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Mission
Working together to prevent or reduce substance abuse in Garner youth.

Vision
Youth and adults working together to build a healthy community for healthy youth.




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November 2011 Table Talk



Attention--Parents of Senior Students from Garner-Hayfield:

“Alcohol-Free Graduation Celebration” signs/yard signs are available at no charge by calling the Garner Asset Project (GAP) office at 641-923-2632.


Displaying the sign demonstrates your support and commitment to hosting an alcohol-free event for your graduating senior student.




Upcoming Events


GAP Coalition Meeting
-June 14, 2012
United Presbyterian Church
475 Maben Ave., Garner, IA

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


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April Celebrates…

  • April marks the 26th annual National Alcohol Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). This year's theme "Healthy Choices, Healthy Communities: Prevent Underage Drinking" highlights the important role that communities play in preventing underage drinking.
  • Alcohol is popular, socially accepted, and legal. Alcohol is a powerful, mood altering drug. Decades of research helps people understand how alcohol and drugs affect the body and brain. Prolonged, repeated alcohol and drug use can result in fundamental, long-lasting changes in the body, including brain structure and functioning.
  • Alcoholism is a chronic disease, from which people can and do recover.  Alcohol-related problems and alcoholism affect each and every one of us, directly or indirectly. The annual economic cost of alcohol-related problems exceeds $224 billion ($746 per person) due to lost productivity, health care costs, business, and criminal justice costs.  It is our nation’s number one public health problem in America.
  • Regrettably, alcohol is the number one drug of choice for America's youth and unfortunately the most accessible. According to NCADD, underage drinking accounts for 16 percent of all alcohol sales, and costs the nation an estimated $62 billion annually.  The good news is… we are making progress. While the issue may be complex, it is one that can be solved through a sustained and cooperative effort between parents, schools and colleges, community leaders, health care providers, employers, and youth.
  • It is the non-medical use of prescription medications that has taken second place behind alcohol in the spectrum of problematic drug use. April also celebrates the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This event will take place on Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 10 AM to 2 PM, providing consumers in every state with a safe means for the disposal of unwanted, unused prescription medications.

  • A year ago, it was discussed that it would be ideal to have one consistent, convenient, safe place for prescription drug disposal within each county. This year we can proudly say that each North Iowa substance abuse coalition and county law enforcement agency has worked together to provide this valuable public service.  To participate in this effort, you can contact your local Sheriff’s office. Each county is also taking back during regular business hours year round.  

Together, we can make healthy choices, and develop healthy communities.

MONITOR COMPUTERS AND CELL
PHONES TO PROTECT
YOUR CHILD FROM CYBERBULLYING

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Thanks to social media such as email and Facebook, bullies can now attack children in the place they feel safest--their home. Cyber bullies use internet and cell phones to hurt, threaten and embarrass others. Cyber bullies can victimize their targets in a variety of ways including the following:

*Create websites that make fun of or criticize another person

*Sending mean or threatening emails, text messages or instant messages

*Pretending to be someone else tricking the victim into revealing personal information

*Lying about their victim online

*Using websites to rate their peers

*Hacking into other's email







 

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BULLYING HELP LINE READY FOR CALLS
The Bullying Help Line, a resource for young people, parents, family members, educators and others, is taking calls twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.  The Bullying Help Line, operated by Crisis Intervention Service, can be reached by calling 641-424-9071 or toll free at
1-800-479-9071.  Calls are confidential and will be answered from across the North Central Iowa area.
In addition to individual counseling for victims of bullying, their friends, and family, the Help Line can provide information on the laws and policies school districts and law enforcement are required to follow.  Help Line staff can walk parents and others step by step through the reporting process and provide information on how to document the actions taken. The Help Line can also provide information on other community resources and state level contacts.
Help Line staff will be able to assist family and friends of perpetrators as well as victims.
The Bullying Help Line is a project of the Mason City Youth Task Force Safe Places Promise Team and is supported by a Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Grant to the Youth Task Force from the IA Department of Public Health.

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