Local Mayors Create Video About the Dangers of Hosting Under-Age Drinking

Larchmont Mayor, Liz Feld, Village of Mamaroneck Mayor, Kathy Savolt and Town Supervisor, Valerie O'Keefe have come together to appear on a Public Service Announcement publicizing the dangers of hosting under-age drinking in your home.

Click here to view the PSA video

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign has created a series of TV commercials to prevent and reduce youth drug use. Under the management of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Campaign is a strategically integrated communications effort that combines advertising with public communications outreach to deliver anti-drug messages to America’s youth, their parents, and other influential adults.

Click here to watch the "Human Puppet" video and other videos

R.A.D.A.R. releases teen survey results

Teen substance use above national norms

By Paige Rentz (from April 3rd issue of Sound & Town Report)

Parents gathered in the Hommocks Auditorium last Wednesday received some sobering news: Larchmont and Mamaroneck teens are using and abusing substances at alarming rates. Evan Stern, a Hommocks counselor and R.A.D.A.R. board member, presented the results of the 2008 Communities That Care (CTC) Survey, which was administered to last year to over 1,000 students in grades six, seven, eight, 10 and 12 in the Mamaroneck School District. The data from this survey represents trends from the past six years, as the CTC has been administered every two years beginning in 2002.

And the survey says... click here to read rest of article

R.A.D.A.R. (Responsible Action: A Drug and Alcohol Resource)

Our Mission:

Larchmont-Mamaroneck RADAR (LM RADAR) is a community coalition committed to reducing the use of alcohol, drugs and other harmful substances by youth in our community. LM RADAR facilitates changing societal norms through the use of multiple research-based strategies to help our youth make healthy choices and avoid substance abuse.

Our Guiding Principles:

Reducing substance use/abuse is a collective responsibility that is best addressed at the community level by changing the environment and community norms within which our youth make choices about tobacco, drinking, and drugs.
The whole community must be engaged and feel ownership of the substance use problem. Only by working together toward a shared vision with a specific action plan can long-term change be achieved.
Efforts must build on the many strengths of the community to reduce the risk factors and increase the protective factors related to substance use.

Our Members:
The Coalition includes over 60 members representing a growing and diverse group of community members, in order to affect multiple strategies over multiple settings:

Concerned parents and other adults
Education
Local and County Law Enforcement
Youth Serving Organizations
Parents
Business Leaders
Health Care and Human Service Providers
Local and County Government
Civic Organizations
Faith Leaders
Teens
Media

Click here to learn about LM RADAR’s Board of Directors and Community Advisory Board

To join us click here – we have many openings on our committees

Sticker The Liquor

Click here to see how students remind the community about drinking age laws

Local Summit in June

Click here to read how community groups can help to control teenage substance abuse

Our youth are exposed to both risk and protective factors. Research has shown that minimizing the risk factors and maximizing the protective factors helps to reduce substance use.

Protective Factors
These are also known as assets or conditions that buffer youth from exposure to risk by either reducing the impact of the risks or changing the way that young people respond to risks.

Risk Factors
Conditions that increase the likelihood of a young person becoming involved in drug or alcohol use.

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