WELCOME TO
OCM BOCES YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Summer 2008
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Kathy Miller: ADAPEP Program Monitor kamiller@ocmboces
Sue Thorne : Adminstrative Aide sthorne@ocmboces
Youth Development is a process that prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and experiences that help them become socially, morally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively independent.
Our goal is to promote social competencies and life skills, such as decision making, problem solving, communication and resistance skills, and stress management techniques in order to reduce risk taking behavior.
The OCM BOCES Youth Development program offers a wide range of assistance to school districts in the area of alcohol and substance abuse prevention. This year we will begin an effort to raise the awareness of gambling as an issue for young people and their families.The ADAPEP program is one of our most popular efforts and currently has services in 17 school districts and over 80 school buildings K-12. We are available to provide workshops, staff development and curricular information and resources for schools interested in bolstering the assessment and intervention strategies for their staff in the drug and alcohol prevention arena. We have a wide range of contact information for speakers for presentations for students, staff and parents. In addition we maintain a resource library of videos, books and curricular materials that may be borrowed.
Please feel free to contact Debbie Tennant if you have any questions at 315-433-2609
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OCM BOCES is a proud sponsor of the Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show
Check out their website at: http://drugquizshow.org/
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SEARCH Institute Onondaga County Aggregate data has been removed from this website. Please contact Debbie Tennant if you would like this information: dtennant@ocmboces.org.
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6075 East Molloy Road
Rodax #7 PO Box 4774
Syracuse, New York 13022
315-433-2609 Fax: 315-431-8567
