Indiana SADD
Students Against Destructive Decisions
YOUTH LEADERSHIP. PEER-TO-PEER PREVENTION.
Stand up.
Speak out.
Lead change.
Join students across Indiana who are building safer, healthier schools and communities. Find the tools, support, and opportunities to lead with your chapter.
Empower. Engage. Mobilize. Change.
Student voices. Stronger communities.
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Browse prevention resources:
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Resources for SADD advisors and chapter members.
Indiana SADD
Chapter Resources
Guidebooks, Toolkits, and More
Build, strengthen, and sustain your Indiana SADD chapter with practical resources for advisors and student leaders. Explore guidebooks, checklists, recruiting tips, planning tools, and activity guides to help your team turn ideas into purposeful prevention.
Whether you’re starting a chapter or preparing the next generation to lead, these materials support meaningful student leadership and informed action.
Real data. Build smart campaigns. Indiana-focused.
Indiana SADD
Fact Sheet Series
Data and Fact Sheets
Get the latest Indiana teen data on alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs. The series also covers emerging products, driving safety, gambling, and bullying. Each sheet shows how Indiana teens compare nationally and how to use the numbers in your chapter’s campaigns and messaging.
Start with the Using Data Right guide, and, when available, pair every sheet with local data for your school or county.
Pass the Torch Toolkit
Indiana SADD
Pass the Torch Toolkit
Lead today. Prepare tomorrow. Leave a legacy.
Every spring, chapters say goodbye to the seniors who helped build them. Pass the Torch helps make sure your chapter keeps going strong after they graduate.
This free toolkit provides senior members with a year-long plan to prepare underclassmen to lead. It includes a month-by-month timeline, peer training modules, tips for advisor transitions, and fillable templates for building your Chapter Playbook.
Seniors and their Torchbearers can also join optional virtual Torch Talks, facilitated by the Indiana SADD team, to connect with leaders of chapters across Indiana.
Indiana SADD
State Leadership Team
State Leadership Team
Empower. Engage. Mobilize. Change.
If you are a SADD member in Indiana and want to share your passion and talents beyond the school and community levels, we encourage you to apply!
We will review new applications on
January 6, 2027, and March 26, 2027.
As a student-led program, we are committed to providing meaningful opportunities for SADD student leaders to contribute at both the chapter and state levels. We meet virtually, with occasional in-person meetings.
Links to prevention tools, strategies, and data resources.
SPF and Prevention Resources
Youth Data & Community Assessment
Resources to help chapters identify prevention priorities using local, state, and national data.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
Indiana Youth Survey (INYS)
CDC Overdose Prevention Channel
Prevention Planning & Evidence-Based Strategies
Resources for understanding the Strategic Prevention Framework, selecting appropriate strategies, and strengthening prevention practices.
SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
Prevention Technology Transfer Center
Prevention Learning Portal (PTTC)
Evidence-based Prevention (PTTC)
What Does NOT Work in Prevention (PTTC)
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
Community Tool Box: Practical Toolkits
Indiana Prevention Partners & Resources
Organizations supporting prevention planning, training, collaboration, and youth development throughout Indiana.
Links to Substance Misuse Prevention Resources.
Substance Misuse Prevention Resources
Alcohol & Underage Drinking
Stop Underage Drinking
NIAAA Facts About Teen Drinking
Vaping & Nicotine
Vape-Free Indiana | Free Toolkits & Resources
Vaping: know the truth | truth initiative
You and Me, Together Vape-Free | Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
Tobacco/Nicotine Toolkit
Tobacco & the Environment Toolkit
Cannabis
Youth Marijuana Prevention | Johnny's Ambassadors
Stanford REACH Lab | Cannabis Awareness Toolkit
Cannabis Campaign Kit
Fentanyl & Other Drugs
Song for Charlie | Peer-to-Peer Fentanyl Education
Overdose Lifeline
Indiana Naloxone Administration Heatmap
Aware & Prepare: Fentanyl & Other Opioid Overdose Prevention
Drug Education & Facts
Classroom Resources on Drug Effects
Just Think Twice | Get the Facts about Drugs
Prevention Conversations & Community Engagement
Links to Mobility Safety Prevention Resources.
Mobility Safety Prevention Resources
Indiana & National Traffic Safety Data
Indiana County-Level Crash Data
INDOT Traffic Data
ICJI Crash Statistics
Crash Fact Books
NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System
CDC WISQARS™
Teen Driver Safety & Education
NHTSA Teen Driver Safety
National Road Safety Foundation
Indiana Probationary License Requirements
Student-Led Prevention & Planning
NHTSA Countermeasures That Work
Safe Routes Toolbox
Indiana SADD Resources and Toolkits
Links to Mental Health and Suicide Prevention resources.
Mental Health Prevention Resources
Mental Health Education & Awareness
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
SAMHSA: Mental Health
Youth Mental Health & Peer-to-Peer Prevention
The Jed Foundation
Erika's Lighthouse: Mental Health Training
Suicide Prevention & Support
988 Indiana.org | Awareness Toolkit
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: Indiana
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse & Suicide
Substance Use & Mental Health
Operation Parent | Webinars, Toolkits, Handbooks, and more
Links to Digital Wellness and Literacy Prevention Resources.
Digital Wellness & Media Literacy
Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Common Sense Education | Digital Citizenship
Know2Protect | Stop Online Child Exploitation
ConnectSafely | Guides and Quickguides
Digital Wellness & Health Literacy
Boston Children's Digital Wellness Lab | Teens' Guide
Is This Legit? Health Literacy Lessons
Media Literacy & Educational Resources
U of San Diego | Digital Literacy Guide for Educators
KQED Media Literacy & Media Making for Educators
Checkology | News Literacy Project
Jim Noffsinger Legacy Award
2025-26 New Chapter of the Year
Waldron Jr/Sr High School SADD
Barb Lecher, Advisor
Jim Noffsinger
After attending the 2000 SADD National Conference, Jim Noffsinger, a chapter advisor, returned to Indiana and began developing Indiana SADD. By 2001, Indiana SADD had been awarded a grant by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute’s Council on Impaired and Dangerous Driving.
Jim had recently retired and resided in Gulf Shores, Alabama, when he died following complications from cancer in 2015. In 2016, Indiana SADD created the Jim Noffsinger Legacy Award, presented annually to an outstanding SADD chapter.
Awardees
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2025-26 New Chapter of the Year Waldron Jr/Sr High School SADD
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2023-24 New Chapter of the Year
Shelbyville High School SADD -
2022-23 Chapter of the Year
Western High School SADD -
2019-20 Chapter of the Year
Greensburg Community HS SADD -
2019-20 Outstanding Advisor
Salem HS SADD - Jeanne Page -
2018-19 Co-Chapters of the Year
Greensburg Community HS SADD and Sheridan HS SADD
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