Norma Norris Today’s adolescent hasn’t known a time when drugs were not a threat to the well-being of youth. After attending the nonprofit CANDLE, Inc.’s Reality Tour Drug Prevention Program, a 12 year-old wrote a thank you to the volunteers for “Helping us with a problem so scary it shouldn’t exist.” Youth attending Reality Tour are appreciative … Read more
Westmoreland Co. – For the past 8 years the Hempfield School District has placed an emphasis on educating families about drug prevention through partnership with the nonprofit CANDLE, Inc.’s Reality Tour. At 6th grade orientation this Thursday, the district’s three middle school schools will make an appeal to parents to take their child to one … Read more
Child Death Review Team The Child Death Review Team will once again present the Reality Tour on February 27th and March 27th from 1 to 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Milford. The Child Death Review Team reviews all deaths occurring in Pike County from birth to 21 years in order to determine … Read more
By BENJAMIN BROJAKOWSKI For The Pocono Record November 14, 2011 12:00 AM The Child Death Review Team presented The Reality Tour at the First Presbyterian Church in Milford on Saturday. The Child Death Review Team is a group of community-based organizations that review all deaths in Pike County of residents between birth and age 21. … Read more
By Greg Reinbold Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, 8:55 p.m. The Blairsville Support Group Against Drugs will be collaborating with the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission to bring members of the community face-to-face with the realities of drug addiction. Beginning Oct. 15, the Blairsville support group will operate the Candle, Inc. Reality Tour program under the … Read more
I am pleased to be a presenter at the Federal Employees Opioid Addiction Training on June 20th in Pittsburgh to inform on the Reality Tour Parent/Child Drug Prevention Program. So often the prevention aspect is overlooked on this topic. Thanks to Tamara Ivosevic Perconte, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board for extending the … Read more
Ready, set, evaluate! If only it was that simple to follow the science. It’s not like you can go to Angie’s List and hire a researcher for prevention programs. You have to partner with a university and it would be ever so much better if you had a boatload of money before you made an … Read more
We assume that youth are confident they will remain drug-free after making a promise to do so… Whether the promise was personal or made in a public setting via an activity, youth in middle school are ready to make this commitment. But, just ask them if they think keeping that promise could be difficult. See how many … Read more
A Taste of Pittsburgh Magazine Online Source. In 2000 when heroin made headlines in Butler, PA there weren’t any prevention programs to help parents. Since 2003 a grassroots parent/child interactive program called Reality Tour has filled that gap. You may have never heard of it because the small non-profit CANDLE, Inc. (Community Action for Drug-free … Read more
Recent points were raised with PA’s DDAP on the lack of prevention for families in the general public. CANDLE is suggesting the state must broaden their scope. Presently only 12 PA communities receive the state’s preferred family prevention 7 week program. Only 15 families attend at a time and the program does not talk about drugs. The sessions … Read more