Urine testing your kids is a decision that parents should take seriously. Experts agree that testing teens for the wrong reasons can damage trust. However, under the right circumstances, drug tests can be a tool to prevent substance abuse...
3 Ideas for Red Ribbon Week for Your Middle School If you’re a teacher, a parent, or a principal, you’re probably gearing up for 2020’s national Red Ribbon Week. And if you’ve got middle school aged kids, you...
Doesn’t’ it feel as if some unseen force pressed play on Netflix so we are now collectively binge watching an endless season of “Life Now”’? Red, green and yellow are the primary hues that manage our mobility, The red...
Everything Is Going To Be Okay? My chair rolls sluggishly across the living room carpet in the spring of 2020. It is not the picture that was in my head a few months ago. In those intern scenarios...
Some parents at home with their adolescent or teen during quarantine are beginning to realize something is going on with their child besides anxiety about the pandemic and social distancing. A clue may lie in the vaping epidemic...
Vaping Toolkit Information for Parents
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...
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....
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...