Questions for Wallingford parents - What are your concerns about your children regarding substance use and abuse? Do you care about the High School risk behavior survey results? If over half of high school seniors are drinking, should we be concerned - or is that OK? or expected by most? 

A Recovery High School in CT -What exactly is that?

So what is A "Recovery High School"? 
The purpose of a recovery high school is to focus on the 'recovery' issues while providing a safe and supportive environment while the students get a high school education for those that need it.
 Rep. Mary Mushinsky has presented a bill during this legislative session asking for funding to support this effort. This request is going to review with any number of other bills. 

We need you to write and email to your representatives in Hartford supporting this bill.

Click here for more details:
http://www.myrecordjournal.com/wallingford/wallingfordnews/6775880-129/mushinskys-bill-focuses-on-recovery-high-schools.html

What is the Coalition for a Better Wallingford?

The Coalition for a Better Wallingford is a grassroots organization established in 2012 as a result of alarming drug and alcohol addiction abuse statistics among teens and young adults in the Wallingford, CT community.  Me In Red Ribbon
Our Mission is to "Engage Wallingford's community resources to produce healthy, caring, and responsible citizens by raising awareness and reducing substance abuse among our youth."

Our focus was still on trying to understand the scope of pain and suffering wrapped around the inhuman totality of our substance abuse problem. The numbers are staggering – 93 confirmed dead, and counting. Overdose transports and emergency room traffic that boggles the mind. It was and still is to some extent, difficult to define and control all of the influences that contribute to this predicament we find ourselves in. Most people believe drug abuse will be woven into the fabric of our culture forever – and they are probably right.