Troubled Teens Resources

Livonia is an example of a small town that is not playing ostrich when it comes to confronting the issue of teenage drug abuse. If you and your neighbors are seeing evidence of increasing drug traffic, arrests and fatalities in your town, you don’t have to wait for the state or the schools to provide a “task force.” You can create your own.

“The Livonia Save Our Youth Task Force is a grass roots effort to educate and empower the community in an effort to address the issues that affect the health and safety of our young people with a focus on alcohol and other drugs.”

It just takes a few good ideas and a few willing parents to get a project rolling. The Livonia group has created an online blog as an easily accessible educational resource for community parents. They have also produced an annual marathon to “run drugs out of town” and put some money in their coffers.

“Our purpose is twofold; to raise awareness about teen drug use and raise money for the Livonia Save Our Youth Task Force. Our focus is mainly on kids including teens. It is our aim to not merely present this to children, but to actively involve them, making this their issue.”

It may not be true that it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes the combined efforts of a “village” to safeguard their youth and present a united front against a culture of drugs and lawlessness.

“We are your neighbors, the kids down the street, the business owner up the street. We are the doctors who take care of you, the parents who care for you. We are the people who are affected by drug abuse as well as those who abuse drugs. We are everyone in the world.”
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