Presentations Begin and LEADers Meet

As January comes to a close, LEADers are beginning to visit their local elementary schools and present to students on the dangers of drugs, alcohol and making bad decisions. Last week, LEADers from Susquehanna Valley presented to 4th and 5th graders at Donnelly and Brookside Elementary Schools, and LEADers from Bainbridge-Guilford presented to 2nd-5th graders at Greenlawn Elementary. These presentations have been excellent, and elementary students have been receptive to the positive messages that they've been taught.

Coming up this week, YES! LEADers from RT Stank Middle School will also be doing their first presentations, and we look forward to checking them out.

On Saturday, we also held our first LEADership Advisory Committee meeting of the year, inviting our representatives from each group to come and meet each other as well as discuss where their groups stand on different issues. The topics covered included our fall trainings, Community Outreach Projects and this year's Rewards Event. It proved informative not just for YES! staff, but for the LEADers as well as they were able t0 voice concerns and problems they were having, and bounce ideas off of each other in order to try and help solve them.

YES! Safe Choices for Kids is looking to host another of these meetings in March or April.