[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 136 (Monday, September 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 26, 1994]
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                     RECOGNIZING SHIRLEY D. COLETTI

  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I have the pleasure today of recognizing the 
achievements of a truly outstanding Florida citizen.
  Shirley D. Coletti is the president of Operation PAR, an organization 
in the Tampa Bay area that seeks to help others build a better life for 
themselves. But her responsibilities as president have extended far 
beyond the scope of the Tampa Bay area. In 1986, Shirley was appointed 
by President Reagan to the U.S. Senate Caucus on International 
Narcotics Control and in 1991 she served on the bipartisan President's 
Commission of Model State Drug Laws. She has also served as a Special 
Representative on behalf of the State Department, traveling to several 
countries including Australia, Thailand, Trinidad, and Nepal.
  Shirley continues to dedicate her life to serving her fellow 
Americans. As the president of Operation PAR, Shirley has moved the 
organization from a grass roots parent movement to one of the largest 
and most comprehensive nonprofit substance abuse prevention and 
treatment agencies in North America.
  The board of directors of Operation PAR, has chosen to recognize her 
25 years of service by renaming the Academy for Behavioral Change for 
Adolescents and Their Families to the Shirley D. Coletti Academy.
  The Shirley D. Coletti Academy will provide troubled young people 
ages 11-17 hope for a better life. Through a combination of strong 
academics with results-oriented emotional growth, it will seek to 
address the gaps created due to the abuse of drugs and alcohol. It will 
provide vocational, educational, and recreational services to our 
youth, and focus on the treatment of the individual and the family to 
help them both find healing.
  Mr. President, Shirley D. Coletti is truly a champion of youth, 
adults, and families fighting the disease of drug addiction. She is a 
pioneer in the prevention and treatment field and an advocate in the 
fight against illegal drug use. Florida is fortunate to have her 
working for such a worthy cause.

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