Tag: alcohol

Family Corner 5/25/16

Producer/Host: Sue Mackey Andrews
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Making a Difference in our Communities

Program Topic: Talking with our Kids about Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs and other Substances

Key Discussion Points:
a) Important to start talking with kids as early as toddler-age about what’s going on in our world, environment
b) Take advantage of the teachable moment – e.g., the cigarette butt on the ground, or seeing someone who is smoking
c) Learn with your child – go on websites, read, learn and talk together

Guest: Tata Young, Community Health Program Coordinator with Healthy Acadia

FMI:

http://www.maineparents.net/Talking/index.htm

http://www.drugfree.org/MJTalkKit/

Home

http://www.samhsa.gov/underage-drinking/mobile-application

http://healthyacadia.org/

Common Health 5/21/14

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Alcohol, Drugs and Health

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is the current status of alcohol and drug use in Maine?
b) What are some of the leading risk and protective factors?
c) What are some health consequences of substance abuse?
d) What programs do we have now to deal with these challenges?

Guests:
Denise Black, Drug Free Communities Project Coordinator
Denise is responsible for coordinating Healthy Acadia’s Drug Free Communities Grant denise@healthyacadia.org.
Chris Thornton, Officer, Hancock County Sheriff’s Department
Chris works with the Hancock County Drug Prevention Task Force and Alcohol Enforcement Team.
Patti Murphy, M.Ed., LADC, CCS  Aroostook Mental Health

Talk of the Towns 4/23/10

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Topic: Resiliency as a strategy to combat underage drinking and substance abuse
Guests: David Savage, Hannah Boyce, Abby Jewett, Robert Colson students at MDI High School, engaged in service learning work, Jessica Naylor, Substance Abuse Counselor, Open Door, Ed Oechslie, Executive Director, Acadia Family Center and MDI Drug and Alcohol Group