San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness

By giving to SACADA, you empower us to continue providing essential prevention, intervention, outpatient treatment, and recovery support services for children and adults facing substance use challenges. Together, we are changing lives!

The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA) understands the impact of addiction in our community, and we are committed to expanding our reach. Through prevention, intervention, outpatient treatment, and recovery support, we provide programs that help both youth and adults build healthier, substance-free lives.

Together, We Can Make a Difference

Your gift through The Big Give will ensure that SACADA's Youth Prevention, Adult Outpatient Treatment, and Recovery Support programs remain accessible to the most vulnerable members of our community.

How Does SACADA Help Youth?

SACADA's Youth Prevention Specialists work with children in grades 1-12, teaching vital social and emotional learning skills such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, stress management, and responsible decision-making. Using evidence-based curricula, engaging presentations, and alternative activities, our goal is to empower children to make healthy, drug-free choices.

How Does SACADA Help Adults?

SACADA’s services for adults include Outpatient Treatment and Recovery Support. Our licensed professionals provide outpatient treatment to adults seeking structured, evidence-based care to overcome addiction, while our Recovery Support Peer Specialists—who have lived experience—offer peer-to-peer guidance, opioid use prevention training, housing and employment assistance, treatment referrals, and more.

Who We Are

The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA) was established in 1957 as a 501(c)3 organization by a small group of prominent citizen to educate the community about the disease of alcoholism and to assist alcoholics and their families in finding appropriate resources. Since then, SACADA continues to be an innovative leader in providing substance use prevention, assessments, intervention, education, and training to families in our community. Now in our 63rd year of existence, we are still actively educating communities to prevent the use, abuse and addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs that negatively impact health and lives.