Derby Neck Library to host body safety puppet show Monday

 

Derby Police post info on Internet safety training Thursday via Zoom

 

This is shared from the Derby PD Facebook page.

Parents invited to Internet Safety program at Ansonia High School

*Information shared from Ansonia Public Schools' Facebook page.

Internet safety talk slated at Perry Hill School in Shelton

Derby Library to host games, Internet safety talk for teens

DERBY - The Derby Public Library Teen Chess Club invites all young adults ages 12 to 17 to meetings each Monday in November from 6:30-7:30 p.m. 

All skill levels are welcome. Participants will learn how the game is played as well as defensive/offensive strategies. 

Julio Maldonado provides superb expertise from a life-long love for the game. 

YA Wednesdays

The Library hosts YA Wednesdays every month from 6-7:30 p.m. All young adults ages 12 to 17 are invited to join the fun Nov. 4 and 18. Nintendo Wii, board games and Legos will be available. 

Light refreshments will be provided. 

Teen Talk

The Library invites all young adults ages 12 to 17 to Teen Talk – On-Line Safety, Thursday, Nov. 5, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., to uncover and help avoid pitfalls of the Internet and social media. 

Registration is requested. 

For more information stop by the Library at 313 Elizabeth St., call 203-736-1482, or visit www.derbypubliclibrary.org.

This is a press release from Tony DeLos, young adult librarian, Derby Public Library.

Workshop at Shelton Senior Center to focus on avoiding fraud

* Sharing this from the Valley Council for Health and Human Services' Facebook page.


Learn more about the AARP Fraud Watch Network by clicking here.

VSAAC to present community awards at conference in New Haven

NEW HAVEN - The Greater Valley Substance Abuse Action Council will host its 25^th Anniversary A Piece of the Prevention Puzzle Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24 at Anthony’s Ocean View, 450 Lighthouse Road.

This year’s conference focuses on Internet safety, emotional intelligence, and prescription pill and heroin use. 

Participants will learn practical tools and skills from nationally recognized experts. 
The cost of the workshop is $75. Continental breakfast and deli lunch are included and continuing education and training credits are available.

Theresa Conroy

Carol Cruz

The conference will also feature VSAAC’s 2015 Community Champion Awards. 

The awards are given to those in the community who take action and effect change in the field of substance abuse prevention and/or intervention activities.

The awards spotlight and applaud the work that is being done to help prevent substance abuse on the grass-roots, community level. 
It is work that is absolutely critical to VSAAC’s efforts to keep our kids safe from alcohol, tobacco, drug use, suicide, risky behaviors, and promote good mental health in the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Greater New Haven and surrounding communities.

This year’s Community Champions include Carol Cruz, CCAR Project Manager for the Young Adult and Families Program; Jeffrey Nielsen, Sergeant, Milford Police Department; Theresa Conroy, State Representative, APRN for Minute Clinic and Pina Violano, Injury Prevention Coordinator, Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Jeffrey Nielsen

Pina Violano

For more information or to register, visit www.vsaac.org

This is a press release from VSAAC, a program of BHcare. 

VSAAC is a public/private partnership comprised of community leaders and citizens who develop and carry out strategies to reduce alcohol, tobacco, drug use, suicide, risky behaviors, and promote good mental health among youth and, over time, among adults through community education, community mobilization, public awareness, and advocacy in the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Greater New Haven and surrounding communities.