Asset Building Tip of the Month:
Positive Values
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Caring Young person places high value on helping other people.
Equality & Social Justice...high value on promoting equality and reducing hunger and poverty.Integrity...acts on convictions and stands up for her or his beliefs.Honesty... "tells the truth even when it is not easy."
Restraint... accepts and takes personal responsibility.Responsibility...believes it is important not to be sexually active or to use alcohol or other drugs. |
The 40 Developmental Assets
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OMOP
promotes & integrates Search Institute's Developmental AssetsŪ approach in our programming to further positive youth development in Portland.
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April 6-12, 2009:
National Public Health Week
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"Most people don't realize the impact that Public Health has on their
lives, but there are examples all around you. Public Health isn't something that matters to someone else - Public
Health is your health."
Look for these stickers or get your own, take pics & add 'em to the interactive Flickr site!
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May 7, 2009: National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
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A day for SAMHSA and the initiatives and communities it supports to promote positive youth development, resilience, recovery, and the transformation of mental health services delivery for children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families.
Visit the site FMI
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Our next OMOP meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14 from 12:00p - 1:30p at Portland City Hall.
Join us as we discuss POSITIVE TICKETS and our new target launch date of July 1, 2009! As always, lunch will be provided.
RSVP Ronni -
(207) 756-8116
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"To foster nurturing and healthy relationships, environments and programs that encourage positive youth development and enable all young people in Greater Portland to live substance free."
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April is National Alcohol Awareness Month
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 Raising Healthy Kids:
Strategies for the Whole Community
7:00-8:30 pm
South Portland High School Auditorium
Presenter Dr. Dennis Embry will outline how our current policies and practices are harmful to our youth, and how we can use just four simple, scientifically proven strategies to better the futures of all children.
Dr. Embry is a nationally acclaimed child psychologist whose
work has taken him from Sesame Street to the Secretary of Defense with stops in
between. He is a National Research Advisory Council Senior Fellow and a
scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Intervention and the
national Center on Early Adolescence, an author of evidence-based prevention
programs, and an advocate raising healthy kids using community-wide
support. Find Dr. Embry on the web: YouTube, Facebook, PaxTalk (Blog), Paxis Institute This event is being sponsored by 21 Reasons, Real Life. Real Talk., PROP/Communities Promoting Health Coalition, Healthy Communities of the Capitol Area, Sebasticook Valley Healthy
Communities Coalition and the City of Portland Public Health Division.
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 An Event Series with Gina Ogden
Sponsored by Real Life. Real Talk., Hardy Girls, Healthy Women, TrueNorth Health Center and MaineHealth Learning Resource Center
Friday April 3, 9:00am-2:00pm
TrueNorth Health Ctr, Falmouth
Sexuality and Health,
Women & Girls: A Training for Health Professionals
Cost: $60/$50 RLRT members (discounts available) ~ Register HERE
Friday April 3, 7:00-8:00 pm
MMC Dana Center, Portland
Book Lecture: The
Heart and Soul of Sex
Cost: Free ~ Register HERE
Saturday April 4, 10:00am-3:00pm
TrueNorth Health Ctr, Falmouth
Real Life...Girl Talk:
A Conversation with Women and Girls. Cost: Women: $35/Girls: $15 (scholarships available) ~ Register HERE
 Maine Youth Action Network's 5th Annual Anti-Tobacco Summit:
Stop. Quit. RESIST!April 30 & May 1, 2009 Augusta Civic Center
This
two day long event is absolutely FREE
and mobilizes youth from grades 7-12 from across Maine to come together with
adult activists to fight the battle against tobacco. Learn more about this year's keynote speaker, Rick Stoddard at www.rickstoddard.com and check out the MYAN/Youth Summit Brochure
Boys to Men 9th Annual
Conference:
Standing Together to Prevent
Substance  Abuse & Promote
Wellness
May 21,
2009 USM, Portland
Boys to Men would like to invite boys in
middle school and high school and their adult male role models to attend the 9th
annual conference. Join boys from across Maine for a day packed with youth
performances, a keynote address, workshops, videos, and more.
FMI: www.boysconference.org
Exercise for Health and Love
 May 30, 2009 Portland Expo Center
The purpose of this event is to provide diabetes
education, prevention, detection and outreach, to improve physical activity and
lifestyle, and to celebrate the community assets of Portland's multicultural communities. FMI Contact the MInority Health Program's Nelida Berke at 874-8452.
Search Institute's HC*HY  Conference
November 5-7, 2009 (Cincinnati, OH)
The conference is designed for and by youth and community development
practitioners as a place of inspiration, strengthening, deepening, and
connecting. Learn more about this year's theme: Successful Practices: Surviving to Thriving |
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