Posts from the “Youth Programming” Category
Youth Prevention Program’s Anti-Substance Abuse Training for Parents Featured in The Gate
The Youth Prevention Program’s work with Hedges Elementary School and the Peace and Education Coalition to prevent youth substance abuse was recently profiled in The Gate newspaper. Program staff work with parents in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, helping them develop strategies for talking with their kids about drugs and alcohol and preventing their … [Read More…]
HAS to Sponsor talk by Dr. Luis Zayas
HAS is excited to co-sponsor a talk by Dr. Luis Zayas, Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work / Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Zayas will be discussing his recent book, Latinas Attempting Suicide, which explores the sociocultural and developmental processes that influence suicidal behavior among adolescent Latinas. The … [Read More…]
Local Press Coverage of HAS Community Event
Please see today’s North Lawndale News for coverage of the unveiling of “A Celebration of Family life,” youth-created public artwork on display at our Western Avenue site. The article is available in English and Spanish. The Back of the Yards newspaper The Gate also published an interesting piece about the event. It’s available here. Read … [Read More…]
Photos from Friday’s unveiling ceremony are available
Thanks to everyone who came out for the unveiling of “A Celebration of Family Life,” the new mosaic sculptures that will be on permanent display at out Western Avenue site. Youth Prevention participants, together with Urban Gateways artist Nicole Beck, created the sculptures as a project designed to encourage self-expression and provide a positive alternative … [Read More…]
Helen C. Peirce School Supports HAS with Bake Sale
On June 9, 2011, HAS CEO Marco Jacome and Youth Treatment Manager Julia Romero visited Edgewater’s Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies to talk about the importance of avoiding drugs and alcohol—and to thank Spanish teacher Maria Roche and her class for their support. Earlier in the year, Ms. Roche’s class completed a research … [Read More…]
HAS Youth Treatment Program Featured in La Raza
The HAS Youth Treatment Program and its manager, Julia Romero, are profiled in La Raza’s feature article for May 21, 2011. The article, “Jovenes en las Garras del Alcohol” (Youth in Alcohol’s Clutch), is available here.
Melva Q., Youth Treatment
Melva Q used to think that alcohol use—sometimes heavy alcohol use—was a normal teenage pastime, just another way to have fun. “I was going to parties all the time,†she says. “I thought I was just enjoying life, living it to the fullest.†That changed in 2009 when Melva, then seventeen, was charged with underage … [Read More…]
