Pubdate: Fri, 30 Mar 2007
Source: Langley Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Langley Times
Contact:  http://www.langleytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1230
Author: Al Irwin
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GRANT PROMOTES DRUG AWARENESS

A $7,500 provincial government grant will assist  Langley School
District teach Grade 7 students drug  awareness.

Langley Township Mayor Kurt Alberts on Monday presented  the cheque to
Leslie Klein, program co-ordinator for  the school district's
Community Methamphetamine  Response Funding Program.

The grant will pay in part for the drug and alcohol  worker who will
teach students about the dangers of  methamphetamine.

Alberts said the Grade 7s were felt to be the most  vulnerable, since
they were making the transition from  elementary school to high school.

The program will also re-inforce the message the  students got two
years earlier through the D.A.R.E.  (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
Program for Grade 5  students in the district.

Alberts said the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce  and the RCMP
will also be involved in the program, and  the Sunrise Rotary Club has
raised funds for a  documentary that will be used with the Grade 7
program.

"In today's world, it is appropriate to say: It takes a  village to
raise a healthy child," Klein said.

Klein said the district already has a counsellor  working with the
Grade 7 and the response has been  good.

"We are finding. . . that the parents are finding it  very
useful."

She said parents appreciate have another adult on side,  because
parents have trouble talking to their children  about drugs.
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