FOR STUDENTS:

• Drug Screening: Now, with the support of the Turn 2 Foundation, PPS is able to offer students a chance to change their behavior and seek counseling offered in the community. Turn 2 grant monies have been used for support to pay for voluntary drug screening at a licensed facility.
• Red Ribbon Week: A national drug/alcohol awareness week where middle and high school students are encouraged to remain alcohol, drug, and tobacco free. Turn 2 grant monies were used to offer prizes for the students to promote their participation.
• Challenge Day: A one-day workshop where youth, teachers, parents, administrators, counselors and members of the community, experience for themselves that love and connection are indeed possible in our schools. Students and adults were asked to do a lot of self-evaluation and hopefully learn that students and adults all more alike than different. Turn 2 Foundation support was used to help underwrite the program and provided a free t-shirt to each student and adult facilitator.
• Guest Speakers: Steve Baggett, who addressed more than 650 students about the dangers of smoking, the health risks, and that cigarettes are a gateway drug to other unhealthy behaviors such as substance and alcohol abuse.
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• Tom Cleveland, a guest lecturer who shared his struggle with emphysema as a result due to of years of smoking.

FOR PPS STAFF MEMBERS:

• No Disposable Kids: This program, supported by the Turn 2 Foundation, focused on the improvement of staff skills in dealing with student conflict. A key strategy of the NDK approach is to learn how to avoid power struggles with students, so as not to aggravate student behavioral problems.
• Substance Abuse Awareness: By using Turn 2 Foundation funding, Portage Public Schools were able to demonstrate how to identify student substance use to high school staff members. This program also included a contact list for staff members if concerns need to be reported.