[6][7] During the 1980s, Sue Rusche, the organization's director, wrote a twice-weekly column on drug abuse that was syndicated by King Features to some 100 newspapers across the nation.
[9] With demonstration grants from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the 1990s, the organization worked with families in inner-city Atlanta public housing communities to help parents protect their children from the crack epidemic[10][11] and to help parents and teachers conduct Club HERO, an after-school program, for sixth-grade students at a large, inner-city middle school.
[12] National Families in Action co-founded the Addiction Studies Program for Journalists with Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1999.
This effort is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, as is the Addiction Studies Program for the States, which began in 2005.
[15] The bill would make the Parent Corps a permanent institution in the effort to protect adolescents from high-risk behaviors that endanger their health, safety, and well-being.