Dana Stevens is responsible for SAM's High Means DUI initiative. She has been a public health and safety advocate most of her adult life! She cut her policy chops serving as a volunteer for the 9th District PTA (San Diego & Imperial Counties) as Vice President of Community Concerns and then Vice President of Public Health. She also served on the state PTA Legislative Committee, where she learned to work state legislation. Volunteer policy work led to professional campaign initiatives, including the Campaign to Stop Gun Violence (including the assault weapons ban, an initiative to eliminate Saturday Night Specials and to prohibit look-a-like toy guns). In 1994, Stevens ran the San Diego County campaign organization in opposition to big tobacco's Prop 188 (to roll back California's progressive tobacco-free workplace laws). In spite of being outspent (20/1) the NO on 188 campaign trounced big tobacco with 74% of the vote. Her work to reduce binge and underage drinking in Mexico (where the drinking age is 18) was featured on CBS News programs 60 Minutes and 48-Hours, as well as the Journal of the American Medical Association. As chair of the Committee on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs for Palomar Health, California's largest public hospital district, she led the county's fist initiative to address Rx drug abuse prevention known as Prescription for Disaster. The work was recognized with both the Gold and Silver Health Communicators Awards for Advocacy. Stevens was awarded their CommUNITY Health Hero Award for leadership in substance abuse prevention. She is the Executive Director of Community Action, Service & Advocacy (CASA), where she has successfully developed two Drug-Free Communities support programs and continues to provide technical assistance to these rural and suburban coalitions. In addition, under CASA's STOP Act grant (the Surgeon General's initiative to prevent underage & binge drinking) she led a local effort to pass San Diego County's first (and only) Deemed Approved ordinance -- a land-use regulation to reign in problematic alcohol outlets and utilize a Conditional Use Permit process for all new alcohol licensees. CASA was awarded San Diego County's Public Health Champion for 2016.