FCD Prevention Works Visits CDH
January 20, 2020
The week after Christmas break, Jan. 6-10, professionals from FCD Prevention Works visited CDH to educate ninth grade Values classes about substance abuse prevention.
FCD Prevention Works is part of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. For decades, FCD has worked worldwide to provide students and the adults who care for them with the knowledge, understanding, and skills they need to make intelligent, healthy choices about alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
- Promote awareness of addiction, including alcoholism, as a progressive, chronic, and often fatal disease.
- Empower young people to make healthy, responsible choices regarding alcohol and other drug use.
- Educate students, parents, teachers, and school administrators on the physiological and psychological effects of alcohol and other drugs.
- Teach students and adults to recognize the early warning signs of substance abuse and to intervene appropriately.
- Encourage and support the non-use of alcohol and other illegal or illicit drugs during the growing years.
- Provide our community with guidance and training necessary to implement comprehensive, effective approaches to substance abuse prevention.
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