Pubdate: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 Source: San Antonio Express-News (TX) Copyright: 2001 San Antonio Express-News Contact: http://www.mysanantonio.com/expressnews/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/384 FORMER LBJ OFFICIAL TO INSPECT PROGRAM A former White House Cabinet member and founder of an award-winning anti-drug program will be in San Antonio today to examine the program's local operations and meet with participants. Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare under President Johnson, will tour the CASASTART site at Athens Elementary School and meet with family members participating in the program and community leaders during the visit. Califano is president of the Columbia University Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, or CASA, which developed Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows, or START, and took the program to 24 communities, including San Antonio and La Montana Vista, a colonia near El Paso. The program, which the city operates with federal grant money, is school-centered and brings police departments, family services and one-on-one assistance together to prevent substance abuse and violence among youths ages 8-13. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth