Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Problematic Substance Use Reducing Alcohol-Related Harms Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Preventing the Problematic Use of Pharmaceuticals Addressing Enforcement Issues Sustaining Workforce Development Implementing a National Research Agenda and Facilitating Knowledge Transfer Improving the quality, accessibility and range of options to treat harmful substance use including substance use disorders (Treatment) Modernizing Legislative, Regulatory and Policy Frameworks Focusing on Children and Youth Reaching Out to Canada’s North Supporting First Nations, Inuit and Métis People in Addressing Their Needs Responding to Offender-Related Issues Raising Public Awareness About Addictions: Creating Momentum for Action National Alcohol Policy Thematic Workshop National Thematic Workshop on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Preventing the Harmful Use of Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals National Thematic Workshop on Enforcement Police and Policing Partners: Supply Management and Demand Reduction Workforce Development Thematic Workshop National Thematic Workshop on Research National Thematic Workshop on Improving the Quality, Accessibility, and Range of Options to Treat Harmful Substance Use Including Substance Use Disorders (Treatment) National Thematic Workshop on Corrections National Symposium on Language

Secretariat

Collaborative development of strategies to address National Framework priorities requires good governance and appropriate coordination and networking.  As an interim measure, Health Canada and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse are continuing to act as an informal secretariat, managing and assisting Framework partners to:

• seek endorsement of the National Framework from their ministers, boards, or governing bodies;
• identify, lead and/or participate, within available resources, in thematic workshops addressing specific priority issues identified in the Framework; and
• self-identify areas where each organization/ partner wishes to play a more active or leadership role.

A longer-term governance model will emerge following the second National Framework Forum, anticipated in the late spring 2008. 

Persons who use alcohol or other drugs and substances, all three levels of governments, non-governmental organizations, First Nations, Inuit and Métis organizations, industry/private sector and other communities of interest and concern are all integral to the ongoing development and implementation of the National Framework.

The informal Secretariat includes:

Michel Perron	Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Linda Dabros	Director, Office of Drug Strategy Secretariat and Strategic Policy, Health Canada
Carolyn Franklin	Senior Advisor, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Marjorie Ward	Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Drug Strategy Secretariat and Strategic Policy, Health Canada
Gisèle Chantigny	Executive Assistant, Office of Drug Strategy Secretariat and Strategic Policy, Health Canada