Thursday, July 16, 2009
3:30pm-5:30pm United Way of Santa Cruz County Community Conference Room 1220 41st Avenue, Capitola
Announcement:
Know any Community Heroes?
The form to nominate a Community Hero for 2009 is now available at www.unitedwaysc.org and can be submitted via email, fax or hard copy). The deadline for nominations is, July 10th, 2009.
Event:
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE CLASSES FOR PARENTS WITH
CHILDREN UNDER 12
July 9 - July 23, 2009
4 Thursday evenings 6:30-8:30 pm
At the Live Oak Family Resource Center (Classroom in the back of the building) $25 for the 4-week series Pre-registration required by June 30 (Classes fill quickly)
Learn new ways to understand your children's behavior
Learn ways to encourage your children to cooperate and become more capable
2009 : Curbing HIV/AIDS Transmission Among High Risk Minority Youth and Adolescents (CHAT) by Utilizing a Peer-to-Peer Outreach Model and New Application Technologies
In a variety of youth service sectors, leaders have urged increasing utilization of more strength-based approaches with young adults. Gradually, strength-oriented approaches are beginning to appear among the evidence-base of effective youth programs, but much more needs to be done to assure that a strength-based approach is part of the foundation of youth work.
Fifth-grade students who took part in comprehensive, interactive school-based prevention programs starting as early as first grade were half as likely as their peers to use alcohol or other drugs, act out violently, or engage in sexual activity, according to a new study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
ScienceDaily (June 11, 2009) - Should parents allow their teenage children to drink alcohol? Restaurants in Germany can legally sell alcohol to a teenager after his sixteenth birthday, and French children drink wine with dinner in the home starting at an early age. But U.S. parents who try to follow this relaxed European example, believing it fosters a healthier attitude towards alcohol, should be careful about giving alcohol to their children -- it may increase the likelihood that they binge drink in college.
GIVE...
...A round of applause to Project CURB for being recognized by UWA!
