CADFY in downtown San Diego operates as a 501(c)(3) known formally as Community Alliances for Drug Free Youth, coordinating substance-prevention programming from the Comerica Bank Building on B Street. The organization builds coalitions among parents, schools, and community agencies to develop drug-free environments for young people, overlapping prevention-network territory with San Diego Youth Coalition on youth advocacy initiatives. CADFY holds federal System for Award Management registration, qualifying the organization to receive government grants and administer publicly funded prevention contracts across San Diego County. Coalition-building efforts focus on connecting families to existing intervention resources rather than running direct-service programs, a referral model that complements the mentorship approach of nonprofits such as Reality Changers. The organization's highest-impact work involves assembling multi-agency task forces that coordinate school districts, law enforcement, and public health departments around county-level youth substance-prevention strategies.