Home Page
|
ARCH
Community Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
• Happy
Summer Holiday - see you in the Fall
• 2007-2008 ARCH Accomplishments
(click here)
Community News
June 2008, Letter to Editor:
D.A.R.E.
(click here)
by Gwenn Mascioli
-
Congratulations to area 5th
grade students who completed
the Drug Abuse Resistance
Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
|
Join
ARCH Listserve -
Receive e-mails from ARCH and participate in dialogue with others
on ARCH topics. It’s free!
FYI
-- THE
PARENT NETWORK
(Click here
for details)
Where: Great Valley Middle School,
Faculty
Dining Room
When: TBA - 2008-9
Tuesdays,
7:00 – 9:00 PM
ARCH
(Area Residents Caring & Helping) is a community coalition
established in 1981 by parents and other community members to
assist, educate and support one another in dealing with substance
use and abuse by youth. We are actively working to keep kids alcohol
and drug free.
(Tredyffrin & Easttown Townships, Chester County, Pennsylvania)
2007-2008
Initiatives: ARCH is planning to address the issue of
underage drinking:
-
By implementing an alcohol abuse prevention program based on
the principles of social norming, a research-based approach
with proven efficacy.
More information on Social Norms
Campaign
- By
hosting two programs, with professional speakers/ trainers,
specifically geared for parents, to provide information and
skills in parenting for prevention.
Want to Plan a Party for your Teen and hardly know where to start?
Tom Hagy, a parent of a teen in our
area, shares his proven strategy for having a successful party
for teenagers. In this humorous but quite serious Letter to the
Editor, Tom explains how staying in control begins with careful
planning and a clear strategy -- without killing all the fun.
(reprinted with permission). [Read
Letter]
Statement
of Purpose
We are a partnership of parents, school administrators,
police officers, teachers, students, and community members committed
to supporting families and helping youth form a strong positive
self image to enable them to make healthy choices and stay drug
free.
Our
goal is to assist the community to provide a better quality
of individual and community life by working towards the elimination
of alcohol and other drug use by minors, fostering healthy relationships
between parents and youth, and further cooperation between schools
and the community.
View Brochure:
Adobe Reader (PDF) document.
last
page update 6/12/2008