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The
Student
Alliance For Education (SAFE) Center provides additional programs
for Abraxas students. SAFE is made
possible by a grant from Alliance Healthcare Foundation. For
details please refer to "Resources" section.
New
Resource to Help Parents Confront Youth Drug Use
Treatment Research
Institute
Treatment
Research Institute Provides the Science Behind Interactive "How To"
Resource Developed by the Partnership for a Drug Free America
Parents
who feel helpless when they see (or think they see) signs of drug or
alcohol use in their kids have a new place to turn, thanks to Time to
Act, a science-based multi-media resource offering compassionate but
actionable tips for parents trying to comprehend or "do something" when
things don't look right to them.
Available
now at the web site of the Partnership for a Drug Free America, "Time
to Act" brings to life scientific knowledge for
parents who suspect or know something
is wrong but don't know where to
turn or what to do.
Using
multi-media and other user-friendly techniques, the innovative resource
employs "branching" strategies that build upon parents' own state of
awareness about their child's situation, with specific suggested actions
for them to follow. The recommendations are straightforward,
science-based, and delivered by experts as well as other parents who've
seen, heard and experienced it all.
"Time to
Act embodies the view that parents can be one of the most effective
agents of response to youth drug and alcohol use, provided you give them
the tools to do the job they are inherently equipped to do," said A.
Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., chief executive of the Treatment Research
Institute. With research and survey findings suggesting that parents
remain extremely influential in an adolescent's life, Time to Act
channels parents' own instincts toward effective action, he said.
Rex
Kennemer was honored as the Abraxas
and PUSD Volunteer of the Year at the PUSD board meeting on Monday
June 25 2007.
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