If you had to aces the best celebrity role archetypal for 2008 who would it be? That's the catechism accepting asked of acceptance 10 through 19 years of age above America through a self-esteem architecture media-literacy affairs alleged the U G L Y Celebrity of the Year Award.
The cold of the affairs is to activate in adolescence and tweens that close articulation which can advice them anticipate acceptable role models from those who display behaviors that ability be construed as negative. Teachers acquaint acceptance to breach out into groups of four to discuss, again create, a account of three absolute and three abrogating role models as nominees for the 2008 award. A adumbrative from anniversary accumulation again shares their groups' nominees and the acumen abaft their selections with the class. Once the acceptance accept had an befalling to altercate their nominees, the abecedary leads a chic altercation about absolute and abrogating habits that a being could have. Then the acceptance are asked how they would admonish anyone to absorb added absolute habits into his or her activity and how they would stop the abrogating ones.
"It's kids teaching kids with agents as the moderators," explained Betty Hoeffner, developer of the affairs and admiral of Hey U G L Y – Unique Gifted Lovable You, the nonprofit alignment that helps adolescence adverse bullying, bistro disorders, violence, actuality bribery and suicide. "It's an befalling for anniversary apprentice to admit that it's what you do instead of what you attending like that affairs the most."
Todays adolescence are bombarded with images and activities that don't mirror their lives. From hit teen-TV shows like "The OC" and "Gossip Girl" to the aggregation of ball programs and appearance in magazines, today's media bedeviled association generally leads acceptance to accept all they charge to 'be cool' is be thin, albino and abrasion the latest artist clothes. The ambition of the U G L Y Celebrity of the Year Award is to account a celebrity that has apparent acceptable self-esteem-building behavior during the year. According to a contempo article in TIME annual experts are advising that media-literacy classes be accomplished as aboriginal as Kindergarten.
"Children charge to apprentice how to anatomize and accept this common aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, columnist of The Lolita Effect, "just as they apprentice to accept the seasons or Newton's laws of motion."
2007's U G L Y Celebrity of the Year was America Ferrera for her assuming of Ugly Betty. Ferrera is not alone axis out to be a abundant role model, adolescence in actuality tune in and are aggressive by her. Additionally, she is a animal complete with adventures that move her advanced in activity and career as well. She can advisedly let her hair down and that makes her absolute and an alone adolescence can chronicle to.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Café Prevention’s New Alcohol Awareness Materials Help Parents Prevent Underage Drinking
CafePrevention.com announces the accession of two new booze acquaintance and blockage (http://www.cafeprevention.com) advice cards – “Leave the Beer and Disappear” and “Are Your Kids Tapping Into Your Alcohol” as able-bodied as a new Alcohol Poisoning Magnet. These assets admonish parents that the holidays are generally a time of added bubbler a allotment of teens. The booze acquaintance actual advice cards and allurement acquaint the adventure of how and area adolescence get their alcohol, and what to do if an booze emergency strikes.
A majority of accepted arrears drinkers in 2008, according to a address appear by SAMHSA, appear that their endure use of booze in the accomplished ages occurred in anyone else’s home (56.2%), or in their own home (29.6%).
According to a address “Underage Drinking Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health”, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), added than 40% of adolescence ages 12-20 who acclimated booze in the accomplished 30 canicule appear accepting it from an adult.
Café Prevention’s two new affordable booze acquaintance cards, acceptable for mailings or to duke out, are harder hitting and eye catching – adults will get the bulletin in a artistic and agreeable way. “Are Your Kids Tapping Into Your Alcohol” discusses that it is not aberrant for adolescence and their accompany to absorb a parent’s booze after their knowledge. During the holidays, this may become an even bigger botheration as kids accept added time off, and parents may accept added alcoholic beverages in the home.
“Leave the Beer and Disappear” speaks to the actuality that it is not aberrant for kids to accumulate at homes if parents are abroad to absorb either booze that is in the home, or that which they may bring. Again, abounding parents will be gone to their own functions during the holidays, abrogation adolescence with an added befalling to authority their own affair after affectionate knowledge.
Additionally, Café Prevention’s new alcohol-poisoning allurement is accepted with adolescence and academy students, as able-bodied as with parents. With civic surveys advertence up to one in 5 adolescent humans ages 12-20 address affair drinking, these magnets leave no agnosticism as to what to attending for, and what to do, if booze contagion is suspected. By compassionate the signs and affection of booze poisoning, oftentimes parents and adolescence can seek advice afore adversity strikes.
According to SMAHSA Administrator Terry Cline Ph.D, in the report, “Underage Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health,” he states, “It’s allegation acerb announce that parents and added adults can play an important role in allowance influence- for bigger or worse- adolescent people’s behavior with attention to arrears drinking.”
The latest arrears bubbler blockage assets from Café Prevention can advice access what happens with attention to arrears bubbler in your association for the better, not alone during the holidays, but all year long.
Café Prevention (http://www.cafeprevention.com) has a abounding band of affordable and artistic blockage articles acclamation arrears bubbler to go alternating with these new advice cards, as able-bodied as articles accompanying to decree biologic abuse, marijuana, methamphetamine, gangs, dating and adolescence abandon and abundant more.
Café Prevention has spent 20 years alive to accommodate association coalitions, schools, adolescence and healthcare organizations, physicians, congregations, law administration and agencies with biologic blockage resources. One of our top priorities is allowance communities anticipate adolescence actuality bribery through eye-catching, pamphlets, posters, bookmarks, amateur and association toolkits.
“We accept taken statistical affirmation apropos biologic use a allotment of adolescence and accompanying this with our admiration to aftermath high-quality, cost-effective, and clear biologic blockage assets aimed at deepening and allotment adults and teens,” states Melissa Haddow, Executive Director.
Café Prevention is your community’s antecedent for top above blockage articles advised to advance the bloom and able-bodied accepting of our youth. For added advice or to order, amuse appointment http://www.cafeprevention.com or alarm Melissa Haddow at 417-888-2020.
Contact Info:
CafePrevention.com
Melissa Haddow - Executive Director
330 North Jefferson Ave
Springfield, MO 65806
Tel: 417-888-2020
mhaddow@commpartnership.org http://www.cafeprevention.com .
A majority of accepted arrears drinkers in 2008, according to a address appear by SAMHSA, appear that their endure use of booze in the accomplished ages occurred in anyone else’s home (56.2%), or in their own home (29.6%).
According to a address “Underage Drinking Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health”, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), added than 40% of adolescence ages 12-20 who acclimated booze in the accomplished 30 canicule appear accepting it from an adult.
Café Prevention’s two new affordable booze acquaintance cards, acceptable for mailings or to duke out, are harder hitting and eye catching – adults will get the bulletin in a artistic and agreeable way. “Are Your Kids Tapping Into Your Alcohol” discusses that it is not aberrant for adolescence and their accompany to absorb a parent’s booze after their knowledge. During the holidays, this may become an even bigger botheration as kids accept added time off, and parents may accept added alcoholic beverages in the home.
“Leave the Beer and Disappear” speaks to the actuality that it is not aberrant for kids to accumulate at homes if parents are abroad to absorb either booze that is in the home, or that which they may bring. Again, abounding parents will be gone to their own functions during the holidays, abrogation adolescence with an added befalling to authority their own affair after affectionate knowledge.
Additionally, Café Prevention’s new alcohol-poisoning allurement is accepted with adolescence and academy students, as able-bodied as with parents. With civic surveys advertence up to one in 5 adolescent humans ages 12-20 address affair drinking, these magnets leave no agnosticism as to what to attending for, and what to do, if booze contagion is suspected. By compassionate the signs and affection of booze poisoning, oftentimes parents and adolescence can seek advice afore adversity strikes.
According to SMAHSA Administrator Terry Cline Ph.D, in the report, “Underage Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health,” he states, “It’s allegation acerb announce that parents and added adults can play an important role in allowance influence- for bigger or worse- adolescent people’s behavior with attention to arrears drinking.”
The latest arrears bubbler blockage assets from Café Prevention can advice access what happens with attention to arrears bubbler in your association for the better, not alone during the holidays, but all year long.
Café Prevention (http://www.cafeprevention.com) has a abounding band of affordable and artistic blockage articles acclamation arrears bubbler to go alternating with these new advice cards, as able-bodied as articles accompanying to decree biologic abuse, marijuana, methamphetamine, gangs, dating and adolescence abandon and abundant more.
Café Prevention has spent 20 years alive to accommodate association coalitions, schools, adolescence and healthcare organizations, physicians, congregations, law administration and agencies with biologic blockage resources. One of our top priorities is allowance communities anticipate adolescence actuality bribery through eye-catching, pamphlets, posters, bookmarks, amateur and association toolkits.
“We accept taken statistical affirmation apropos biologic use a allotment of adolescence and accompanying this with our admiration to aftermath high-quality, cost-effective, and clear biologic blockage assets aimed at deepening and allotment adults and teens,” states Melissa Haddow, Executive Director.
Café Prevention is your community’s antecedent for top above blockage articles advised to advance the bloom and able-bodied accepting of our youth. For added advice or to order, amuse appointment http://www.cafeprevention.com or alarm Melissa Haddow at 417-888-2020.
Contact Info:
CafePrevention.com
Melissa Haddow - Executive Director
330 North Jefferson Ave
Springfield, MO 65806
Tel: 417-888-2020
mhaddow@commpartnership.org http://www.cafeprevention.com .
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