QAC Goes Purple is an initiative from the Queen Anne's County Office of the Sheriff and Queen Anne's County Drug-Free Coalition, in partnership with the Opioid Intervention Team/QAC Department of Health, Queen Anne's County Public Schools, Queen Anne County Commissioners, and Mid-Shore Community Foundation. The substance abuse awareness and prevention program empowers our youth and our community to ‘Go Purple’ as a sign of taking a stand against substance abuse.

The project promotes education and awareness, including the creation of purple clubs in our middle and high schools, through which students learn they do not need drugs or alcohol to meet life’s challenges.

The first clubs are in QAC and Kent Island high schools and we are working to expand to middle schools at some point.