Marilyn Bader

Marilyn is the Prevention Training Coordinator for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - St. Louis Area (NCADA). In this position, she coordinates and trains a wide variety of programming for youth, adults, community members, and school staff. This includes such topics as: Resilience skill development, student assistance programming and implementation, support group facilitation, group dynamics, community development and mobilization, cross-age education, peer helping and mentoring, conflict mediation for grades 6 through adult, action planning, and a broad range of topics related to the addiction disease and systemic impact.

Marilyn's experience ranges from direct student service programming at the local level to working with community teams throughout the eastern region of Missouri. She has done extensive training in Missouri was well as other training programs at the national level.

Marilyn has served in a variety of leadership capacities both in the prevention field and beyond. She has served as Chair of the Congregations Services Steering Committee and the Board for Youth Services for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.