What's in your teen's bedroom?
SPHS Connect Inc. and the Washington Family Center are sponsoring a program this week to educate parents about various forms of drugs and the peer pressures facing student to use them.
A mock bedroom of a teen serves as a backdrop for the two-hour presentation. Parents will enter the bedroom that has been set up as a teenage drug user’s room. Parents will be asked to identify drug and paraphernalia items in the bedroom.
Throughout the presentation, more than 60 trendy drug and alcohol indicators will be unveiled to show how adolescents hide drug and alcohol use from their parents.
Signs, symptoms and current trends of alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, prescription drugs, cocaine and heroin will also be presented.
Throughout the program, live role-playing demonstrations will occur to help parents initiate conversations with their children and to show parents ways they can help their children beat peer pressure.
There will be three programs, all from 6 to 8 p.m. One will be Tuesday at the Beth Center High School auditorium. The second will be Wednesday at the Bentworth High School auditorium. The third will be Thursday at the Washington Park auditorium.
Contact the Washington Family Center at 724-229-7410 to pre-register. The program is free but pre-registration is required. Child care will be provided for school-age children
A mock bedroom of a teen serves as a backdrop for the two-hour presentation. Parents will enter the bedroom that has been set up as a teenage drug user’s room. Parents will be asked to identify drug and paraphernalia items in the bedroom.
Throughout the presentation, more than 60 trendy drug and alcohol indicators will be unveiled to show how adolescents hide drug and alcohol use from their parents.
Signs, symptoms and current trends of alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, prescription drugs, cocaine and heroin will also be presented.
Throughout the program, live role-playing demonstrations will occur to help parents initiate conversations with their children and to show parents ways they can help their children beat peer pressure.
There will be three programs, all from 6 to 8 p.m. One will be Tuesday at the Beth Center High School auditorium. The second will be Wednesday at the Bentworth High School auditorium. The third will be Thursday at the Washington Park auditorium.
Contact the Washington Family Center at 724-229-7410 to pre-register. The program is free but pre-registration is required. Child care will be provided for school-age children
Labels: Teen drug use
posted by Dawn Keller at
5:07 PM
2 Comments:
sounds like a good way to educate parents. i know by the time my son's a teen, what my friends back in high school used to do is old news, and there are always new ways. definitely not something to blow off. think this area needs something like that!! i think sometimes parents are too much in denial when it comes to their own children.
I am attending the Washington program and am looking forward to it. I'll write about it and post about it on here.
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