the msba or are we making them locally um I've tried to emphasize that partnership but you've had some experience with that yeah no the partnership with the msba has been great um you know we uh we have a project manager who works with us on a I would say daily basis right n uh who we can reach out to for any questions guides us through the process uh make sure we're understanding what the the the next step in the method is and and helping us make all the the definite timelines to keep this keep this on track and you know based upon town meeting timelines and needing approvals you know we we go plus or minus 6 months in the the the timeline for for certain things uh but but from from that perspective no they they've been great they do have a process that which ensures that all the schools are um go through the same exact uh process for the uh reimbursement uh and and you know once again we'll go through this to to determine what the reimbursement is which will be affected by energy saving measures uh visioning education uh standards uh and in the town um but going through that I I think the local portion of that is you know we we have you know who's our OPM we go through this process we locally select what our criteria is and then we bring that to the msba and then we'll have a meeting on okay yeah Coler met all of the the requirements for it let's go forward so it's a it's a good blend like we have a lot of local control on criteria and working directly with with the the the project managers and and everything else but at the same time the msba gives you a pretty good road map to to follow yeah I think you know I've been thinking about that lately they're you said it really well they're very tight on process but the the outcomes and the decisions are arrived at locally right and they ultimately want to get behind Solutions and projects that have local support that drive locally determined educational um outcomes and decisions so um that's been that has been our experience that there um that process is is really helpful to make sure that we're doing things properly and in ways that are are tried and true for sure uh and then I think the the other thing that um I've tried to emphasize along the way is um that there are decision that um are made locally on this and and we don't go through Gates without the involvement and engagement of the community so when we submitted a statement of interest that needed to be approved by the school committee and the select board when we sought funding for the feasibility study that had to be secured at town meeting and so the the there's other critical junctures where we would need the support and approval of the town where the where residents get to uh weigh in on and approve or frankly not approve the the recommendations of the building committee so you talk a little bit about that you know when when we arrive at a design and then the town's engagement at that point yeah I I got to say that um working with uh through this project uh it's been a great partnership with the town manager uh with the select board I've been in contact with members of the select board U Mr lavine's our our committee yeah um you know the the school committee Nicole has been uh wonderful so it's a really good collaborative process everybody has been moving in the same direction uh of course people are bringing up questions and asking along the way you know the appropriate questions of you know why are we doing this could we have done something different is there an alternative to this uh what's the cost uh implications of of of the decisions we're making and and so we are given that leeway uh as well by the msba um I think a key was the OPM negotiation uh Chad negotiated with Colliers we have presented what our negotiation with cers is to uh msba and we're hoping on October 2nd they agree with us but that is not something where they set like a price or not something that they say you can only pay this much or this little and you know Chad was able to appropriately negotiate with with the the vendor yeah uh and we we'll see that but then going forward there's going to be a lot of more Milestones that that we're going to need uh everybody to continue this uh you know path on where we are together and the only way we do that is by being transparent um having sessions like this having a bunch of sessing sensing sessions I will say our OPM uh has already put together a uh plan uh that that was presented to us about all the next steps on having Community engagement uh involving people in the community in in community sessions uh and to the point of getting them done but it goes so then we get to places I think where you're you're leading is um for the the next step of once we get past schematic design how do we get the project funded uh how do we get schematic design approved uh so we'll have to have Town meetings uh coming up in two or three years where we're definitely going to have to have um you know the engagement of the community to to take that to the next step and say hey is this what we want to go forward for uh our next uh school well said I mean ultimately the residents get to determine if the if the project scope and the project budget is makes sense for this community and that that's a that's an important uh that's an important Milestone that that's uh few years into the future for sure um and so you know it's it's an exciting opportunity for us certainly the msba is aware that we are uh interested in uh incorporating both Williams and Glenbrook uh into the feasibility study um technically the uh the Glenbrook statement of Interest was accepted but really we have an opportunity to study uh solutions that make sense for both schools and and one of those Solutions frankly has been the idea of a a single unified middle school and um you know we think that there's uh economies of scale educationally and fiscally that we can gain by having uh a combined site but again the feasibility study has to we have to go through that process to understand if a single sight solution makes sense educationally and makes sense fiscally with all the other um you know challenges that that might come with that so um so it's it's exciting work I want to just sort of publicly thank uh Armen is the chair of our um building committee and the entire building committee because uh their work has begun in Earnest they have been putting in some serious time and as we get into the feasibility study stage uh their work will continue to ramp up so uh I'd say consider this uh you know one of many opportunities that we will take advantage of to update the community and um as we as we move down this exciting path so Arman thanks for joining us today and um if anyone has any questions or ideas or thoughts uh we can be reached and our information is on the district website so thank [Music] you we come from a long line of farmers and there's a sense of Pride with being part of these 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thing about yourself uh something you're most looking forward to in the spring who would like to start I'll hi I'm Candace Matthew Healey representing parents on the steering committee and looking forward to the cherry blossoms to bloom here here not in DC cuz I'm not there yeah we do have cherry blossoms in Long Meadow there's lot yes we have one in our front yard so I'm looking forward to that when does it usually happen April okay fingers crossed it's coming thanks for coming Dr Healey hi Andrew Healey um health is my it's your sector that's right my sector and uh looking forward to my son coming home from school St Andrews from St Andrews correct see he's not graduating is he he's not okay but he's not supposed to graduate yes set that up well Paul he's not graduating no he's not he's not supposed to one more year one more year it's all the folks watching at hob he not supposed to graduate for another year um thank you what do you and you're looking forward to your son coming home Dr Lisa Taylor Kelly so many doctors I guess I'm also in the health sector you are um and I'm a I we're like in parent sector land here too um what am I looking most for I just love spring in general like just the weather's just right and everything is uh blooming and opening up and it makes me feel very hopeful so it is my favorite season so I'll just say that and the kids coming home for a bit till I'm ready to send them back it's like afterthought oh my um I'm Grace KY I'm a senior at long high school and I represent the youth sector and I'm looking forward to Sunny weather and you're doing track yes pull Vault yep are you you got in the colle didn't you I did get are you going to school um some school I don't know which one yet you don't know which one yet okay um congratulations got into a SCH uh Grace is awesome and super smart and you're going to do the pole vote please be safe of course isn't that the one where you're like 20 ft in the air um I'm not that good okay just a couple feet aoup the old the old two feet yeah two feet uh world record okay thanks Grace thanks for being here and and Vivian Welch will be here soon she she represents the youth sector as well she's babysitting yep uh my name is Tony Simmons I represent the law enforcement sector I oversee district attorney Anthony D gon's Community safety and Outreach Unit safety and Outreach unit one of the most prized units in DA gon's office Community safy yeah we love it thanks oh something you're excited about the spring Tony easy golf you play golf it's awful yes it's it's awful it just takes a lot time yeah it's been a long long winter and I can't wait to get out there that's it what's where do you play I um am a member at actually uh Edgewood uh country uh Club golf course and but I play Franconia veterans I'm in Chickapea I've gone the ranch um I've gone out to um uh crmp and fox I've gone in Bon so the ranch is fancy yeah the ranch yeah I'm not great I'm not good I just like the experience to be out there that's it I don't take it seriously and I bring a whole bunch of extra balls just in case just in case not a problem in case those kids come and steal them no they go you know just don't worry about you lose a ball you move on so that's it that's all thank you that's that's exciting well Happy Spring thanks good evening my name is Gina andelo I'm also from the hampon District Attorney's Office Community safety and Outreach unit and I will have to agree with Grace I'm just looking forward to warmer weather in general fantastic thanks for being here Gina you're welcome well welcome folks uh let's get started here's our steering committee um we have a bunch of members in the room right now we have Candace Healey Dr Andrew Healey Grace ketti Dr Lisa Taylor Kelly Vivian Welch will be here soon uh Reverend Charlotte laforest from St Andrews uh isn't able to make us it's it make it uh this week she's practicing many different events uh for Holy Week I'm not super familiar uh is it holy week coming up okay is it now or next week I am also unfamiliar you're you're unfamiliar okay Passover on it's leading up to Easter Su is on got it this coming Sunday March 31st cool and Chris Rich uh an awesome active herent and life coach in town uh also could make it so safe prom and grad season is coming up so I wanted to do some planning today I wanted to discuss some of the the things we've done in the past and try to figure out a plan for this year um and then the people that are in this room today I just would love feedback about a bunch of the strategies that we're planning on rolling out so a message this is a message that we sent out to parents last year uh a message about Cape week which is something that happens for graduating 12th graders um where they organize the same week on the cape usually it sounds like the sameish 3ish towns of uh Falmouth um Dennis and Brewster are the three more common towns to rent properties um and so this was a message that we had worked with the high school administrators to send out last year just basically giving parents the heads up about um social host liability um tips for parents about how to talk to your kids about drinking and binge drinking and the risks of of drinking and binge drinking um and then how to sign up as a Long Meadow safe home parent um so there's tons of parents that have signed up from the town of Long Meadow to to commit to being a substance-free home when other kids are spending time at their house so that's a message that went out in the in the spring last year uh and some of the messages the content were as follows uh party tips just how to host a party that's substance free or safe um or both uh so when your teen is hosting a party when your teen is attending a party tips for parents this is something that we're really excited that uh District Attorney gon's office developed last year the mass social host liability underage drinking and uh marijuana use it was a guide for parents that they developed which was really handy and useful we were super grateful and it's all about social host liability and then we sent out a bunch of messages on social media um this message is from the Frameworks Institute about keep keep problems from boiling over ensure your teens parties are alcohol free they talked about Youth Development and substance use as like it's a pot where the water is boiling uh when teenagers are developing um substance use can can help the pot boil over hey Dr Vivian Welsh um just just Vivian there's so many doctors in the room you just got your doctor um so we' been we shared a bunch of messages on social media about positive Youth Development uh if your team comes home home or drunk or high when parents are out of town things they can do uh the social host liability information for the state of Massachusetts we sent out a bunch of different uh messages that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health developed years ago they should probably update them because I think the the costs are probably even higher now um uh sharing information last year about social host liability a fine of up to $2,000 or imprisonment for up to a year or both if a parent uh furnishes knowingly or or or unknowingly to a minor uh alcohol or other substance IL illicit substances there was some Q&A just stuff about the social host law itself and this will come up a little later but the idea of uh it's almost right at the bottom it it's very hard to read from where you guys are sitting does the social host law apply if I rent a hotel room for my child's parties that's very specific to keep week yes since you control the hotel room the social host law applies um so you are still liable for what happens um at that party parents are the most important influence in their child's lives this is more messaging from the State Department of Public Health last year an action plan for parents about how to keep their spring safe and healthy for their graduating seniors and then we developed our own postcards that we sent out so every every household in Long Meadow uh got I believe it was three separate postcards all about social host liability and also normalizing that most parents don't serve alcohol or other substances to minors in their home so we're normalizing the fact that most parents are doing the right thing and this is all this is all messages that were developed for a campaign right here at the the curly meeting with parents that were involved last year hear nothing see nothing but you're still responsible for everything if teens drink in your home don't get caught with your head in the sand and these were like the backs of the postcards 92% of Longo parents don't allow teen drinking in their home keep up the great work that's the positive norm and this was I believe the first message that went out what are you doing checking their backpack backpacks for substances good so we wanted to like normalize just keeping an eye on your kids um possessions because that you can and you should when things are being brought into your home uh and then I had a conversation I thought this was super interesting I spoke recently with the deputy chief of Yarmouth Police Department um about what do you guys do when there's uh Cape week happening and long meow teenagers uh descending down on on Yarmouth uh for one week um and the conversation was incredibly enlightening uh local Massachusetts colleges and universities used to do this they'd organize a week where they have been drinking parties they'd rent hotel rooms um in Yarmouth but it's decreased dramatically recently especially with um a bunch of different things happening in the news where people are liable uh for for incidents and injuries and um communication has increased between the actual schools of like you know Northeastern Stonehill um and the town of Yarmouth uh the responsibility of minors lies on the parents that's something that sort of helped the police department shift their focus on like instead of just cracking down on teenagers that are showing up uh really having the responsibility lie on the parents who are you know in charge of these children's wellbeing uh 30,000 plus residents live in Yarmouth year round I think the deputy chief was really interested in sharing that it's not really a sleepy Beach town so it's not it's not a town that has nothing going on with no police officers there's a lot of police officers there's a lot of residents to support with local law enforcement um home checks are not available unlike the unlike the town of Long Meadow if you want the the PD to check your home if you're out of town you can just call them up and request that and if they have the time uh they'll check your home but the yth doesn't have the capacity to do that uh because they're busy responding to other calls um miners will be charged with possession they have been in the past in the town of Yarmouth uh parents must be contacted if there's an incident and the parent must retrieve that minor immediately uh meaning if they don't want their child to be uh charged and locked up they have to come and retrieve them immediately because the police department's not not responsible for miners um so when they break up parties that's what they have to do is essentially it's a huge time suck and resource suck on their part social host laws are real on the cape um he drew my attention to a teenager that was killed uh who who drowned accidentally in a pool in Denham Massachusetts in 2021 and it was the home of a Massachusetts state Troop um and the trooper and his wife were both charged uh and had to do believe a year in prison and then 3 years probation after that um so it's it's very real and so when parents it's sort of a sort of out of sight out of mind tradition I think for a lot of Long Meadow households and families um but it's just as risky as it would be in the town of Long Meadow if not more risky because it's more concentrated higher incident rate of of parties and Ben shrinking parties so that was something that we learned about uh just this week we talked with Yarmouth PD um this was a campaign we've used in the last few years it's a la sign campaign we had six more than 60 families sign up for the parents who host lose the most lwn sign campaign we wanted to develop new messaging we believe this year because uh and this I believe it was Chris rich and Dr Taylor Kelly I think you guys both brought this up when parents host um it's they aren't the ones who necessarily lose the most if there's a horrible incident that happens everybody in in the community is hurt by it so we wanted to change the messaging from something like uh when parents host everyone loses something like that so we can talk about that a little bit um did I want to oh uh yeah let me share a few resources and then uh we can get into some just some some discussion armchair expert I just this morning on the way to work uh listen to this episode I believe was aired this morning um Lisa deore and the whole conversation was around sub teenagers substance use self-regulation and it was just unbelievably timely and relevant to just the work we do and it was wicked interesting so I I recommend people listen to it uh it was super super interesting um I thought I knew a lot about teenagers and now I know a lot more about teenagers um yeah pay pay pay a listen to it and and if you are concerned about your child's substance use please contact Shel Warren uh for support uh she is the substance addiction uh response coordinator for the school district and she's phenomenal to work with so feel free to to check in with shelle Warren and have your child check in privately or independently as well just wanted to give that shout out to Shell um great well let's discuss so these are the things we've done in the past what should we do this year to prevent um risky substance use during pring graduation season I know our office is coming I think in late April for a stop the swerve presentation I think we have that on the calendar for the Long Meadow high students who drive I think we did that I think we typically would do that each year if I'm not mistaken around around the same time yes I believe so and what does that can you tell everyone what that means like what does that mean what is the stop the swerve K yeah so our stop the swerve presentation is one of many presentations that we do um for students um and it's we of course it's popular during prom season but we can do it whenever but IT addresses the dangers of impaired and distracted driving um so there's kind of like two parts to it the first part is we talk we show them a documentary and it and it has um I think two or three real stories of of um local people who got in the car impaired and and ended up killing someone who was in the car so they kind of tell their story and then we bring in an assistant district attorney who prosecutes vehicular homicide cases to kind of you know talk about the facts and the work that they do um to bring in you know the real life real life facts and experience when it comes to that um and it's usually pretty impactful it's a good program how long have you guys been doing this stop this were campaign oh goodness um longer than I've been around yeah um years and I've been around for for about five or six years so I say about seven eight years something like that we used to have a huge um competition down at the Basketball Hall of Fame you have a whole stop the S of event where we um um have a we show the video and then we have some stations where we uh show kids what it's like to um Drive impaired by we have some goggles that they use and we have different activities that they can compete in um but more importantly what we did we had a competition um a PSA competition and a billboard competition and at that time we gave away $10,000 to the schools who who who uh compete the the winner of both um billboard and and PSA and had to be around distracted driving we don't this year no we we the we it was funded by mad and since Co um they haven't come up with the funds yet but um we're hoping at some point to do that again cool but yeah the most of our like distracted driving um we do like because of the nature of the job that we do you know we reinforce the things that they've probably told uh been told by um the experience that we see the things that we see in our office the part that brings it to life is just real simple you know sort of cautionary tales about you know you really always need to wear your seat belt your car is designed to protect you the seat belt is a big thing because when the prosecutor says that he has seen many situations where someone was just triing 20 mil hour and they didn't have their seat belt and tragedy occurred so you know he sort of brings those um things to life and and we hope that kids listen to us especially because what they they see every day in their job I mean this community was hit pretty hard by a a fatal accident years ago came around yeah it's yeah did you speak so we actually yeah we did the presentation last year and at that point some time had pass but it was like a really heavy um environment I guess it was very odd and I don't mean to take up your time but um so there was this young lady that um we have a youth Advisory Board and she was from Long Meadow and she was on our youth advisory Bo board and um they did a project on the this very topic about distracted driving um and the scenario which they said is common was um not necessarily after prom but it's the Afterparty and so we did a whole skit around um a young girl that um you know her her older sister that was 17 was into gotten a car accident and um and as a result you know her her life was taken um so and that was a pretty impactful PSA that our youth advisor board members um put together uh the weird thing about it was um that year when we did that presentation the the main actor in that particular PSA was best friends with the young lady that was um whose life was taken I think she was an athlete um so um it's one of those things that we really in everything we do especially with distracted drive and we try to bring that across to to kids who otherwise won't necessarily listen to their teachers but when they hear real life instances and we bring it close to home it sort of has an impact sorry I lost my presentation do you need me to talk anymore find more keep talking Tony you know what I'll do is I'll find the date that we're going if you be interested to to to come how do you define distracted driv um we talk about any type of distractions uh not drinking not just driving but just having kids your friends in your car and and just not focusing on on on what you're doing at the whe whether it's your phone I mean we talk about an incident I think an incident that happened in um Long Meadow curve curve um I think it was 3 or four months ago um where the young lady she was not seat belted and she was um um doing this um in the passenger seat um on Tik Tock and the driver was driving his car and he hit a a a a I think it was a truck that was parked in on the side and she just flew right out of the car um and the thing about that had she been wearing her seat belt she may not have left the car because when she left the car she landed in the middle of the road and and then cars were coming by so and so so when we talk about those things and we bring the prosecutors that actually show up at the scenes um we TR just try to bring a level of this can really happen um whe and you can be just you could be a great person you could be me if I'm looking one way and turn the other way and there's a pedestrian and you've taken someone's life and that's not a good thing for anyone no one wants us you know that the thing about that type of crime is that it's um and I'm not a lawyer just I'm just saying that I work with prosecutors and that's not what I do but um with with that type of crime um is there's no intent so when this happens a person unless there's other extenuating circumstances it boils down to like some sort of manslaughter which the person doesn't necessarily go away for a long time and a lot of times they end up maybe at the sheriff's apartment for a little bit and then they go to his um the sheriff has a program on Mill Street um to address that substance because it's one of those things that the person didn't go out saying I wanted to kill someone you know it just happened and then you have a family that may think otherwise and want that person to to you know do a lot of time but sometimes in reality when it comes to the legal system you know they have to take all those things into account April 11th at 8:45 8 8:45 amm correct not day I think um assistant DA Tom Pendergrass I think he's coming he does really good jobor does an outstanding job Tom prand deast is in out there all the time awesome and he relates with the kids yeah thanks G I wanted to find something that's relevant to what you were just sharing so um distracted driving was something that keeps coming up in our data is something that's creeping up for young people uh and by distracted sorry I mean impaired so cannabis impaired driving particularly alcohol impair driving is on the decrease in town cannabis impaired driving is on the increase people that are in cars with someone who is driving so passengers who are in a car with someone who has been using cannabis is is rising even more rapidly um and so we're trying to think creatively and outside the box about how to respond to that and how to you know intervene as a community and um I so I approached uh Dr Anu pradan over at um's school of mechanical and industrial engineering um and he's the one who houses his Department houses is the the old Arbella distract Loy trailer do you guys remember that it was a trailer where heard Sim tried to get that actually they're very expensive yeah very expensive very real they're you can a picture of it right there so they're students are driving and they're using their phone at the same time so it was a way to assess uh uh distracted driving and how it impaired their driving um arella I tried to track down where this trailer was the the simulation trailer and they donated donated it to UMass and and Dr an pran's uh department so I reached out to him and lo and behold 6 months later we finished applying for a public service endowment Grant together uh that would bring the distract ly trailer to Long Meadows parking lot at the high school and at least 50 we would shoot for 100 students but at least 50 students that have their driver's license would be able to do uh cannabus impairment simulation and the way we're going to do that is there's those uh um inore does the the drinking impairment goggles they also have cannabis impairment goggles they're not like Incredibly Close to the the effect of cannabis but there's a few things that are similar so like it like messes up your perception a little bit um but there's things they can do in the simulation that can emulate the effects of cannabis which I thought was really interesting so like Delayed Reaction so like if uh if you see you know someone coming out into the road in this simulator you know you can drive around it can stop but the way they can like to the millisecond delay how quickly things can operate like steering wheel gas brake and so they can delay in similar ways to the way cannabis impairs your driving um how it delays your reaction time so that was really cool and there's a few other things where like the goggles take away the color red and make it look gray and so you wouldn't be able to see brake lights or stop signs and so yeah they're we're going to he's developing the simulation but we're going to try to I think it's like 15,000 bucks most of the money would actually go toward the students participating just getting 50 bucks to participate um and then the rest of the money would just be like snacks and other ways to advertise it hopefully we get the money um there's virtually no evidence that this is like a evidence-based practice but we were like we have to get creative because there's nothing out there right now um and we were like the most important thing is provide information for teenagers and will can we decrease their perception can we increase their perception of harm of driving cannabis impaired and we think because the the trailer is actually you guys both went there yeah Vivian and and Grace both saw the simulation you drove did you drive yeah you both drove uh did either of you drive with the the Cannabis impairment gos yeah we both did how did you do I honestly don't remember see that's an effect don't remember I don't remember anything um but it was harder to drive obviously with the can m i remember you just it was tricky you know it was tough uh yeah any other thoughts or memories of that experience um no yeah I one but there's one part where I think they like set it up this way so you can't see around this other car and there's like a pedestrian that like yeah jumps out to remember and every single time I think Grace and I hit them yeah probably cuz just so like it's just the way it's built but it's unless you like slow slow slow slow slow you're going to probably hit the person yeah so um but yeah it would definitely be helpful I think I think yeah and with the goggles if that person or that car was red or the person's wearing a red you can't see stop lights you can't see it and you can't see the stop lights so um that's not what happens when your can's impaired you can see the color red uh but it's the idea of like just changing your depth perception your color perception all sorts of stuff um yeah so we'll see I'll keep you guys posted on how the results go we just thought it'd be an interesting way to track if we can increase students perception of harm and then we asked that question on the survey this year too the school climate survey um how risky do you think it is to drive cannabis impaired because usually we ask have you driven cannabis impaired have you been a passenger in a car with someone driving cannabis impaired this year we're asking those same questions but we're also asking how risky is it to drive Canabis impair so now we're going to have a bunch of data on that before we even do this um this simulation uh hopefully we get funding for it it'd be cool oh and the funding we'll pay for the trailer to come down here cuz it's expensive to move this thing um but what an awesome partnership with UMass and he was super open to it because he does a ton of uh alcohol impairment simulation over at UMass they have an amazing did you guys see the simulator in that room I think maybe you guys got there later they just have like a really intense it's like an actual car it's great there screens like like virtual reality screen like all around it it was was very cool um so this is not as cool but mobile so that's useful um anyways what you guys were talking about with impair driving just made me think of that because that's one thing we're trying to do next spring can I ask is is the actual question how dangerous is it to drive um cannabis impaired I I just are you feeding information when you say impaired like is that going to skew your answer I as opposed to saying after using cannabis or oh yeah that's a good question uh well we already locked in the question this year but uh I think it well it's just a it's a lyer scale of like you know no risk slight risk some risk a lot of risk um and the question is uh yeah how risky do you think it is to drive impaired under the influence of cannabis or something like that I can find the exact question but it does it does lead the person answering it yeah um it doesn't it's not super vague it's pretty specific so yeah um so we we should kind of explain to you a little bit about what are uh some of our our distractive distracted driving events sort of look like and we have driving simulators not as sophisticated as that we looked at that and yet 17,000 I mean $15,000 I think um so so what our events will look like is we set up stations and we can do it in any um gym so one station will have two driving simulators um steering wheel and you we have um the screen in front of you and it sort of has the effects of driving you know whether the reaction time is sort of changed or or sort of fiddled with so that's part one the other station would be we have a um a map that's got like a line and sometimes we have the town's law enforcement you know school resource officer so to do like field sobriety test and we have these uh goggles the impairment goggles that they use um so they could you know determine what level of sobriety that person is and then have them do a simulated fi sobriety test and then another station will have um a maze that's it's like a sort of a maze that kids can draw you know start here and end here and like dry and then they um really hard when you have the go it's hard and then the goggles and they could tell you know how if they can go through the maze with the goggles on so they're assessing their impairment they're like oh I can't do it as Shir we have stopped the shirt swerve shirts that we'll give to them the winners and stuff like that and then um we uh there's South the town of Southwick they have the the police department they have an actual go-kart like a pedal cart not not gas and um we've used that and sometimes they'll loan that to towns other towns and we'll have cones that they'll set up and kids are actually you know pedal the go-karts around the cones with the impairment goggles on so that's something that we've done for schools you know more that's more interactive and not and then we'll couple that with maybe the following day we'll do the um do the presentation with the video and and have the guest speak of the ad be part of like all the same event matter of fact we're doing that in East Long Meadow soon one day we're going to go there and do the um the stations and the activities and the next day we're going to come in and do the presentation so that would be over like two days over two days or I mean it could be one day depends on um we can do it's really up to the school like sometimes sometimes the schedule they prefer it to do two days but in the past we have done um like the activities in the morning and then everyone meets in the auditorium and has um watches the documentary and hears from the speaker so kind of depending on schedule but in Long Meadow's case since we already you know we have the presentation scheduled if we wanted to you know come earlier in the week or whatever it may be and set up the stations we could easily do that is there any data I'm sorry I just keep bringing up the data thing like pre pre intervention surveys on how people feel about this and then post inter after they do it like a month later like have their opinions changed to just show like the impact of the intervention of the teaching um we we've done surveys um sort of um with schools after we've left it to um sort of let us know how their students um receive the information but quite honestly how we sort of um determine the effectiveness of any of our programs is whenever we go to schools and the kids rememb us from from the program and can literally tell us what we've talked about um whether it's social media which is a big thing or um or distracted driving or or or the one11 um we just tell the real stories our job is to get the information out there um compiled with with some stories to bring bring the humanity around the situation and and hopefully um it's a little bit more than than than students sort of reading it in a book uh um so but whether we can say okay we went to a school and the students did a survey and and you can determine how they felt at that point before the presentation versus how they felt after the presentation I don't know how how that'll work and how accurate that'll be um and one of the things that and we work with students a lot and especially the high school students one of the questions are um when they take the test and it's always been that question the youth risk behavior the prevention use assessments test or the yes um you know whether how how accurate those can be because kids are very very very sadly mhm they have to be yeah oh that was one thing I I heard in the podcast that was so interesting uh they talked about how the pandemic affected young people and their mental health cuz there was already sort of a looming Mental Health crisis with young people and then the pandemic happened and the two things that um that teenagers really need to have a healthy development during that stage of their growth is uh Independence and a really consistent supportive healthy social group and those two things are like the biggest things that took a hit during the pandemic so it just like completely exacerbated like all mental health negative outcomes so it's just something you made me thinkc come yeah um I what an amazing resource I know you guys did stop this swerve I didn't know you guys came here so regularly so that's so exciting I don't know how I haven't seen it here yet but I want to come fact check that I don't know if if we do it every single year or not there's a couple schools in Hampton County that we consistently go each year okay um I thought Long Meadow was one of them I know S one of them I remember this from last year okay do you remember this no I don't oh sorry but I definitely minog is one of them but now that Miss dra Wick's here it will consistently be a yearly thing yeah we' done a lot with her when she was at minog yeah um I remember a long time ago we did something in Long Meadow where they had the EMTs I mean they really acted it out and they had um they showed up and one of our youth advisor members pretended to be the one that was in the car was really think a car crash yeah yeah and we used to the high school used to participate in the campaign that you were that you were explaining before Noel arberg I remember was on the team that that won for a slogan oh oh yeah where they created a slogan I know Duncan was here when they did the the fake crash right talking yeah there's a lot of question as to whether the car and the Crash Thing Really Works or or how effective that is yeah so I wouldn't know but we just up to two weeks apparently this is what I've heard that's right up to two weeks of a behavioral impact after well they call it like fear-based intervention so there kids are so scared that see that they're like oh my gosh I don't want anything like that to happen to me and my friends which can be effective apparently up to about two weeks and then after that something happens where they kind of forget about it and other things come up and then it's less likely to have an impact that being said it's like if you can do the prom PR prom crash two weeks before you know yeah an event right go for it and if apparently it can be done poorly too or it can be done well so you know having kids that are really high-profile substance users and partyers like being the participants not a great move but like responsible kids that people respect and Trust like there's all these different ways to do it and not do it but yeah it's a it's a slippery slope so I've it's a big undertaking that I've sort of avoided as a prevention specialist but it can be super helpful I think that being said so we have this campaign right here the parents who host lose the most campaign um last year it came up the idea of how about when parents host everyone loses cuz we can do a new lawn sign campaign this spring and I wanted to get the pulse of the group in this room about what that message should be and how it should change and how it should look I like that I kind of like that message this is a like it national campaign when parents host parents who host lose the most um so we paid for the rights to advertise this but we could also just make up our own based on our own message which has but are there other National campaigns similar to it not like this not as good as well I don't know if it's they're not as good it's just we could come up with I just love the idea of when parents host everyone loses I think that that really resonated I think with the group last year doesn't rhyme doesn't rhyme it doesn't yeah oh that what you said the most I well it was it was my daughter who was the one who pointed out that she really didn't like these signs yeah and I told her she needed to work on a new slogan but I don't think her priority list that rhymes that rhymes does it have to rhyme I don't know no but I mean they lose a lot I mean that that is straight to the point I mean it's like you lose a lot whether you lose you just lose life yeah yeah your child legal unsafe costly let's say we were to play around with when parents host everyone loses even though it doesn't rhyme uh any kind of imagery that would be more effective or less effective than a gavl smashing down on something I mean it's directed at the parents I guess what what do and it doesn't seem to be directed at like the loss of like people loss of which is which is the losing the most and I think that that's what the problem was it's act I think I think what Megan was trying to say is that it's acting like you getting in trouble is losing the most but that's not who really lost the most parents don't lose the most it's the parents of the victims right that's a good point yeah especially here you see yeah so how do you highlight that yeah the graphics for that aren't great St yeah oh no highlight parents really I mean you can have like the conversation bubbles or something like that um highlight parents influence a parent talking to a child I'm just making stuff up y'all are the experts yeah I mean if the most you can lose is a life I like the signaling the tomstone isn't minut oh go dry you know what you're saying so you're Pro Tombstone I would I wouldn't be I mean I don't think it would have to be the only thing but okay um I'm so weary but yeah yeah I don't know the answer though I don't know I'm not worried about offending anybody yeah right oh I'm actually I'm not as concerned about offending I'm more concerned about uh just the message being lost on effected like that would there's that there's that that's true if there's an extreme it's that that would never happen to me that would never happen here and then is there a way to make it connect to actually this has happened here this does happen here yeah um maybe like a what's like a super iconic visual from the town of Long Meadow The Community House Center School Oh Oh you mean like a just like if you saw something in the background you'd be like oh that's the of Long Meadow oh say that that we all lose kind of thing well what about just fa no I'm just thinking like a message but then it's it just something visually that ties it to this community what's what's what's the most long meow thing ever besides sidewalks actually could we could include sidewalks children that are well above average you have nice pictures on the close website yeah those are Patty Gill's husband he took those those are amazing but what I'm just thinking if we're saying everyone loses I I I don't know faces that imply whatever children who are lost parents and uh friends or I I mean just faces many faces many faces that's a cool idea o I like that a lot you can get some really good um free images online just stuff like yeah like collage of just faces and then it can be sort of a little more opaque and then the font itself can be like a deep bold white so that pops but then you have just many faces I kind of like that huh okay other ideas Vivian you're like super graphic design smart I'm trying to think of like a good slogan like what's rhyming it's you want you want to stick with the rhyming it's something nothing coming up okay well you just keep thinking I will I know where to find you in the library parents who serve oh gosh make children swerve I don't you know what Dr Taylor Kelly that does [Laughter] Rhyme I'm not a poet you you know it I really know it now cuz I feel like I was just no that was I think that was a great swing and not everyone's supposed to play baseball yeah no I love I love it I love the ideas I just there's no bad ideas except for that last one if you just Google parents who host lcos there are some videos on here so they might have some ideas I'm not watching the right now but like there might be some more images in the videos maybe be so check out their resources but the goal is someone driving by reads this right not walk by the fine print well there's so many people that walk by which is helpful that's true CU we have sidewalks many sidewalks but the driveby is the most ideal like whoa there it is I see it and then they see it what 25 more times that week and then they finally read the whole message that's sort of the way I think but it's Al that and that's why the rhyming really works because it's like but is the target the parents or the students no parents parents making choices around hosting really there have been so much left alcohol based parties in Long the last few years I'm I'm more thinking about like parents sort of turning a Blind Eye of the cape week stuff happening of like that is such a huge risk it's such a huge liability and people just think well it's it can't nothing that bad can happen hopefully and it's like that it's just a matter of time before something off happens so parents who ignore oh boy what' you say oh boy come up I don't anything else I'm passing the ball to Andrew I can show he's got something I'm have to hear this all week at work okay well we don't have to we don't have to sit on it too long but I I would love people's input if you come up with an idea if you think of something in your free time Sho all the ones when I Googled um those who lose those who host lose the most it's all like um legal criminal justice yeah like there's a beer with handcuffs on it mhm um okay um how about the postcards that we sent out last spring something similar again just similar round of were those effective do you guys remember getting them in the mail I like the postcards I like the postcards should we be sending Long Meadow School data on the postcards there is it is yeah yeah it's a little bit hidden but yeah most % of long meow parents don't allow teen drinking in their home do you see that in the pink I I do see that I just wonder like but 70% of long high school student students survey said they did XY or you know like each I think it was a series of postcards and so each postcard has a different fact on it let me find another one uh most parents don't serve alcohol to minors see if I find another one I think there was one like um most parents do call before they send their kid to somebody else's house to make sure the parents are home or and we struggle with that message cuz it's so long but yeah it's basically like most parents are making a call to see what's going on is there going to be drinking is there going to be illicit activity you got to get going we can probably just up at 8:00 actually um but you can obviously still go I just need quiet time to focus on that R we'll be waiting yeah please please let us know um so another postcard campaign not a bad idea include more local data if possible um I can't agree more like that that seemed like a very positive message like 92% of most parents are doing the right thing yeah right but then also like you know there's still work that needs to be done because of X the 9% of whatever parents that do what are what kids are reporting in the schools or what's being observed or things like that oh I think he's saying like the stats where it like the you know where you know like you should be targeting on the fact that that kids think that being in a car with someone who's under the influence of cannabis isn't as dangerous as being in the car yeah we will have the data in time that I think that'd be really interesting the the impaired driving that's going to be new data so like you want to share some data that compels people to do more not just P themselves on the back oh 92% of us don't let our kids drink I think the Cannabis one is because I think that's at least I mean in our workplace it's it's very common and it's natural and it's legal and whatever I love that idea Andrew okay I can do that um usually we have messages I don't know why they weren't included in last campaign but it's basically like talk early talk often yeah that one teens are still listening oh parents still matter teens are still listening that kind of stuff um we came up with this last year about just parentals influence a parental influence on teen drinking cuz parents matter so much and like how you can influence um I think in particular parent substance use or parent drinking in front of kids there's a lot of parents just wondering like is it okay if I have a drink with dinner and it's like yeah sure um here's some here's some good uh some good strategies on having a less of a negative impact on your kids with your own drinking um and then I wanted to just show you a few things coming up I know Dr Taylor Kelly has to go but the rest of us I can get us out of here in 4 minutes um this is this year's social norms uh messaging campaign that's going to start in the high school in the next few weeks um the theme was LHS wrapped which is like a Spotify theme uh where can you explain one of you explain one of you young people Spotify WRA what is it it's like a yearly thing where it kind of just like highlights like I don't know the top genres that you listen to like the top artists um it's like not like a big deal but everyone always like Compares their people love getting that wrapped synopsis of the year in their Spotify account and so instead of Spotify logo it's like a logo for data which is fun um and it's all positive healthy social norms of the students at longm high school around drinking substance use vaping cannabis use what students are doing to relieve stress um lifening the music talking with friends and it's it's it's exciting so each of these will be their own posters and they'll go out for a couple of weeks uh through the participating teachers in their classrooms it'll be you know up upwards of 100 teachers that'll host these just edit the first one what does it say it has eight out of 10 but it says 75% well no uh so that's that's accurate it's mathematically Inc correct though what isn't if you round up 75 it's 8 right why would you put 80% though it improves your message but the percentage is not 80% the percentage was 75% like if you're rounding up 10 people it would be eight of those 10 people you're going to have some math people on you you can't do this you know what this is good people see it they question it I love it uh they question the validity yeah it makes them get rid of the percentage just do eight out of 10 yeah just say eight out of 10 yeah you're probably right yeah okay fine these aren't finalized we'll do it thanks for the Fe back he didn't want to say it out loud no I love he whispered he made me do it thank you for Whispering uh we have a prescription drug takeback Saturday April 27th we team up with Western New England University School of Pharmacy uh 10: to 11: on that Saturday morning so come on with your unwanted unused expired prescription drugs drop them off and we will collect them we had over 120 lbs uh in the fall so let's beat that record that's awesome that is really important Stu and that 120 s is pills aren't heavy so that's a lot of pills um we developed this for all the elementary nurses they sent these to every family in the elementary schools or they're sending them I think in the next month just around keeping alcohol cannabis and other harmful toxins in the family out of the reach of their kids uh and these are the tips on just poison prevention so you know substance prevention can start with the idea of poison prevention for younger brains mhm oh those are magnets these magnets went home and they hopefully go on everyone's fridge unless they have a cheap uh what do you call it stainless steel fake front of a fridge like I do and nothing sticks to it so you have to stick it to the side all right uh what else did I have these are opportunities for involvement if folks want to participate and any of our uh subcommittees reach out to me at paulos community.org our next meeting is Thursday May 23rd at 7 p.m. right here in room a15 and on lctv and thank you so much for joining us and this is you can connect with us on social media I hope you guys have a really safe and wonderful spring stay tuned for all of our safe prom and grad messaging wait what night is the prom the 30th okay we'll figure that out offline no I wanted to make sure it wasn't May 23rd cuz like oh jeez right around then you're 30th that would have been awful yeah okay thank you to none of us will be here thank you to lctv for hosting this and producing us tonight um have a great night folks I felt like I was thank your did you cut it off already Brian or oh boy okay they C