Now or Later: Drug Task Force Challenges Parents and Students to Look to the Future

Based on a Press Release from the Southington Drug Task Force.
 
The program will be presented on Monday, June 10, 2013 at the Joaeph A. DePaolo Middle School on Pleasant Street in Southington, CT. by the Southington Drug Task Force.

The 3-Screen film will encourage and challenge parents and students to proactively change their future. The program is open to the pubic. Admission is Free.

Members of several area community groups will be present to speak one-on-one with parents starting at 6:30 p.m. with a special movie from 7:15 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The program, made possible by a grant from the Substance Abuse Action Council, offers compelling information and stories, some tragic, on the hazards to which our young people are regularly exposed in today's culture.

Guest speakers, one-on-one meetings with parents and the film will address the cultural hazards that can negatively influence the future, ways to avoid and overcome Abuse of Prescription Drugs, Alcohol Poisoning, Cyber Bullying, Overcoming Obstacles and Bullying.
The goal of the Now or Later program is three-fold, according to task force member and program advocate, Trish Kenefick.

Encourage communication between parents and children.  Get children ready for school in the fall.  To keep kids safe! 

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"In a culture that is always promising and often delivering new and better ways of doing things, there are some things that cannot change, and others that should not change," Kenefick said in a press release. "Many rules are really only about timing: 'Is this a good thing for now or is this something that will be better later'?"

Should negative influences be the task of government and private agencies alone.  Or is it not time to provide our kids and parents the strongest case we can make for deterrence of endangerment of their future?