A Workshop for Parents/Guardians
Are the Messages You're Giving Your Kids Effective?

• Learn Healthy Messages to Give Our Kids Around Substance Abuse
• Understand the real data in the Amherst area around use
• Find Out about Family Contracts

March 22, 2007 7:30pm
ARHS Library

Local data shows that when parents communicate a no-use message to their kids they're more likely to delay first use and more likely to use less when they do start to drink.

Lauri Turkovsky, Ed.D. has been in the field of Public Health for 17 years. She specializes in translating the prevention science research in to practical suggestions for practitioners such as teachers, coalition members and parents. Dr. Turkovsky is the Sr. Prevention Science Coordinator at the Western Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities where she’s been for the past eight years. Before then she worked at University Health Services, UMass, as a sexuality specialist and as an adolescent specialist in the HIV/AIDS prevention division of two county health departments in the Seattle, Washington area. Lauri has presented to many parent audiences about what parents really need to know to help their teens navigate adolescence as safely as possible.