A snippet into a week of NineZero engaging youth:
Last week, Volunteer and previous NineZero Peer Educator at Ramona High School, Katie and I, traveled to Yucaipa High School for a full day of presentations. The day was fabulous and students and faculty are excited to be trained next school year and become NineZero Peer Educators themselves.
The students had a wide range of questions, like other high school classes about the fact that it is preventable, the scope of the damage to a baby, how can they help.
There was once class that took it a new level and wanted to ask and discuss about the consequences legally for women that do drink during pregnancy. If the woman is causing harm, what happens? If harm is done to a child CPS but what do you do when the harm is in the womb?
First, this is a great celebration of the thinking and academics students are receiving - to have a third level questions of the realities and ramifications of FASD is fabulous.
Second, it opened up into the whole can of worms about rights, pregnancy, choice, responsibility, etc. And allowed students to see even more reason to speak out and share the information - to all, not just to who they think needs to hear it because what they learned was that there is no one demographic, FASD shows up in the homes of the wealthy and the poor.
This is why Peer-to-Peer is so successful!! Students engaged, thinking, and making change!
Last week, Volunteer and previous NineZero Peer Educator at Ramona High School, Katie and I, traveled to Yucaipa High School for a full day of presentations. The day was fabulous and students and faculty are excited to be trained next school year and become NineZero Peer Educators themselves.
The students had a wide range of questions, like other high school classes about the fact that it is preventable, the scope of the damage to a baby, how can they help.
There was once class that took it a new level and wanted to ask and discuss about the consequences legally for women that do drink during pregnancy. If the woman is causing harm, what happens? If harm is done to a child CPS but what do you do when the harm is in the womb?
First, this is a great celebration of the thinking and academics students are receiving - to have a third level questions of the realities and ramifications of FASD is fabulous.
Second, it opened up into the whole can of worms about rights, pregnancy, choice, responsibility, etc. And allowed students to see even more reason to speak out and share the information - to all, not just to who they think needs to hear it because what they learned was that there is no one demographic, FASD shows up in the homes of the wealthy and the poor.
This is why Peer-to-Peer is so successful!! Students engaged, thinking, and making change!
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