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Recommended Readings

  • Buzzed by Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson
  • From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs by Winifred Rosen and Andrew T. Weil
  • Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine
  • Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age 1945-2000 by Martin Torgoff
  • Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence by Mitch Earleywine
  • Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts by Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D. and John P. Morgan, M.D
  • Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron
  • Real Boys by William Pollack, Ph.D.
  • Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
  • The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
  • Awakening the Heart by John Welwood
  • Bullying at Schools: What We Know and What We Can Do by Dan Olweus
  • The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander by Barbara Coloroso

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Recommended Speakers

Ellen Porter Honnet,  Ed.D.
Dr. Ellen Porter Honnet, is the Director of the Stanley H. King Counseling Institute.  At the Institute teachers and school personnel from independent schools both in the USA and abroad are trained in listening and counseling skills.  Ellen also lectures and provides workshops for schools, students, parents, peer counselors and colleges on topics ranging from teen brain development, sexuality and risk taking, to stress, depression, loss and coping in adolescence and advising and counseling. As a licensed psychologist she currently has a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts.

Dr. Honnet can be reached at: (617) 969-3430
dr.ellenporterhonnet@earthlink.net

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Recommended Websites

Alcohol Screening
AlcoholScreening.org is a free service of Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. AlcoholScreening.org helps individuals assess their own alcohol consumption patterns to determine if their drinking is likely to be harming their health or increasing their risk for future harm. Through education and referral, the site urges those whose drinking is harmful or hazardous to take positive action, and informs all adults who consume alcohol about guidelines and caveats for lower-risk drinking.

Alcoholic Solutions and Problems
This web site has been recognized for providing useful and balanced information on alcohol by librarians, health and medical sites, researchers, professors, and teachers.

Alcoholics Anonymous  Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Al-Anon and Alateen   For over 50 years, Al-Anon (which includes Alateen for younger members) has been offering hope and help to families and friends of alcoholics.

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America CADCA's mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of community coalitions to create safe, healthy and drug-free communities. The organization supports its members with technical assistance and training, public policy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences and special events.

Hazelden  Hazelden is a treatment center and the world’s leading publisher of materials on chemical dependency and other addictions and recovery.

Monitoring the Future MTF is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

Narcotics Anonymous  Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. They meet regularly to help each other stay clean.

National Institute on Drug Abuse This site provides reliable, factual data and is a valuable resource for parents and educators looking for effective ways to communicate with young people about alcohol and other drug use.

Pride Surveys Pride Surveys was created in 1982 by educators at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Their purpose was to help local schools measure student alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.

Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education The Safety First project was launched in 1999 after the San Francisco Chronicle published a letter written by Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum to her son, Johnny. As he was about to start high school, she wanted to outline her concerns about alcohol and other drugs that he might encounter in high school and provide some realistic strategies on how to stay safe.

Stop Bullying Now! Take a Stand, Lend a Hand, Stop Bullying Now! Campaign website.  Whether you’ve been bullied, you’ve witnessed bullying, you’ve bullied others or you’re just curious – you’ll have a lot of fun and learn a lot of things from this website – sections include; What bullying is, What you can do, Cool stuff, and What adults can do. 

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