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Party 101: Consequences - Curriculum Guide
Party 101: Consequences - Curriculum Guide
This Curriculum Guide is designed to accompany the video Party 101: Consequences. Its purpose is to ignite a new awareness and discussion among students, parents and teachers.
We want these materials to help empower young people to discover their own solutions to lifethreatening behavior. In doing so, we hope they will come to understand how valuable they are in our families and communities.
This guide presents an overview and ideas to jump-start discussions, and it presents activities for students, parents and teachers. Click here to download the guide now.
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Party 101: Top StoriesParty 101: Teen Shares Drinking ConsequencesThis week on KFDX, we're highlighting the problem of teenage alcohol use and abuse. It will culminate in a special town hall meeting Thursday evening at Barwise Junior High. The average age of Texas youth's first drink is 12. Behind the stats a...
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Drinking Statistics
Drinking Statistics
In 2002, alcohol was blamed in the deaths of 614 Texans under the age of 21, almost five times the number of youth deaths due to all other illicit drugs combined.
The average age for first use of beer is 12.4 in Texas. Alcohol continues to be the most widely used substance among Texas students in grades 7-12 with 71% of students reporting they had used alcohol at some point in their lives.
More than 165,000 Texas teens say they have gone to school drunk, (more than 9% of all students). Read more...
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