Joziah Shipp attends John Hay Early College in Cleveland Ohio. He is an active member of QUAAD (Quality Urban Alliance Approaching Destiny), the state wide Youth Led Prevention project of UMADAOP’s of Ohio. In QUADD he eagerly shares creative ideas about engaging peers in prevention eorts. In designing a campaign to send drug free messages on cases of water to Flint, Michigan, Joziah wrote the slogans used by his local YLP group,e Minority Youth Leadership Coalition.ese slogans were placed on cases of water as words of encouragement to communities impacted by the crisis. (We are sending gifts inside of jugs, with the simple message , not to do drugs; Keep pushing while dealing with the water and its wreckage, being drug free is our message; I cannot pick up the Pacic Ocean, but I can pray for you in my devotion). Additionally, this year he was selected to participate in the CADCA conference (Community Antidrug Coalition of America). While in Washington DC, alongside of his peers in QUAAD, he spoke with Senators and Legislators about issues involving crime and ATOD (Alcohol Tobacco and other Drug) issues in Ohio. is past July he was also a speaker for the Cleveland youth chapter of the NAACP annual luncheon where he spoke on issues regarding African American youth and social justice.
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