National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign webinars

Posted by on January 02, 2011

Anti-drug campaign to launch monthly webinar series

In early 2011, the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign will launch a monthly webinar series on Implementing Above the Influence in Your Local Community.

The Media Campaign created Above the Influence to help teens stand up to negative pressures and to inspire them to think critically about drug use.  A key goal is to help youth make more informed choices and urge them to “be true to themselves by rejecting negative influences in their lives.”

The campaign has revamped the youth campaign to provide a greater emphasis on supporting communities across the country working on youth prevention issues, as part of a strategy to engage teens at the local community level.

The campaign used the learnings from a pilot project in three cities to create an Above the Influence toolkit of activities that includes user-friendly resources to help community groups and youth leaders facilitate discussions with teens about influences and ways to stay “above it.”

The group will sponsor two webinars in January to discuss the toolkit and other campaign activities.  To sign up for the webinar on Thursday, January 13th, go here (https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/588646608); for the January 20th webinar, go here (https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/751780240).   Both webinars will take place form 1:30 to 2:30pm.

For more information, email [email protected].