Ponaganset High School and Citizens and Students Together, 2015 Posters from the Asset Building Campaign at Ponaganset High School.
Resources
The Cost is Too High: Marijuana Affects Learning
The Barrington Adult Youth Team Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Poster) - Marijuana impairs a young person’s ability to concentrate and retain information. - Marijuana use is linked to poor grades and a higher dropout rate
The Cost is Too High: Marijuana Affects Driving
The Barrington Adult Youth Team Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Poster) - Marijuana causes reduced attention, reaction time and impaired ability to track objects. - Drivers who use marijuana are 2x as likely to cause a crash resulting in injury or death
The Cost is Too High: Marijuana is Addictive
The Barrington Adult Youth Team Against Alcohol and Drug Use (Poster) - About 1 in 6 people who start smoking marijuana in their teens will become addicted. - Marijuana is the number one reason RI teens are admitted for inpatient treatment of illicit drug abuse.
Prescription Drug Overdose
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, April 3rd 2015 Sometimes, the prescription becomes the problem. Each day, 44 people die from prescription opioid overdose. It’s time we all get involved. Challenge assumptions about prescription opioids, and patient...
E-Cigarettes: Behind the Marketing
Scholastic, 2015 You may have noticed that marketing for e-cigarettes seems to be more common than advertising for tobacco cigarettes. That’s because many types of ads for tobacco products are banned, but e-cigarettes don’t yet fall under the same rules. Marketers for...
Marijuana Talk Kit: What you need to know to talk with your teen about marijuana
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Marijuana — legal or otherwise — is a hot topic. It’s more important than ever for parents to protect their kids’ health and development by addressing this issue early and often. That’s why we created this talk kit. We want to help...
Transgender Youth and Health Disparity
Community Commons According to the Missouri Health Equity Collaboration (MOHEC) site, “Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or female) or gender expression differs from that usually associated with...
Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization
Annie E. Casey Foundation, January 2015 Advancing race equity and inclusion can sometimes seem daunting and often leaves many wondering how and where to start. One way to achieve social change in an organization is to incorporate race equity and inclusion at every...
Racial Equity Resources
National Collaborative for Health Equity The mission of the National Collaborative is to promote health equity by catalyzing collaboration among racial equity advocates, grassroots and community-based organizations, researchers, public health professionals, and other...