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February 20
High School Drug Awareness for Parents

The four Saint John area high schools joined forces a year ago to provide their parents with information sessions on a variety of pressing topics that are facing youth today.  Because we feel this information is very important to hear and impacts our young people regardless of which school they attend, we wanted to extend the invite to other high schools within our region to our upcoming Drug Awareness presentation.  We have also had interest from several parents of middle school students so we decided to extend our invite to parents of this age group as well.  If you feel this session will be of interest to your parent community, please feel free to share our event with them.  We are confident your parents too will find the evening’s speakers interesting, informative and see the importance of us being proactive in understanding the effect drugs are having in our community and the risk to our youth.
 
 
It Takes a Village to Raise a Teen:
DRUG AWARENESS - What Parents Need to Know!
 
Date: Monday, February 27th , 2017
(Snow Date: Thursday, March 2nd)
 
Time: 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30)
 
Location: St. Malachy’s High School Auditorium
Refreshments will be served.
 
Topics:
• The Drug Environment in Saint John: What is out there, what does it look
like, what does it do?, etc. - Community Services Unit, Saint John Police Force
• What Happens to the Brain? Marijuana use and its affect on the developing
youth brain - Dr. Tunde, Psychiatrist specializing in youth addictions
• A Personal Story: The journey from drug dependancy to recovery - Nathalie,
a 2015 graduate of Portage Atlantic, a drug rehabilitation centre
 
 

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