Dr. Leona Eggert, RY/CAST Developer, Featured in News 
Dr. Leona (Lee) Eggert, developer of the Reconnecting Youth and CAST Programs, and President of RY Inc., was recently featured in NEWS-Line for Nurses. In this candid article, she discusses the motivations, challenges and rewards of her life work and shares personal insights about prevention research in general. Read the article... |
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RY and CAST Selected for Excellence
The following Evidence-Based and Best Practice Registries have listed Reconnecting Youth, CAST, or both, as programs that work!
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| NEW: Bulk Order Discounts
We have reduced the price of all of our curriculum materials when ordered in bulk. This includes RY and CAST Curriculum sets as well as RY and CAST Student Workbooks. Order now to take advantage of this offer.
Orders of 10-49 are 10% off! 50-99 are 20% off! 100+ are 30% off!
Please print and fax your completed PO to 888-352-2819. You may also order through our office, by phone (425-861-1177) or email (merridy@reconnectingyouth.com).
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Keokuk County Schools Tactics on Alcohol Abuse Reduction (KC STAAR) is a Safe and Drug Free Schools grant-funded program to reduce alcohol  abuse within the four schools in Keokuk County, Iowa. KC STAAR selected Reconnecting Youth three years ago, as part of their efforts to reach that goal. Called "Life Connections" locally, RY is currently in three schools, and will have reached nearly 60 students by the end of this year. Lynne Zoulek, KC STAAR Project Director, spoke to us last month and shared their success stories, a student-made video, and testimonials from the RY students. Get the whole story here...
 The Reconnecting Youth program was adopted at Highland High School in Sparta, Ohio in January of 2003, as a result of being awarded a Grant to Reduce Alcohol Abuse. Since then, over 800 at-risk students have taken the course as the program has spread to six rural and urban high schools, including one alternative school, in central Ohio. According to Pam Duffy, Prevention Coordinator for Maryhaven, the community healthcare provider implementing the program for the schools, "Our program (we call it "Positive Leadership") has been successful because teachers and staff have seen a change in student behavior and grades because of RY." Read on to discover Pam's tips for making RY a success...
 In 2008, Red Mesa Unified School District was awarded a Grant to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (GRAA) and chose to adopt Reconnecting Youth to support targeted at-risk youth at their two high schools. In accordance with the design, students took RY voluntarily and to fulfill an elective credit. Benita McKerry, the RY Coordinator for Red Mesa USD, made a short video about RY on her reservation. Watch the video! She also wrote us about her experience with RY. Read what Benita says about RY in the Navajo community...
Everyone loves hearing your success stories. Please let us know if you have an inspirational RY or CAST story you'd like others to know about, and we may be able to include it in a future newsletter.
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| Prevention in the News | |
Suicide Prevention Task Forces Focus on LGBT Youth, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Military/Veterans WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention...added three new task forces to address suicide prevention efforts within high-risk populations: American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN); youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT); and military service members and veterans. This brings to six the number of task forces formed by the Action Alliance, the public-private partnership forged in September to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP). Read the entire article...
Captain America combats suicide through awareness
 Marvel Comics has released Captain America: A Little Help, a free digital comic book. Tim Ursiny, a psychologist, wrote the story and Nick Dragotta illustrated it.
The moving all-new story features a young man contemplating suicide who happens to be in the right place to help Captain America defeat villains. The digital book ends with the youth calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to seek help. Read Captain America: A Little Help. |
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Testimonials
We're proud to share these quotes from some 2010 Leader Training participants:
"This was, by far, one of the best, most informative, most interesting and most motivating trainings I've ever been to!"
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-Seattle, WA
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