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Hello
Susie,
“Summertime
and the livin’ is easy!”
Nevertheless, we never stop
looking for good prevention
updates to keep you informed!
This issue of the LEGACY News
of Hope is dedicated to
“Communities Who are Making
a Concrete Difference!”
Look for: |
| 1. |
Community
Groups Replace Beer Company
as County Fair Sponsor
A first for county fairs! |
| 2. |
Connecticut
Addresses A Real Issue --
Stress Induced Drinking
in Youth:
More and more, we hear teens
oppressed by stress
and looking for a way out
– sometimes, any way
out. . . |
| 3. |
Minnesota
Lawmakers Pass .08 Law:
The LAST state to lower
the legal drinking limit! |
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Missouri
Receiving Accolades for
Approach to Youth Prisons:
Watch for more articles
on what really works to
rehabilitate wayward youth
in 2004. Every community
can benefit from encouraging
these approaches! |
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WHERE
WE'VE BEEN RECENTLY...
May thru June, Susie was privileged
to keynote for 3 outstanding rehab
institutions (and, yes, her tan
is developing nicely!):
Hazelden’s Women Healing
Conference in West Palm Beach,
Florida; The Betty Ford Center’s
Women’s Conference in Palm
Springs, California; Bellwood
Health Services 20th Anniversary
Celebration in Toronto, Canada.
Both LEGACY OF HOPE and DE-STRESS
FOR SUCCESS engaged, entertained
and enlightened teachers during
Monongalia County School District
of West Virginia's Project ENRICH,
a week long staff development
held for the past 7 years!
And lastly, Susie presented
for the Orange County Juvenile
Drug Court youth and families.
She has worked with Orange County
Juvenile Probation and Juvenile
Drug Court for a number of years.
The dedicated and determined
efforts of Judge Hudson have
helped the system to divert
youth committing crimes in relation
to and as a result of drug habits
to rehab and change rather than
a life of repeated, if not permanent,
incarceration.
Watch for more info in future
on the positive impact of Juvenile
Drug Courts in upcoming newsletters.
(Pictures, from left-palm trees
of West Palm Beach; Patricia
Broat - Hazelden conference
coordinator with Susie; teachers
enjoying literally putting their
feet up in the De-Stress for
Success workshop!)
Now we invite you to browse,
be encouraged, and contemplate
how you might adapt ideas from
the concrete action of other
communities to yours!
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Community
Groups Replace Beer Company
as County Fair Sponsor |
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coalition of community groups
in Marin, California replaced
Miller Brewing Company as
the title sponsor of the
Marin County Fair, reflecting
concerns that the brewer’s
sponsorship promotes underage
drinking. “This
is a first in the fair
industry; it’s never
been done before,”
said Jim Farley, the county’s
deputy director of cultural
and visitor services,
which manages the fair.
“Summer fairs traditionally
turn to beer companies
to sponsor their entertainment
pavilions.” |
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had sponsored the fair for the
past six years, but the community
coalition, called Play Fair,
stepped in this year. “The
Play Fair coalition feels that
a family-oriented family fair
should be associated with pro-health
messages, not beer messages,”
said Amon Rapport, a spokesman
for the Marin Institute.
State health
statistics show that in Marin
County, the percentage of youth
who drink is nearly twice the
national average and 10 percent
higher than the rest of California.
Binge-drinking rates among teens
and adults are also higher in
other areas of the state.
Although
Miller’s banner was not
displayed at the fair and its
logo did not appear on advertisements
or fair tickets, the brewer
was still allowed to sell beer
at the July 1-5 event.
- From the
Marin Independent Journal, June
24, 2004 |
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Connecticut
Addresses the Real Issue: Stress
Induces Drinking in Youth
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Experts
say that children are drinking
at a younger age to deal
with the pressures of having
to succeed, so schools and
communities in Connecticut
are looking at new ways
to discourage underage drinking,
the New York Times reported
June 20. “I
think it’s a reaction
to the stress they have,”
said Amy Jonsson, a guidance
counselor at Ridgefield’s
East Ridge Middle School.
“Even in the sixth
grade, parents are talking
about [high school] math
placement.” In Westport,
nonprofit organizations
and town and school officials
are working with parents
to assist them in recognizing
what is pushing their
children to turn to alcohol. |
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New Haven’s Sheridan Communications
and Technology Middle School,
a team from Waterbury Hospital
presents a show called “The
Hard Truth” about drinking
and driving. “We’re
trying to hit them up front,
before they drive or ride with
a driver who is drinking,”
said Thomas McCarthy, the school’s
principal.
In other
schools, parents have joined
the “Community of Concern”
program that encourages parents
to call each other to check
on their children’s after-school
activities. Glastonbury, yet
another community, conducts
a “Safe Rides” program
that provides confidential rides
on the weekends to teenagers
and their passengers who have
been drinking.
- From the New York Times, June
20, 2004 |
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Minnesota Lawmakers Pass .08 Law |
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The
Minnesota General Assembly has
passed a bill to lower the state’s
drunk driving standard from 0.10
percent blood-alcohol content
to 0.08 percent beginning on Aug.
1, 2005. Some lawmakers resisted
the change, saying small counties
and cities don’t have
the resources to enforce the
lower standard. The compromise
bill delays the law until 2005
to allow the legislature to
find money to address enforcement
costs. |
If
the bill becomes a law, Delaware
would be the only remaining state
with a 0.10 percent drunk-driving
standard.
- From the Saint Paul Pioneer
Press, March 16, 2004 |
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Missouri
Receiving Accolades for Approach
to Youth Prisons
Rather
than a punishment-oriented system,
Missouri’s youth prisons
promote small group discussion,
therapy and caring.
In
Missouri’s youth prisons,
dorms replace jail cells. Beanbag
chairs, potted plants, stuffed
animals, and smiley-face comforters
are the norm instead of handcuffs,
razor-wire fences, and uniforms.
Inmates are referred to as “kids”
and guards are called “youth
specialists.”
“The
old corrections model was a
failure; most kids left us worse
off than when they came in.”
said Mark Steward, the chief
of Missouri’s youth penal
system. “Now we focus
on treatment, on making connections
with these guys and showing
them another way. It works.”
“It’s all about
high quality treatment in an
intimate setting,” says
Barry Krisberg president of
the National Council on Crime
and Delinquency.
Recidivism rates at Missouri’s
juvenile prisons in low compared
with other states. According
to a 2003 study, of the 1,400
teens released from Missouri’s
program in 1999, only 8 percent
were incarcerated in adult prisons.
Missouri’s system also
saves the state money, costing
about $43,000 a year per child.
California is looking to replicate
Missouri’s program and
several states have already
launched similar programs to
Missouri’s, including
Louisiana, Georgia, Maryland,
New Jersey, and Illinois.
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From the Los Angeles Times,
July 1, 2004
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