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The pandemic has presented us with many lessons for our personal and collective growth–the importance of strong communities being just one. We are thrilled to return to celebrating in-person for the first time since 2019! If you haven’t attended before, this is the year to start!
Our 13th Annual Roots of Prevention Celebration is the perfect opportunity to pause and say thank you to the people moving hills and mountains to help build a stronger, healthier Burlington.
These awards recognize and honor people, programs, and organizations supporting the health and wellbeing of the Burlington community. Special interest is given to nominations with a direct impact on substance misuse prevention.
Check-in and Food Serving 5-6pm
Event 6-8pm
Stick around to chat, mingle, and congratulate award recipients until 8:30pm
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Everywhere we turn, our cultural and social practices have normalized and even glamorized alcohol and substance use. From sporting events to mainstream media to celebrations and gatherings, the casual and “fun” use of substances presents dangerous perceptions for youth, increasing their risk for developing addiction.
In this important LIVE event, ParentIN presents Jessica Lahey, author of The Addiction Inoculation and New York Times bestseller, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed and three year NYT biweekly columnist of The Parent-Teacher Conference. Jessica is a national speaker, with years of lived experience as a teacher, addiction expert, recovering alcoholic, and mother, and will share research-backed strategies on how to set up our kids for the best outcomes. We can’t raise our kids in isolation from culture or social pressures. But Jessica will share practical strategies to raise them with a strong sense of self-efficacy, building their skills and confidence to navigate challenging situations like substance use.
Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Substance Use
TWO dates to catch this!
May 23rd * 7-8:30pm at Hunt Middle School in Burlington
May 25th * 7-8:30pm at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg
Who is this event for?
Prevention is a community responsibility. This discussion will resonate with any positive youth leader – parent or caregiver, educator, coach, mentor, community leader.
What will you take away?
- Why youth are more inherently at risk for developing problem substance use.
- Factors contributing to youth substance use
- Why self-efficacy plays such an important role in raising healthy kids
Share this FREE opportunity widely and be sure to register so you’ll receive reminders and event updates leading up to the scheduled event.
Light snacks will be provided!
Thank you to our partners at Phoenix Books in Burlington who will be on-site with books for purchase and signing after Jessica’s talk.
Register for either event at www.bphc.link/lahey
Please direct any questions or access needs to parentinburlington@gmail.com
This yearly celebration informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, what the World Health Organization (WHO) is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic, and what people around the world can do to claim their right to health and healthy living and to protect future generations.
The Member States of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution WHA40.38, calling for 7 April 1988 to be a “a world no-smoking day.” In 1988, Resolution WHA42.19 was passed, calling for the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, every year on 31 May.
Learn more at:
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-no-tobacco-day