YOUNG LEADERSHIP ADDICTION AWARENESS INC
33 Soundview Drive, Westport, CT 06880 www.generationsos.org

---

Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of Generation S.O.S. is Youth empowering youth to make smarter choices about substance use. Our focus is on prevention. Our primary audience is teens because 90% of the time the seeds of addiction are sewn during adolescence.

Expanding Local Chapters Building upon the tremendous success of our initial chapter in New York City, Generation S.O.S. established chapters in Miami and Los Angeles and, at the end of our fiscal year, was about to launch a chapter in Fairfield County, CT. All our chapters hold monthly meetings for teens and young adults in their local communities. When Covid-19 forced us to pause in-person meetings, Generation S.O.S. moved seamlessly to conducting frequent Zoom sessions and continues to do so today. In the years ahead we intend to open new Generation S.O.S. chapters in cities and towns all around the country.

Community Outreach The shared passion of everyone involved with Generation S.O.S. is to empower a movement of teens and young adults who can help each other cope with the extraordinarily challenging issue of substance use/misuse and, too often, addiction, overdose, and potentially death. We know the community we help to create is extremely beneficial to our kids because they consistently tell us so. As such, we need to reach as many young adults as possible. In addition,the more youth we reach the more we chip away at the stigma that has held back progress on this issue for decades. Our outreach efforts include awareness-building events, a strong social media presence, a robust website, creating inspirational and educational videos for youth and parents, and more. We intend to dramatically expand our outreach efforts in the year ahead to reach under-resourced audiences, with emphasis on key communities where substance issues are the result of other struggles.

Generation S.O.S. Clubs A key component of our work is facilitating the creation of youth-led clubs where teens and young adults can come together to continue their authentic conversations about coping with the challenges of substance use. By the end of our fiscal year we had eight such clubs established or in formation in the greater New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles areas. Most of these clubs were created by high school students and the clubs meet regularly(often virtually) at the end of the school day. However, as our fiscal year closed, we were helping to create clubs in community centers, places of worship, colleges/universities, and other places teens and young adults regularly come together.

---

---

Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (public 990 form dataset) from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202110649349301111_public.xml