Programs for Training

Choice Theory

With guest speaker Jay Apicelli

In this session youth will learn that their choices can control outcomes (positive and negative).  Youth learn about the 7 Deadly Habits in relationship building as well as the 7 Caring Habits. Trainer: Jay Apicelli creates a world of understanding about everyday choices and how we can influence and improve outcomes.

Guiding Good Choices

A Family Resiliency Program for Parents of Pre-Teens

Guiding Good Choices is a five-week series for parents of 8 to 14-year-olds that teaches key strategies for families to implement that will specifically reduce a child's risk of getting involved with alcohol or drugs.  Learn how to communicate expectations, standards and love that will guide the important choices our children make in the teen years.

Talking early and often will make a difference in the teen years.

This engaging and interactive series offers positive, common sense strategies for dealing with both the everyday issues of parenting today’s youth—friends, junk food, internet and stress, as well as serious issues such as substance abuse prevention. You will learn how the “little things” –talking one-on-one, setting boundaries, offering guidance, and modeling positive behavior—make a BIG difference in helping your teen be healthy and successful.

Who Should Attend?  Parents and Caregivers of 8-14 year olds

Series Includes:

• Parenting Workshops open to parents and caregivers
• Pizza dinner generously dontated by coalition partners
• Fun incentives

COST IS FREE!

For more information, please contact the CADY office at 603-536-9793.

Lunch-n-Learn Forums

Lunch-n-Learn Educational Forums are hosted by CADY on a quarterly basis. Past topics have included:

• Saving Lives: Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
• Illegal Access and Abuse of Prescription Drugs
• Not What the Doctor Ordered – Prescription Drug Safety
• Marijuana: Reading the Smoke Signals
• Teen Assessment Survey Results and Discussion

Addressing the issue of substance abuse requires a sustained and cooperative effort between parents, schools, law enforcement, health professionals, civic and community leaders, and our youth. We hope you will join us at an upcoming Lunch –n-Learn to learn more about the issues affecting our community.

There is no Lunch-n-Learn forum currently scheduled. We do maintain an email contact list and send invitations to upcoming forums. If you wish to be added to that email list, please call the CADY office at 603-536-9793, or email Claire Moorhead, Marketing Coordinator at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

CADY is also seeking sponsors for upcoming Lunch-n-Learn Forums.

If you or your business would like to help sponsor an event, please contact Claire Moorhead, Marketing Coordinator at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Prime For Life Under 21

CADY serves as a referral source for the "Prime For Life "Under 21", a curriculum for all ages that teaches the science of addiction and how it begins early with social and psychologocial dependence.  Whatever the substance, the stages and key points of prevention are constant.  Learn about how genetics and biology combine with quantity and frequencey of use to define risk.

A compelling prevention curriculum for all ages.

Prime for Life Under 21 is a powerful educational series used as a resource and referral program for alcohol problems and other chemical dependency. It is offered to professionals and parents alike.

Please contact the CADY Office for referral information 603-536-9793.

Suicide Prevention and Intervention Training

It takes a community to prevent suicide

For Educators, Mental Health, Prevention, and Substance Abuse Treatment Providers.

Educators, mental health, and substance abuse treatment providers are on the front lines of suicide prevention efforts.  Designated a National Best Practice program, Connect training utilizes a unique community-based, public health approach designed to increase the competence of mental health and substance abuse treatment providers in recognizing and responding to individuals who are suicidal or at risk for suicide. Connect Suicide Prevention and Intervention Training for mental health and substance abuse providers includes a review of National Best Practice suicide prevention/intervention policies and procedures specific to the mental health and substance abuse fields, interactive case scenarios and discussion on how to integrate key community services for an effective and comprehensive response.  Here are few highlights of the training; Participants will:

• Learn national best practices for response to suicidal behaviors.
• Review risk and protective factors and warning signs for suicide.
• Develop skills for intervening with clients, students and those at risk and connecting them with appropriate resources.
• Gain strategies for promoting help-seeking behavior and reducing stigmatizing attitudes in their community.
• Review best practices concerning lethal means restriction, safe messaging, communication and media inquiries.
• Learn skills to communicate with parents/guardians/family members or other support persons during crisis situations.
• Strategies for connecting with other health and mental health provider systems.

To register, call CADY at 603-536-9793.

Payment is due the day of the training, checks should be made payable to:

CADY Inc.
94 Highland Street
Plymouth, NH 03264
603-536-9793

Think About It: You and the Law

CADY’s Restorative Justice Presentation Gets Youth to “Think About It”

Here are some of the MYTHS about shoplifting:

• “It doesn’t hurt anyone.”
• “I won’t get caught.”
• “It doesn’t cost the store anything.”
• “People who shoplift don’t have any money.”

Here are some of the FACTS about shoplifting:

• 89% of kids say they know other kids who shoplift
• Retailers lose $25 million A DAY to shoplifting
• There are an estimated 23 million shoplifters in our nation today (approximately one in every 11 Americans)
• Shoplifters steal in all types of stores…69% say they steal in department stores, 63% supermarkets, 57% specialty shops, 54% convenience stores, 47% drug stores and 27% all other types stores.

The above information is flashed across the screen as CADY (Communities for Alcohol-and-Drug-free Youth) brings its power point presentation to the youth at the Pemi-Baker Academy. Upon seeing and reading the myths there are a few snickers and whispers among the students present, but upon seeing the second slide about shoplifting facts, the reaction is louder and more one of amazement. “Wow, are you serious?!” are among the comments heard.
 
CADY’s Restorative Justice Program’s presentation, “Think About It: You and the Law” is bringing an important message to area youth - breaking the law will affect you and the people around you, including your family, your friends, and the community!

The presentation, revised and expanded from one developed by the Merrimack County Juvenile Diversion Program, is intended to educate youth about the realities of laws often broken by their age group. It provides them with information about the NH laws that affect them.  Topics covered in the presentation include shoplifting, criminal liability, harassment, theft, false reports, bullying, simple assault, arson, criminal mischief, drugs/alcohol, reckless conduct, and criminal threatening.

Designing the power point presentation was a collaborative effort by Shelly Golden, formerly CADY’s Youth Services & Restorative Justice (RJ) Coordinator, and Corinne Provost a former  work-study student at CADY and also a Criminal Justice major at PSU. Also contributing to the quality and development of the program were Terry Johnson, Juvenile Probation and Parole Officer, Cheryl Paulhus, PRHS Social Worker, and Chief Steve Temperino of the Plymouth Police Department.

Shelly, Corinne and other CADY team members shared the presentation with the students at the Pemi-Baker Academy (PBA). PBA offered to work with CADY to experience the first pilot presentation of the program in January of 2009. Students were attentive and asked very good questions – many having to do with consequences of illegal actions. In addition to being amazed by the facts about shoplifting, students had questions in understanding the concepts of criminal threatening and simple assault. In this age of technology they were interested to learn that criminal threatening can even apply to text messages and emails. “There was great dialogue going on” says Golden, “The information on the slides really got them talking – and thinking!” One of the most important messages the presentation leaves with students is that breaking the law will give you a permanent record that may affect your life in many ways:

• Fines and other consequences such as, community service and/or educational classes
• Losing trust of parents and those close to you
• Getting accepted to college and loss of potential scholarships
• Getting a Job

The Restorative Justice program is just one part of CADY’s outreach and work in the community. Restorative Justice is a community-based diversion model program that focuses on accountability, restitution to both victim and the community, and personal growth of the youth.  This includes an accountability process that shifts the offender role from that of passive avoidance to active participant and is designed to reduce recidivism, reduce costs to communities, and to promote lasting behavior change.  The restorative process promotes dialogue between stakeholders through a community panel to discuss consequences of the crime, harm to the victim, and to direct needed action by the offenders via completion of accountability plans.

If you or your organization is interested in learning more about the Restorative Justice program, or would like to schedule a presentation of “Think About It:  You and the Law,” contact Tim Tyler, Restorative Justice Coordinator at the CADY office at 603-536-9793.