One Choice Prevention: A Message of Hope and Science

Caroline DuPont, MD, is Vice President of the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. (IBH), a 501(c)3 non-profit research and policy organization located in Rockville, MD. The IBH mission is to reduce the use of illegal drugs. In her role as Vice President, Caroline DuPont, MD focuses on the areas of addiction treatment and prevention. She maintains a private practice specializing in anxiety and addiction. Formerly she was the founding President and Principal Investigator of DuPont Clinical Research, Inc., where she directed a team that conducted studies of investigational medication for the anxiety and affective disorders. Dr. DuPont received her MD from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston and completed her training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where for years she held an appointment on the clinical faculty of psychiatry. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. She is the co-author of numerous publications and several book chapters on anxiety and addiction. topics.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Nancy Pasquale is Co-founder and Coalition Coordinator of RyeACT, a Drug Free Communities prevention coalition in Rye, NY. Her professional background is in human resources development and curriculum design, and she served for two terms as an elected Trustee of the Rye City School District Board of Education. Ms. Pasquale is a founding member of the One Choice Community, in partnership with the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., and a co-creator of the One Choice Prevention Toolkit, an online resource for coalitions and prevention professionals nationally. She is a founding member of K.N.O.W. 2 Prevent, a collaborative of prevention leaders in Westchester County, NY and is certified by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing as an instructor of Youth Mental Health First Aid. Ms. Pasquale oversees all programmatic aspects of RyeACT’s operations and serves as Co-Advisor of the Youth Action Team, working directly with youth leaders on peer-to-peer prevention initiatives. Under her stewardship, RyeACT has been recognized by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for exemplary leadership in youth prevention. Ms. Pasquale has presented at CADCA’s National Leadership Forum and Mid-Year Training Institute, and The Rx Summit as well at national and regional conferences of The American Society of Addiction Medicine, The School-Based Health Alliance, and Youth to Youth International, among others.