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
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
Congratulations go out to two of our Reality Tour sites in Pennsylvania! Jefferson County, PA Reality Tour – Brockway School District Superintendent, Mr. Dan Hawkins and Reality Tour volunteer Fran Morelli Jr. made an effort to increase attendance for their Reality Tour’s this month by personally calling parents who haven’t turned in their registration forms. They … Read more
CANDLE, Inc. Board Member & Seneca Valley School District Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Matthew McKinley received this email from a parent who attended the Mars Reality Tour (Thursday, February 11, 2016). Thank you for sharing this with us Dr. McKinley! These words have inspired us all to keep doing Reality Tour, despite the state’s criticism levied … Read more
Reality Tour will continue in Westmoreland County – Tribune Review Article Reality Tour has always embraced the opportunity to fill the gap that exists in prevention. The gap between programs offered and what the public actually wants and will attend. It is easily recognized that parents and the general public are under-served populations in prevention. The Tribune … Read more
Click here to review DDAP history with Reality Tour Innovation in prevention is getting to be the hot topic as communities struggle to push back against an epidemic that demands that we do things differently. Someone said to me not long ago, “Reality Tour was ahead of its time.” I am thinking, “No way. We … Read more
Chronology of PA DDAP Reality Tour issues We are more than a decade of descent into the current epidemic of drug abuse and those that we counted on to give us, yet nothing has changed in drug prevention in what ‘science’ is handing down. I had two misconceptions when I entered the realm of prevention: … Read more
Review of DDAP’s Scare Tactics & 15 Families at a time approach to heroin epidemic. Pike County, PA – volunteers have been educating families in Pike County through Reality Tour since 2012. Their most recent Reality Tour was held on on November 19, 2015. Tour Director, Jill Gamboni, later received an email from a parent … Read more