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Radnor High School Hosting Teen Vaping Informational Program

Learn how young people are being impacted by vaping and ways they can be helped to break away from various external pressures.

WAYNE, PA — The Radnor High School Alliance for Safe Kids is inviting the school community to an informational event on vaping and teens.

A program called "Teen Vaping, It's Not Just a Mist" will be held at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 18 in the Radnor High School Black Box Theatre.

The program will involve discussion regarding the ways young people are being impacted by vaping and ways they can be helped to break away from various external pressures. Vaping can involve flavored liquids, nicotine, or cannabis.

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Attendees will learn about the implications of each, the dangers of vaping among teens, the types of vaping devices, and where youth are getting the vaping paraphernalia.

Featured speakers are Linda Schanne, chair of the Radnor Township Board of Health and Clinical Nurse Educator at Bryn Mawr Hospital, and Michael Blanche, a licensed clinical social worker and leading expert in the field of prevention who has more than 19 years of experience providing direct clinical treatment for those who are diagnosed with both addiction and other psychological issues.

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The Radnor High School Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) facilitates and promotes positive life choices by raising awareness for Radnor students, parents and teachers about at risk behaviors through supportive and developed informational programming.

Register to attend the program here.

Radnor High School is located at 130 King of Prussia Road in Wayne.

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