Plans for the Future...5/5/2015

Initially, my idea for my CAS project centered around learning the drug curriculum and going out to the middle schools and presenting. It also centered around getting the Neural Activity Club at Palisade implemented and be a leader in running it every week. Now that these things have been done, Callie, Kiara and I want to move on to something bigger. We will continue to present to middle schools and be leaders in the Palisade club, however, we wanted to do something that was connected but somewhat separate, in that we solely are planning this from ground zero. We are going to have an informational Drug Night at the beginning of next school year for parents and students. This will entail multiple areas of planning, from coordinating the people we want there (such as the police office, Chad - the Neural Activity coordinator, etc.) to what we want to do with it overall. This is something we have discussed and know we will do for a fact, but we are still in the planning stage and will utilize the summer to get this all figured out. This problem really is of global significance because people and teens all over the world are influenced by drugs. On trains in Europe, there are blue lights in the bathrooms so that people aren't able to find their veins to be able to shoot up with heroin. 1 in 20 people aged 15 to 64 have used an illegal drug worldwide just in 2009, and the number is on the rise. It is a global phenomenon among teens who feel like they have to participate in drugs to fit in or to give themselves a synthetic artificial high, and I know that with Neural Activity, we are combating this by giving teens an outlet to these negative influences.