Thank you for visiting my blog page on our newly configured website!  A very special thanks to Don Houk who has assisted us with improving and updating The Alliance’s web site.  Now that I have a forum in which to express my thoughts, I hope to provide updates that are beneficial to all that read them.

Both Kay and I had a busy summer season preparing for this year’s Alliance programs.  We had an opportunity to visit most all of our member schools and faith based institutions to schedule parent/student programs we will be offering over the course of this school year.  I am very pleased to announce that the majority of our member schools will be offering our “Listen” parent/5thgrade student program, and our faith based community will be offering parent/middle and high school students with Alliance programs as well.

With the introduction of our newest prevention video: “Teen’s Talking”, we will create a special workbook for parents and students along with talking points for continued discussion at home.  These new tools will be the focus for our student leadership workshops later this school year and for a parent/middle and high school student program (currently a work in progress) that will become a follow up to our “Listen” program.

Also being developed this coming year is a new prevention video being created by the office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General addressing prescription drug abuse.  This video will be an excellent addition to our video of the month program.  Speaking of which, we will be kicking off the video of the month program mid October.  All of our member schools and churches will be participating in this program by providing their families with a direct link from their website to ours.  We anticipate that during this year’s video of the month program, thousands of families will view our library of prevention videos.  Dr. Wille will monitor the “hits” to this site and I’ll keep you updated on its progress.

We kicked off this school year with 2 special Alliance programs in September: an Administrators training lunch and a community resource fair.  Both were well attended and hopefully will become programs that are offered annually.  I wish to give a very special thanks to the community agencies that supported our fair by providing a booth, and to Mr. Bill Sanders for his uplifting keynote address that was an inspiration to all.  I would also like to thank the many school and church leaders and faculty, as well as the parents and student leaders that attended as our guests.  I’m hopeful that you all found the day’s program rewarding.

Thank you for visiting my page.  I hope you will return often to our website to watch for updates on programs the Alliance will be hosting across our communities, and will take a few minutes to read my updates.  I am grateful for the opportunity to serve our community and always have an ear for those in need.

God bless!

Debbie