Attend Family Dinner Night!

Dinner Makes a Differences

Did you know that one way to reduce teen drinking
and drug use is by having frequent family dinners? Teens that have infrequent
family dinners are twice as likely to use tobacco or marijuana, more than one
and a half times likelier to use alcohol, and twice as likely to expect to try
drugs in the future. (Source: casafamilyday.org)

More than a decade of research by The National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
at Columbia University has consistently found that the more often kids eat
dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use
drugs.

Family Day: Eat Dinner with Your Children  is national movement launched in 2001 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse to  promote the parental engagement fostered during frequent family dinners as a simple, effective way to prevent substance
abuse in kids.

The Healthy Communities-Healthy Kids Coalition is
hosting their first ever Family Dinner Night on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the HK Middle School Cafeteria. Dinner will be provided
free-of-charge and door prizes will be available! This event helps to promote
family dinners and support parents. Please bring your family and join us at
this great event!

Please RVSP to Kathryn Glendon, Prevention
Coordinator, at 860-345-7498 or kglendon@hkyfs.org

It is important to remember that YOU are the more
potent and underutilized tool to prevent your children from using substances
and engaging in risky behavior.