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| Wood County Teen Institute members at the Sept. 24 retreat at Splash Bay in Maumee, OH |
Teens often
express their concern and worry regarding peers and drug abuse.
Recent statistics tell us that one in five teens abuse prescription drugs.
On
Saturday, Sept. 24, Wood County teens took action to make a difference.
Sixty-three Wood County students attended the Teen Institute annual
leadership retreat and learned about public service announcements (PSA)
and then produced their own to enter into an Ohio Department of Alcohol and
Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) PSA contest.
Schools
that were represented at the retreat included Bowling Green, Eastwood, Elmwood,
Lake, North Baltimore, Otsego, Penta, Perrysburg and Rossford. Students also
were introduced to prevention strategies that will be useful for the 2011-2012
school year.
The students left the retreat energized, creative, and
compelled to be role models and agents of change.Seven PSAs
were created during the retreat. The winning video from those seven can be seen
online at http://youtu.be/PwjSaOWeH0o
Once all of
the video have been submitted statewide, we all will have an opportunity to
vote for our favorite video. We will post details on how to vote on our Twitter
account at http://twitter.com/#!/WCESCPrevention
The winner
will be announced and recognized at the 2011 Ohio Prevention and Education
Conference (OPEC), which will be held Nov. 15-17 in Dublin, OH. If chosen, our
group will work with the ODADAS Office of Communications to potentially have
the winning PSA aired in their local market. It also will be featured on the
ODADAS Web site, Facebook and YouTube pages.
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