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ABOVE: MADD National Youth Summit--a
mural about underage drinking and driving collaboratively created with youth from the 435
Congressional Districts and dignitaries, May 1997.
Youth Murals on Prevention
Xavier Cortada, a Join Together National
Leadership Fellow and an adjunct adjunct assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences in the University of Miami School of Medicine, has developed pro-social
prevention murals addressing issues such as protective factors, under-age drinking and
substance abuse prevention-- see samples below. Other pro-social mural topics focus
on diversity, juvenile justice, schools, and public housing.
To learn more about how you can have Mr. Cortada create a
similar mural during your conference
or event, please click on the hyperlinks above.
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Drinking and Driving: The MADD
Murals
 madd in the capitol (washington, d.c.):
MADD National Youth Summit--a mural about underage drinking and driving collaboratively
created with youth from the 435 Congressional Districts and dignitaries, May 1997. |
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 Making a Difference Mural, an internet-supported
collaborative mural created with youth from every US Congressional District during the MADD
2000 National Youth Summit in Washington, DC.
National Victims Mural in
Dallas, 1998
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 Creation of Initiative Mural with the 50 Governors’ spouses, Leadership
to Keep Children Alcohol Free, National
Conference. This conference is sponsored by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institute of
Health’s Offices of Research on Women’s Health and Research on Minority Health,
and will bring together Governors’ spouses, their staff, State Alcohol Directors, and
experts in the field of prevention of alcohol use by children.
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"COMMUNITY U" Mural,
for Governor's Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana, Summer 1997.
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Indiana Teen Institute--creation of
"Impact", a pro-social collaborative mural with over 100 high school students
from across the State of Indiana attending the Summer Institute in Vincennes, Indiana,
July 22-26, 2000.
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Substance Abuse
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HBO mural:
HBO Faces of Addiction--Family Dialogue Day mural, SciTrek, Atlanta, GA, 1997
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Bodega de la Familia:
The artist and staff from Bodega de la Familia worked collaboratively to plan a community
mobilizing art project, working with youth from Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Manhattan, New York, 1997.
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 Compartiendo con Bolivia: A
special art exhibit and mural creating project sponsored by Arts America, the United
States Information Service, the Unites States Embassy in La Paz, 1997. |
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Other
International Drug Abuse Prevention Projects:Compartiendo
con Panama, Panama City, 1999.
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