The American Public Health Association
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. The Association and its members have been influencing policies and setting priorities in public health since 1872.

APHA brings together researchers, health service providers, administrators, teachers, and other health workers in a unique, multi-disciplinary environment of professional exchange, study, and action.

APHA is concerned with a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases, a smoke-free society, and professional education in public health.

The achievements of APHA are the achievements of the thousands of federal, state, community, and academic health professionals who seek to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. Whether APHA is proposing solutions based on research, helping to set public health practice standards, or working closely with national and international health agencies to improve health worldwide, its mission is to continue to strive to improve public health for everyone.

To download a copy of APHA's position on CRACK, go to: gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~kpomeran/mwpha/crackresoln.doc.

The Center for Women Policy Studies
The Center for Women Policy Studies is an independent, national multiethnic and multicultural feminist policy research and advocacy institution, founded in 1972.

The Center addresses cutting edge issues that have significant implications for women. The Center seeks to incorporate the perspectives of women, in all their diversity, in the formulation of public policy that ensures the just and equitable treatment of women.

The Center's work reflects the belief that all issues facing women are interrelated and that policy research, analyses, and proposals must reflect women's diversity - by race and ethnicity, economic status, sexual orientation, age, and disability. The Center believes that community leaders, philanthropy and business share responsibility with government for ensuring women's rights and justice.

Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment
The Committee on Women, Population and the Environment is a multiracial alliance of feminist activists, health practitioners and scholars. They are committed to promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice; and to eliminating poverty, inequality, racism, and environmental degradation.

CWPE works to: support women's right to safe, voluntary birth control and abortion, while strongly opposing demographically driven population policies; challenge the belief that population growth is the primary cause of environmental degradation, conflict, and growing poverty; work to provide a broader analysis that reflects the complexity of these issues and locate the true causes in a global economic system based on exploitation, profit, and consumerism, the structures of patriarchy and racism that underlie it, and the militarism that enforces and perpetuates it.

By focusing on emerging political issues and alliances, they work to expose the human rights violations that follow from population-based analyses‹such as welfare "reform" and immigration control in the North, and increasing population control in the South - and to get political attention and grassroots action on these subjects.

CWPE is committed to bringing feminist activism and analysis closer together at local, regional, national and international levels, and to working in partnership with community activists and organizations.

Family Watch
Family Watch is a network of groups and individuals concerned about the impact of drug policy on families, women and children. The goals of the network are to increase communication, identify opportunities for collaboration and strengthen each of our voices by joining together in our call for change. They aim to push issues related to families, women and children to the forefront of the drug policy debate, and help create progressive policies which preserve the health and well-being of the family unit and each of its individual members, particularly the children.

National Advocates for Pregnant Women
The National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) is dedicated to protecting the rights of pregnant and parenting women and their children. NAPW seeks to ensure that all women have access to a full range of reproductive health services and choices including abortion, that women are not punished for pregnancy or addiction during pregnancy and that families are not needlessly separated based on medical and public health misinformation. NAPW believes that pregnancy and addiction should be treated as public health issues not criminal justice issues.

National Black Women's Health Project
NBWHP's mission is to improve the health of Black women by providing wellness education and services, health information, and advocacy. NBWHP is committed to defining, promoting, and maintaining the physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being of Black women. They seek to enable Black women to become aware of the nature of physical and mental health and the relationship between the two. They also seek to enable Black women to take control and become active participants in our health maintenance. It is through a broadened concept of health and active programs to promote healthy lifestyles that Black women can live, love, and work in new and more authentic ways.