SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION Minigrants
The Healthy Valley Alliance awarded 10 minigrants to schools for substance abuse prevention. Besides helping fund a "Facing History and Ourselves" Program in Youngstown, the group awarded money to help fund the projects below:
Austintown: videos on drugs, drinking and sex to be used in eighth-grade programs, and a "giant cigarette" with tobacco information to be used for a student skit.
Boardman High School: an in-service for staff and parents on the current drugs of choice.
Cardinal Mooney High School: a one-day "Character, Making a Habit of Doing the Right Thing" workshop for students in leadership roles.
Jackson-Milton Junior High School: the Ohio Department of Natural Resources "Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs" program for seventh-graders to give students a day of fishing, an activity they can use as an alternative to drugs.
The Mahoning County Educational Service Center: "Creating a Happy, Healthy Family: A Blueprint for the Homefront" speaker for parents throughout the county.
The Mollie Kessler School: to send four students to a peer mediation camp and to present a peer mediation program at the school.
Poland Seminary High School: to develop a student assistance team/peer mediation program.
Sebring McKinley Junior/Senior High School: to implement a "Project Alert" in junior high health classes, send two high school students to a peer mediation camp and send several SADD members to a team-building course.
Struthers High School: a rally with a speaker and prizes and a skit at the Middle School, to coordinate with "Prom Promise" activities to discourage drinking.