Ray DiCiccio, M.S.W.
CASBIRT Director

Mr. DiCiccio received his Masters degree in Social Work from San Diego State University in 1997. He has been awarded over $12 million of service and evaluation contracts from San Diego County, California Office of Traffic Safety, and the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. He is currently the Executive Director of the San Diego County Alcohol Policy Panel, a coalition of community leaders and youth advocates committed to reducing binge and underage drinking and related problems since 1994. As Executive Director of the Policy Panel he has been responsible for developing and coordinating the San Diego County Underage Drinking Initiative (UDI). Mr. DiCiccio's expertise in organizational development and community organizing was instrumental in making the UDI a sophisticated, award winning prevention system with regional structures that support an environmental approach to addressing underage drinking. Those regional structures include a College Presidents Forum, a Law Enforcement Task Force, a Youth Council and several issue focused workgroups. In addition, he is the State Discretionary Manager for the Office of Juvenile Delinquency Prevention's, Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Discretionary Projects in California. The EUDL projects are duplicating the San Diego County UDI strategies in multiple California communities. Mr. DiCiccio also works with substance abuse treatment centers to improve organizational and programmatic effectiveness and efficiency, counselor effectiveness and program evaluation. Mr. DiCiccio was recently named the Program Director of the California Screening and Brief Intervention Project (CASBRIT).

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