
Ø      Alex Marshall, Gillette Road MS, Grade 7

Graphic Design- Overall Drug Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Sphia Burns, St. Daniel/St. Matthew Academy, Grade 2
Ø      Madison Cook, Bishop’s Academy at St. Charles, Grade 5
Ø      Caroline Hagen, Blessed Sacrament, Grade 3
Billboard Winner
Ø      Steven King, Blessed Sacrament, Grade 6

Editorial- Alcohol Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Elibeth Collazo, BRIDGES Alternative School, Grade 9

Editorial- Overall Drug Category
Calendar Winners
Ø      Kayla Salle, Gillette Road MS, Grade 7