Parents of At-Risk Teens Targeted
Teens at risk have inspired communities across the nation to provide a variety of teen crisis intervention programs at a grass roots level. Such a program is just now being launched in a small Ohio town.
“Eighth-grader Dylan Weaver said he sees a problem with drinking and drug abuse among his peers.
Weaver, of Pickerington, found a way to get involved in curbing that problem when his Pataskala youth group joined the Consortium for a Drug Free Licking County.
The Jersey Baptist Church youth group took part in focus groups to help tailor the message of the consortium’s “Be Unstoppable” campaign, which will launch across the county in the next few days.”
The campaign will actually target parents in it’s initial thrust, noting that parents indifferent to or ignorant of drug culture and teen drug use need a wake up call.
“… the consortium is targeting parents first because too often all of the pressure for preventing drug and alcohol abuse is put on youth.
“Finally, we realized we have to have the parents in this with us. They’re on the front lines,” McCloud said. “It’s not fair to put the whole burden on the kids.”
Parents will receive postcards with tips about how to keep their kids away from drugs and alcohol. It also will lead parents to the campaign’s Web site, www.beunstoppable.us, for more in-depth information on drug and alcohol abuse…”
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It is interesting to note that the proposed campaign has provoked controversy, as represented in the comments. Some feel money is better directed at improving schools and parents ought to be able to cope without programs to supplement their efforts.
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