Welcome
Welcome to MAPPA, the Maryland Association of Prevention Professionals and Advocates.
We represent prevention experts throughout the state of Maryland. Our membership includes state and private
industry professionals, consultants, and community volunteers.
Our vision is to unite and empower prevention professionals within Maryland to promote and protect
health and wellness across the lifespan primarily by preventing, delaying and reducing the use of alcohol,
tobacco and other drugs, as well as the prevention of associated risky behaviors such as violence and injury,
crime, academic failure, DWI/DUI and young parenthood.
Our mission is to promote healthy lifestyles for all Maryland residents while preventing abuse of alcohol,
tobacco or other harmful substances and associated risky behaviors across the lifespan.
About Us
In 1998, a group of prevention professionals in Maryland came together to form a professional association to promote prevention as an important field throughout the state. This active group created position papers, defined prevention for other professionals, assisted in statewide planning efforts in a way employees are often unable to and provided assistance to others in the prevention field.
Since then MAPPA has served as a forum for discussion of issues, a means of networking within
the field and a voice to articulate prevention concerns.
Although the State of Maryland has made gains in alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) prevention
over the last fifteen years, Maryland still has an epidemic of alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems.
MAPPA provides a forum to address these issues.
Events
MAPPA is a Proud Member
International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium which "protects the public by establishing standards and facilitating reciprocity for the credentialing of addiction-related professionals. The largest organization of its kind, the IC&RC represents more than 40,000 professionals worldwide."
