[CCHS] Chit-Chat, Friday, March 30, 2007

[Chit-Chat]

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Friday, March 30, 2007*
2006-07 Edition
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*+++++** PARENTAL SPRING FLING** * *+++++*
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*Spring is here and with spring comes the end of the school year 
parties, celebrations and proms.  In our towns, our young people may 
seek to enhance these experiences by taking some form of a recreational 
substance (alcohol, marijuana, club drugs, heroin). On *Tuesday, April 
3, from 7:15 to 9 p.m. in the CCHS auditorium*, the Concord Carlisle 
Parent Initiative (CCPI) is offering a popular presentation to teach 
strategies to parents about teen alcohol use. The presentation will 
include how and why it's important to postpone and intervene and how 
parents may intentionally influence their kids decisions about use from 
a very early age and into young adulthood. Renee Soulis, a Senior 
Prevention Specialist from FCD Educational Services is coming back by 
popular demand to present research about use and our kids. She will 
discuss the effects on teenage brains, the sequence of initiation into 
and progression of use, the social and cultural pressures students are 
likely to face at CCHS and in college, and offer strategies to parents 
for the prevention, postponement and intervention of use. Kathy Bowen 
the CPS & CCRSD K-12 Health Curriculum Specialist will present the 
incidence of use in our towns as 6th-12th graders reported on the Spring 
2006 Youth at Risk Behavior Survey. This Program is funded through the 
Northwest Suburban Health Alliance/CHNA 15 DoN funds through Lahey Clinic.

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