For Immediate Release Date: January 6, 2022 Contacts: Scott Henderson, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (408) 722-8838: Scott Allen, Operation 2 Save Lives-QRT National, (508) 208-2244 The National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (National DEC) and Operation 2 Save Lives-QRT National (O2S & QRT National) are excited to announce their partnership to offer programs, train, equip and support multidisciplinary teams of professionals to provide services to children and families affected by a parent or caregiver substance misuse. The organizations’ approaches are to identify children as early as possible, intervene appropriately, and secure services for children and families, seeing that these services are sustained. Drug Endangered Children are children who are at risk of suffering physical, mental, or emotional harm because of parent or caregiver’s legal or illegal substance misuse. They may also be children whose caretaker’s legal or illegal substance use interferes with the caretaker’s ability to parent and