Lee Rush

The Search Institute Reports on UBHCHY Coalition's Student Support Card

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Adapted from the Search Institute’s Article on the Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition.  Read the original article here. Upper Bucks Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth Coalition used the results of a recent Attitudes and Behaviors survey to create a “Student Support Card“ (UBSSC) for their community. The document displays the current levels of … Read more

Second Annual Performing Arts Festival Draws Local Crowds and Community Praise

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Four minutes to show time and there was not an empty seat to be seen.  It wasn’t Gaga or Beiber who enticed the crowd to fill the auditorium, but a group of talented teens, poets, singers, song writers and actors– the Lady Gagas of the future.  After folding chairs were hastily dragged into the hall to create another row, a hush fell over the crowd.  The show began. 

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Local Efforts During Third National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Results in Collection of over 165 pounds of Prescription Drugs

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The Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition (UBHCHY) participated in the third national Rx Drug Take Back event held on Saturday, October 29,2011. This event is coordinated nationally through the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and locally through the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission.

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First-Ever Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP) a Success

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Thanks to a two-year grant through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD), the area coalition in the Palisades community called Partners in Action for Community Togetherness (PACT) is sponsoring the research-based program called The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP).  

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2012 Youth Surveys Conducted, Results Revealed Early Next Year

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For the fourth time in the last ten years, the Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition (UBHCHY) has completed the bi-annual youth survey given to 3,000 students in 8th, 10th and 12th grades in the Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown schools.

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Annual Theatre Arts Fest to Take Place on December 11th

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justCommunity, Inc., is hosting the 2nd Annual Performing Arts Festival on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at 3:30 and 7 pm at the James Lorah House, 132 N. Main Street, Doylestown. In the spirit of promoting positive youth development, justCommunity has chosen the theme of this year’s festival as “What’s on Your Mind?”

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Insight into Assets: the Importance of a Caring Neighborhood

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This month’s is “Caring Neighborhood” which is defined as when a child experiences caring neighbors living nearby. When I think of this asset, I realize that we may all have a different view of what our “neighborhood” is. It makes me think of when I was a child growing up on Juniper Street in Quakertown.

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April 30th Drug Take-Back Day Results in 360 Pounds of Prescription Drugs Off Our Streets

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Prescription drug abuse by teenagers is increasing at alarming rates and is the second most abused type of drug after marijuana. To help stem this rising tide, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) sponsored its second national prescription drug “take back day” on April 30th.

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