DNT TXT N DRV apps
Keep the conversation and message from the Remember Alex Brown Foundation alive. To help keep you and others safe while driving there are some apps that help manage text messages while driving.
1) Drive Safely: This FREE app is a mobile application that reads text (SMS) messages and emails aloud in real time and automatically responds without drivers touching the mobile phone.
2) Text Toggle: This app is designed to intercept text messages while driving, and immediately reply to the sender with a personalized message.
3) Phone Guard: per hour as detected by global positioning satellite (GPS) tracking, This app locks the phone’s keyboard once the vehicle speed reaches 10 miles per hour preventing the user from emailing, surfing the web or texting while driving and automatically sends a customized pre-set response that is delivered to the texter or caller that reads, for example “I am driving and will contact you when I reach my destination.”
Join the Majority
Parents cite many different reasons for objecting to letting their teen attend a party where alcohol is available. Reasons may include:
• Underage drinking is illegal
• A teen’s safety may be compromised at a party where alcohol is served
• Teens who start drinking before age 15 are 5 times more likely to develop alcohol problems as adults.
• Teen drinking also increases the risk of unsafe sex, drunk driving and other hazardous behaviors.
• Sticking to your family rules when at a friends’ home is challenging
• Your teen’s school commitments may be compromised by attending a party where alcohol is served
So, if you haven’t already, join the majority and Tell them why YOU object!
Girls on the Run and Girls on Track Return to Flood Brook Union School
The Girls on the Run is a positive youth development program that inspires third though eighth grade girls to stay true to themselves and live free from societal stereotypes. For 10 weeks, girls will participate in lessons that empower girls to celebrate their bodies, honor their voice, and embrace their gifts while prepare for a 5k run. Girls on the Run, 3rd-5th grades, and Girls on Track, 6th-8th grades, starts March 5th and ends May 19th at a 5k race in Brattleboro. Girls meet after school twice a week for an hour and fifteen minutes where they will have fun, be informed and empowered, and build strength and confidence. Registration forms can be found at The Collaborative and the FBUS front office. Completed registration forms are due by March 1st. The cost of the program registration is $70. Through grant writing and fundraising The Collaborative can cover some of this expense.
We are asking each participant to pay a minimum of $25 and if you can contribute more or the full amount. Any extra money will go towards ensuring the continuity of this program in our community. The program is limited to 15 girls per program so acceptance is first come first serve. For more details contact Cara at 824-4200
Spots Still Available for Free Childcare on MLK Day!
The Collaborative’s AmeriCorps team will be offering a free day of childcare on MLK Day, January 16, 2012.
Spots are still available! Programming is open to K-6th grade students; middle & high school students are invited to volunteer at the event. Participants must bring a lunch and outdoor clothing. Snacks will be provided by The Collaborative. Click here for more info.
Register online here. Or contact Cara at 824-4200 or cara@thecollaborative.us to request registration forms.
Join the AmeriCorps team for a day of service. It’s MLK Day: A Day On!
Eggs, Kiwis, Flamingos… what’s next?
Please help us put together our next parent message by participating in this short survey!
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Positive Parenting Works!
Good news! Look around and you’ll see throughout our community positive parenting happening every day. Positive parenting emphasizes what’s right with our youth and what good activities they are involved with. Positive parenting focuses on giving kids from their early years throughout their teen years tools, supports and values. The Search Institute refers to these as 40 Developmental Assets. The more assets a child or teens has, the more resilient, caring and healthy the youth may become. The more assets the youth has, the more likely the youth will be to make healthy choices. (http://www.search-institute.org)
What are these assets that our kids need to help survive the teen years and grow in to responsible and healthy adults? Following the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets some of the categories include Support (family support, positive communication and involvement with school), Boundaries and Expectations (clear family rules and consequences and positive adult role modeling), Positive Values and Identity (Young person accepts and takes personal responsibility and young person feels he or she has control over “things that happen to me”). How do you support your child at home and school? How does your child keep track of their extracurricular schedules, family obligations and school work? What positive role modeling behaviors do you exhibit around your child? How do you monitor your child’s whereabouts and activities when your child’s hanging out at their friend’s house? How does your child problem solve school and social issues?
The Collaborative is kicking off a positive parenting campaign. We are reaching out to parents, guardians and caring adults and asking what positive parenting works in your family? To share your ideas and join the conversation add or comments below or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thecollaborativeus. Share how you communicate, support and bestow positive values with your child and what positive parenting techniques you use with your kids. To start your thinking, a coalition in Maine shared these Positive Parenting Techniques!
Anyone that responds will have their name entered into a drawing to win 4 tickets to Village Picture Shows Cinema.
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Middle School Peer Leadership
Want to learn more and sign up?
This is a fun filled overnight with workshops, activities and games! Workshops will explore issues like bullying and tobacco prevention while building teamwork, cooperation, leadership and self-esteem. Come join this challenging and rewarding opportunity!
