Prevention Council News
Prevention Council News
Making a mess Tuff eNuff course takes sloppy shape
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 By Jennie Grey The Saratogian Runners beware: This is not your average 5K fundraiser race. This year, the heavy equipment students at the Board of Cooperative Educational Services have built a new and difficult course for Tuff eNuff, the obstacle course challenge that benefits Saratoga County’s Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Council. And on Saturday, runners will tackle the route laid out through the Henning Road BOCES campus and the New York Racing Association Lowlands, leaping over, crawling under and wading through obstacles — and getting very muddy. The route’s biggest challenges are strung out across [...]
Reader’s View Identifying depression and suicide risk
May 15, 2013 By Patty Kilgore Director of Counseling Services The Prevention Council Editor’s note: Through Friday, The Saratogian is collaborating with the Prevention Council as part of National Prevention Week. This observance is an opportunity to raise awareness about substance abuse and mental health issues, to promote prevention efforts and to educate our local communities about the factors that influence substance use. Prevention Week celebrates the idea that everyone has a role to play in prevention. In order to be most effective, prevention should be woven into all aspects of young peoples’ lives. The onset of spring brings longer days, [...]
Reader’s View No underage drinking in our house
May 14, 2013 Reader's View, The Saratogian Editor’s note: Through Friday, The Saratogian is collaborating with the Prevention Council as part of National Prevention Week. This week-long observance is an opportunity to raise awareness about substance abuse and mental health issues, to promote prevention efforts and to educate our local communities about the factors that influence substance use. Prevention Week celebrates the idea that everyone has a role to play in prevention. In order to be most effective, prevention should be woven into all aspects of young peoples’ lives. It’s prom season, and along with the dress, the tux, the [...]
Reader’s View Prescription drugs and lethal results
Reader's View The Saratogian Monday, May 13, 2013 Editor’s note: The Saratogian is collaborating with the Prevention Council as part of National Prevention Week. This week-long observance will cover the topics of under-age drinking, prescription drug use, the teenage brain, hosting underage parties, suicide prevention, and the relevance of mental, emotional, and behavioral health to substance use and abuse. Prescription drugs have become the hot new thing because they’re cheap, they’re easy to come by and kids think they’re safer than street drugs. But nothing could be further from the truth. The way prescription medications are being abused and combined [...]
Reader’s View Strong words to prevent underage drinking
Reader's View The Saratogian Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 Editor’s note: Over the next five days, The Saratogian will collaborate with the Prevention Council as part of National Prevention Week. This week-long observance is an opportunity to raise awareness about substance abuse and mental health issues, to promote prevention efforts, and to educate our local communities about the factors that influence substance use. Prevention Week celebrates the idea that everyone has a role to play in prevention. And in order to be most effective, prevention should be woven into all aspects of young peoples’ lives. Over the next five days, [...]
Jeff Yalden Speaks at 31st Safe Spring Student Leadership Conference
By Chelsea DiSchiano for Saratoga Today>> (Photo by Mark Bolles/Saratoga Today) The Palamountain Hall at the Skidmore campus was filled with over 200 high school students from all around Saratoga County on March 12 as they excitedly anticipated a lecture by life coach Jeff Yalden, famous for his appearances as a life coach on MTV’s popular reality program, “MADE.” Yalden made the appearance for the 31st Annual Safe Spring Student Leadership Conference put on by The Prevention Council of Saratoga County in its effort to encourage students to be sober while celebrating upcoming spring activities, such as the prom and [...]
Dangerous Ways Teens are Getting Drunk and High
FOX23 News February 21, 2013 When it comes to the latest trends of teens drinking and getting high, some of the ways alcohol is being manipulated will shock you. Plus, the products kids are using are likely on your grocery list. 74 percent of high school seniors in Saratoga County alone admit they have used alcohol, according to a survey conducted by the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Council. But how they're getting drunk and high is a lot more dangerous than you may think. "I got tired of the things that I felt from smoking weed and drinking and [...]
Survey Aims to Assess Parent Awareness of Kids’ Drug and Alcohol Use
January 28, 2013 POSTED BY Laura Rappaport Saratoga Wire What do parents know about their kids’ drug and alcohol habits? That’s a question the Saratoga Partnership for Prevention asks every two years. The Partnership is asking parents of kids in grades 7-12 in the Saratoga Springs City School District to take a brief online survey about adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use by going to Survey Monkey. The process is completely anonymous and takes less than 15 minutes. The parent questionnaire is the companion survey to the Youth Prevention Needs Assessment given every other fall to all Saratoga Springs 7th - 12th graders. It’s [...]
Prevention Council looks to overcome loss of grants
December 7, 2012 YNN News SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Since its inception 10 years ago, the Prevention Council's drug free program at Saratoga Springs High School has made great strides in the war on substance abuse. "Their usage rates dropped almost 40 percent,” executive director Heather Kisselback said. “There's still kids using so it's just a matter of what as a community is acceptable to you. To us it's zero, we don't want any kids using." "When you have consistency over a long period of time it becomes part of the culture," Saratoga Springs School District superintendent Michael Piccirillo said. [...]
Hookah use is a harmful practice
Sunday, December 2, 2012 The Saratogian I read with great interest the article of Nov. 23 announcing the opening of Saratoga Springs’ first hookah bar. I must take exception, though, with the opening line of the article, “people can now relax with special flavored tobacco products.” A hookah user may think they are relaxing, but in fact they are putting their body to great risk by utilizing one of the most dangerous and addictive forms of smoking available. A 2009 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and reported on by ABC News showed that a typical session of [...]