Author: LCAHY

Teens for Healthy Youth

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The mission of Teens for Healthy Youth (THY) is to promote positive teen health through:

    • Community Service
    • Youth Leadership
    • Positive Youth Development
    • Advocacy
    • Peer to Peer Education

Teens for Healthy Youth of LCAHY brochure 2018 2019 

THY is currently active in the following high schools:

 

If you would like more information, please contact:

Mrs. Laura Pirkey, LCAHY Youth Coordinator

laurapirkey@gmail.com

Teens for Healthy Youth (THY) is an initiative of LowCountry Alliance for Healthy Youth.

Be Part of the Soulution

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This PSA is currently a segment of our Social Marketing Campaign that will be launched in the near future involving different forms of advertisements that encourage our community to send clear messages about youth drinking and drug use.

Talk They Hear You

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SAMHSA’s underage drinking prevention campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking to their children early about the dangers of alcohol.

This campaign aims to reduce underage drinking and substance use among youths under the age of 21 by providing parents and caregivers with information and resources they need to address alcohol and other drug use with their children early.

https://www.samhsa.gov/underage-drinking

 

Monitoring the Future: a continuous study of American youth

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The Monitoring the Future (MTF) project, begun in 1975, has many purposes. Among them is to study changes in the beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of young people in the United States. In recent years, the U.S. has experienced tremendous changes in public opinion toward such diverse issues as government and politics, alcohol and other drug use, gender roles, and protection of the environment. Much of our current upheaval in attitudes is especially concentrated, and often first seen, in today’s youth. This study focuses on youth because of their significant involvement in today’s social changes and, most important, because youth in a very literal sense will constitute our future society. The results of the study are useful to policymakers at all levels of government, for example, to monitor progress toward national health goals. Study results are also used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among adolescents and young adults and are used routinely in the White House Strategy on Drug Abuse. (www.monitoringthefuture.org)

Get the facts about drugs – Just Think Twice

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens

Marijuana Facts/How to Talk to Teens

Underage Drinking Facts

Proper Medication Disposal

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Promptly remove expired, unwanted, or unused medicines from your home to help reduce the chance that others accidentally take or intentionally misuse the unneeded medicine, and to help reduce drugs from entering the environment. (www.fda.gov)

Here is a list of local sites that will take back and dispose of your unused medications all year round:

Open Drop Off:

  • Beaufort County Government Building – 4819 Bluffton Prkwy, Bluffton, SC 29910*
  • Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office – 70 Shelter Cove Ln., Hilton Head Island, SC
  • Walgreens, Okatie – 138 Okatie Center Blvd, Okatie, SC 29909
  • Ulmer Family Pharmacy – 68 Bluffton Rd. #6, Bluffton, SC 29910

*In partnership with Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, and LCAHY.

Customers Only:

  • Burke’s Pharmacy – 1101 Main St., Hilton Head, SC 29926
  • Bluffton Pharmacy – 167 Bluffton Rd B, Bluffton, SC 29910

Free DisposeRx:

  • Walmart Pharmacies
  • Sams Club Pharmacies

(What is DisposeRx?)

LCAHY participates in National Take Back Day, which will be held on October 26th, 2019.

Please check back to see local participating site locations.

Proper Home Disposal:

Mix the medicines (do NOT crush tablets or capsules) with an unpalatable substance such as dirt, kitty litter, or used coffee grounds. This prevents thievery or diversion of medicines from the trash. Then, place the mixture in a container such as a zip-lock or sealable plastic bag, and throw the container away in your household trash. (www.fda.gov)

Safe Home Storage:

  1. Securely close all caps on medications after use.
  2. Remove medications from all locations that are easily accessible and in plain sight.
  3. Remind guest to choose safe storage of their medications while in your home.
  4. Talk to friends and family members about safe home storage.

Resources

JustPainKillers.com – Opioid Alternatives

Opioid Overdose

The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioids

Beaufort County Library Resources

Surgeon General Advisory: E-Cigarettes an Epidemic

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E-cigarette use poses a significant – and avoidable – health risk to young people in the United States. Besides increasing the possibility of addiction and long-term harm to brain development and respiratory health, e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products that can do even more damage to the body. Even breathing e-cigarette aerosol that someone else has exhaled poses potential health risks. (surgeongeneral.gov)

 

Get the facts. Know the risks. Take action. And get resources.

Go to the Surgeon General’s Website.

Center for Disease Control (CDC) information on Electronic Cigarettes.

Truth Initiative – Inspiring Tobacco-Free Lives

Become A Smoke-Free Teen

Tobacco, Nicotine and E-Cigarettes

This Is Quitting

E-Cigarette Prevention

Video on Dangers of E-Cigarettes, Vaping and JUULS (taped at Bluffton High School).