Vote for our Teen Institute PSA!!

You can now show your support for Wood County Teen Institute by voting for our Public Service Announcement! 

On Saturday, Sept. 24, 63 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.

One of the seven PSAs that were produced - affectionately known in the office as "The Shufflin' Video" - was entered into the ODADAS PSA contest.

 You can now vote for that video on the ODADAS Facebook page. Simply scroll down until you find the video titled "Entry for the Youth PSA Contest submitted by the Wood County TI," and "Like" the video. If you do that, you have voted!! You don't even have to have a Facebook account to vote!

Share this information with your friends and tell them to vote as well.

The contest winner - a.k.a. the PSA with the most "likes" - 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.

Now get out there and vote!! Thanks for your support.

Retreat leads to creation of public service announcements

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.