give drugs the boot 2015
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Empowering our community to live healthy lives; by providing prevention, intervention, and recovery
services for children and adults.
Since 1957
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Impact• Over 60,000 children and adults were served in Bexar and
surrounding counties during the 2014-2015 school year.
• Over 6,000 children and chaperones will attend the annual Red Ribbon Rally Concerts performed by the Air Force Band of the West, which is happening this week.
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Help Be Part of the Solution• Problem: The average age of first use of alcohol in Texas is 12.6
• Solution: Prevention• Solution: Intervention• Solution: Recovery Services• Solution: Community Change
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Help Be Part of the Solution• Problem: 7,322 DWI arrests in Bexar County in 2014.
• Solution: Prevention• Solution: Intervention• Solution: Recovery Services• Solution: Community Change
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In 2014-2015 the Project Heart Youth Prevention Programs served 4,600 children in Bexar County.
87% of the children report• an increase in self-esteem • increase in healthy decision making • improve in academics • improve in social skills
Prevention
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Little Warriors Camp 2013-2015, SACADA provided
free summer day camp for children of military to over
190 children.
Prevention
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The Little Warriors Campers weren’t shy when it came time to
learn Hip Hop!
Prevention
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Little Warriors Camp included creative
sessions like drama.
Prevention
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In 2015, Little Warriors Campers received over
140 hours of prevention.
Prevention
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Prevention“ I love Project Heart because it helped me behave and because we talked about our anger. It made me a better person than who I was before Project Heart.”
– Third Grade Student
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Prevention“Project Heart is a place where I feel safe and makes a BIG difference in kids’ lives.”
– Third Grade Student
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Prevention“I thought I was a nothing but now I am feeling great and believing in myself. I feel all fixed.”
– Third Grade Student
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Intervention“SACADA helped me find additional emotional outlets instead of smoking weed.” – High School Student
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Recovery Support“I want to thank you for your support. You have given me a strength that I have never felt in myself before, to believe in myself more than I have.”
– Recovery Coach Client
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Recovery Support“My recovery coach taught me how to live life without using substances or continuing to engage in self-defeating behaviors.”
- Recovery Coach Client
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Recovery Support“Now I have a bed to sleep on, a roof over my head and food to
eat.”
- Reentry Participant
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Will you help us reach more children and “Give Drugs The Boot” in San Antonio?
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