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| PARENT LEADERSHIP CORPS (PLC) |
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| A Peer Leadership Program for Adults |
| PLC reminds you of what’s really
important in communicating with kids: looking at them, listening to
them, and finding ways and making time to do that. |
| - PLC graduate |
| Comprehensive training
for school-based and community stakeholders as well as for parent
leaders |
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Stakeholders Training – focuses
on parent recruitment and program institutionalization |
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2-day Retreat for Parent Leaders
– focuses on program curriculum and facilitation
skills |
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1-day Follow-up Training for Parent
Leaders – includes further work on facilitation
skills and an expert-led workshop in Drug & Alcohol Basics |
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| Complete curriculum materials |
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Training Notebook for Parent Leaders
– teaches both PLC curriculum and facilitation
skills to parent leaders |
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Handbook for Parent Participants
– provides full curriculum for six 90-minute
sessions, to be led by local parent leaders |
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| Ongoing support and assessment |
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Site visits and consultation as
needed |
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| Funding |
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Program costs can be funded through
Character Education and/or Title IV (Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Act) grants offered by the NJ Department of Education |
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Timberlane
Middle School, , 51 South Timberlane Drive, Pennington, NJ
08534 |
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Contact: |
Steve Cochran, Principal
609-737-0200 |
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Northern
Burlington County Regional High School,
160 Mansfield Road
East, Columbus, NJ 08022 |
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Contact: |
Hank Kearns, Health Teacher
609-298-3900 |
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West
Windsor Plainsboro Middle Schools, PO Box 410, Plainsboro,
NJ 08536 |
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Contact: |
Liza Miller, Guidance Counselor
609-716-5300 |
| Experts agree that parents are the best preventives
to keep their children safe from substance use:
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“The Drug-Free New Jersey Middle School Survey on Substance
Abuse shows that children who communicate with their parents daily
– about anything, not just drugs – are 67% less likely
to abuse marijuana than children who don’t communicate as
often.”
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– Joseph P. Miele, Chairman,
Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey |
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“Our job is to relinquish control as we teach our middle-school
aged children decision-making…Parents still retain their
influence. In fact, at no other time in a child’s growth
is this more powerful and pivotal.”
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– Charlene C. Giannetti & Margaret Sangarese,
authors of Parenting 911 |
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“PSE&G Hosts Weekend
Retreat to Improve Parent Communication Skills,” Partners
in Progress, Winter 2002 |
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“Group will form parents
network to address child-raising questions,” Hillsborough
Beacon, February 22, 2002 |
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“WW-P program helps parents
talk to kids,” Metro Princeton – The Times,
February 11, 2001 |
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“Pilot program focuses on
parenting practices,” The Times, March 25, 2000 |
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