For Communities, Parents and Schools
Child Death Review Team presents drug prevention program in Milford
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
Anti-drug support group brings Reality Tour to Blairsville
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
Disrupting to Address the Gap in Drug Prevention
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
Excuse me. Your expiration date is showing.
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
Assuming Too Much in Drug Epidemic
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
Helping Communities Take Care Of Their Own
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
PA Needs Prevention for All Families
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
Reality Tour Best Practice Awards!
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
Encouraging Words from a Parent
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 supporters weigh in…
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