SESSION 1 - Tuesday, 11:00am-12:20pm
1a - What Wisconsin Learned @ Town Hall Meetings on Underage Drinking
Louis Oppor, DHFS
Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Over half of Wisconsin’s youth begin drinking alcohol at 14 or earlier. Learn what Wisconsin discovered about its underage drinking problem at the Town Hall Meetings held in March and April 2006.
1b - Strengthening Families: Is it for your community?
Gail Peavey and Pam Peterson, UW-Extension
Strengthening Families for Parents and Youth reduces the likelihood for substance abuse and other problems associated with the teen years. It is an effective program for addressing mental health, child abuse and neglect concerns. This seven-week program provides lessons for parents and youth, concluding with a family session. This program is also demonstrated its effectiveness in addressing mental health, child abuse and neglect concerns. Learn why many communities in Wisconsin are using this program and how to implement it.
1c - Caution! You Are Entering a Construction Zone: The Adolescent Brain
Jeanne Erickson, Childhood Brain Development Project Specialist, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Teenagers are all too often viewed as young adults, ready and equipped to face the world and all its challenges. Research is telling us, however, that the teen brain is still a work in progress! Combine a still developing brain with use and abuse of substances that will directly impact the physiology of the brain, and the effect will be seen through the short-term behavioral effect of the drugs themselves, but more importantly through the long term effects on the behavior and cognitive skills of the individual. Participants in this workshop will focus on the basic biology of the brain, with emphasis on what research is telling us about the teen brain. This workshop will help shed some light on teen behaviors and how these behaviors are guided by the brain. So put on your hard hat, you are about to enter a construction zone!
Session 1 - Tuesday 11:00am-12:20pm
Session 2 - Tuesday 2:00pm-3:20pm
Session 3 - Tuesday 3:30pm-4:50pm
Session 4 - Wednesday 9:30am-10:50am
Session 5 - Wednesday 11:00am-12:20pm
General Session Descriptions
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