Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention in Schools
We were honored last week to have Dan Harty return as a guest. Jody Niswender and Karen Kunz showed some of the old shirts for the 9 Health Fair and then showed the new ones provided by the Health Fair. Karen said we would have the Rotary emblem printed on the backs of the shirts to make us more recognizable as Rotarian volunteers. You are a volunteer aren’t you?
PROGRAM
The program for the day was presented by Rebecca Valentine. Valentine is a well known local writer who has become passionate about the drug and alcohol problems in our schools. She and some other concerned parents have started a group called Team Windsor CPP in cooperation with Colorado Prevention Partners (CPP). Both of these organizations are dedicated to working with communities to deal with high risk behaviors in students. Valentine said she became involved when her son came home from school and told her “ I can get any drug I want by lunchtime.”
The group recently bought 2500 handbooks about dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. They are intended to be put into the hands of all parents in the school district that have children in grades 4 through 12. The books were funded by donations or grants from CPP, the Town of Windsor, as well as other institutions and private donations. In addition, Valentine’s group added a letter in the back of the handbooks that shows a list of resources in the area. Valentine said they hold monthly meetings with the theme; “What can we do NOW?”
Another focus of the group is to hold Social Norming Campaigns to help kids and parents learn what is normal and what is out of bounds. WC CCP-Team Windsor and Weld County School District Re-4 are preparing drug and alcohol abuse prevention seminars. Handbook training dates are Feb 21, March 20, and April 17. You can call Rebecca Valentine at 970-886-8741 for more information.
QUIZ
Answer to last weeks question: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson died in a plane crash near Clearwater, Iowa on February 3, 1959.
Next question: Why were the employees at the Wal-Mart in Coos Bay, Oregon so upset with the panhandlers in the Wal-Mart parking lot this past week?
PROGRAM
The program for the day was presented by Rebecca Valentine. Valentine is a well known local writer who has become passionate about the drug and alcohol problems in our schools. She and some other concerned parents have started a group called Team Windsor CPP in cooperation with Colorado Prevention Partners (CPP). Both of these organizations are dedicated to working with communities to deal with high risk behaviors in students. Valentine said she became involved when her son came home from school and told her “ I can get any drug I want by lunchtime.”
The group recently bought 2500 handbooks about dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. They are intended to be put into the hands of all parents in the school district that have children in grades 4 through 12. The books were funded by donations or grants from CPP, the Town of Windsor, as well as other institutions and private donations. In addition, Valentine’s group added a letter in the back of the handbooks that shows a list of resources in the area. Valentine said they hold monthly meetings with the theme; “What can we do NOW?”
Another focus of the group is to hold Social Norming Campaigns to help kids and parents learn what is normal and what is out of bounds. WC CCP-Team Windsor and Weld County School District Re-4 are preparing drug and alcohol abuse prevention seminars. Handbook training dates are Feb 21, March 20, and April 17. You can call Rebecca Valentine at 970-886-8741 for more information.
QUIZ
Answer to last weeks question: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson died in a plane crash near Clearwater, Iowa on February 3, 1959.
Next question: Why were the employees at the Wal-Mart in Coos Bay, Oregon so upset with the panhandlers in the Wal-Mart parking lot this past week?
posted by Windsor Rotary Club (link to this post)
