Mora Junior High Above the Influence (ATI) students spend some time at the Mora Elementary in April. They joined sixth grade students at recess and enjoyed lunch with them. Mentoring younger students in an informal way helps ease tension and anxiety about moving to the Mora High School next year. Great work ATI students!
When Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why was released two years ago, depicting the life of a teenager who decided to take her own life, educators and psychologists warned the program could lead to copycat suicides. Now, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows that those concerns may have been warranted. In the month following the show’s debut […]
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has quickly become one of the biggest names in Hollywood opening up about depression. View video interview click here. “Depression doesn’t discriminate, and I thought that was an important part of the narrative if I was going to share a little bit of my story of the past,” he said. “Regardless […]
So your son or daughter has started vaping, using drugs or drinking. Is this just what kids do? Is it going to lead to other drugs, or become a problem? Don’t leave the answers to chance. How Worried Do I Need to Be? Ninety percent of addictions start during the teen years. Beginning at age […]
April 14, 2019 | KSTP.como | Video Story Link There have been a lot of headlines recently about e-cigarettes. It’s called vaping. E-cigarettes are marketed as being safer than cigarettes or a way to quit smoking tobacco. But vape juices mixed with high levels of nicotine are making teens “nic sick.” “One of the first […]
April 16, 2019 | Patti Miller | SACK Coordinator Tobacco 21. What do you know about raising the legal age to purchase tobacco/nicotine to age 21? Maybe you have heard that recently Isanti County passed a county wide ordinance that prevents the sale of tobacco to those under the age of 21. Do we all agree? […]