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Parents You Matter! Training

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CDF is pleased to announce

"Parents You Matter!"

Train The Professional Training

Date: November 15th, 2011

Time: 8:30 - 11:30

Location: Holmes Meeting Room

Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro NC

Parents You Matter! is an evidenced-based program teaching

parent communication skills to prevent substance use among youth.

(Limited mini-grants and follow-up support will be available to participating agencies who wish to host parent trainings.)

Please RSVP to Elizabeth Meadows

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Mrs. Beck's Media Ready Projects

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Chatham Middle School students in Mrs. Beck's class participated in Media Ready. The final project was to create counter-advertisements based on real tobacco and alcohol advertisements. With the knowledge from the Media Ready lessons the students worked in groups to create the following projects. On the left you will see the original advertisement. On the right you will see the counter-advertisements the students created. By taking imagery, language and other marketing techniques, the student turned the meaning of the advertisements into something new!

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Fatal Vision Survey Results

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FATAL VISION DRUGGED DRIVING RESULTS

Spring 2011, Fatal Vision was incorporated into Driver’s Education program in the Chatham County Schools. A uniformed police officer delivered a program on the effects of drinking and driving, using fatal vision goggles to help students understand how alcohol impairs their ability to drive. Fatal Vision continues to be a part of Driver’s Education in Chatham County, and preliminary analyses show a similar, favorable, pattern of results for the Fall of 2012. Additional analyses will be conducted Spring 2012 to see if there has been a change in the rate of riding with someone who had been drinking and drinking and driving district wide since Fatal Vision was first implemented in Chatham County Schools.

The most recent analysis determined the following:

  • 95.4% of participants thought that wearing fatal vision goggles would feel similar to being under the influence of alcohol or another impairing substance.
  • 95% of participants reported that it was harder to complete activities with fatal vision goggles on that it was to complete the same activities without wearing fatal vision goggles.
  • 74.2% of participants were in fact surprised by how difficult it was to complete activities while wearing fatal vision goggles.
  • 94.8% reported that, after their experience with fatal vision goggles, they would not ride with someone who had been drinking. This is especially noteworthy given that 21.4% of similar age youth (juniors), reporting riding with a drunk driver in the most recent Chatham County Alcohol and Other Drug Survey (2010).