Over 1,000 Craighead County Students to invade Downtown Jonesboro, Arkansas.October 18, 2013 (Jonesboro AR) - The Out of the Dark School Committee is proud to announce that State Drug Director Fran Flener will join over 1000 Craighead County students at their 3rd annual downtown“Leave Your Mark” student march/rally on Tuesday, October 22, 2013.
The “Stay Drug Free” student march will start at 11:00 a.m. at the intersection of Main St. and Cate St. followed by the “Leave Your Mark” student rally at 12:00 p.m. in front of the Craighead County Courthouse.
Rally participants will include student speakers from Bay Elementary, MacArthur Jr. High, Valley View High School and Jonesboro High School. Other scheduled speakers include State Drug Director Fran Flener, Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin, State Rep. Harold Copenhaver and Dr. Todd Clements.
"We are excited that our Craighead County Out of the Dark School Chapters have grown significantly over the past several years and that so many school representatives have stepped up to help our school chapters”, said Joyce Glenn, Chair of the OD School Committee. “It will take the entire community’s support to help our youth change the local drug environment. Our kids deserve a better future!” added Glenn.
Please help the Out of the Dark School Chapters by publishing the official “Leave Your Mark” flyer. Here is the link.
The state of Arkansas has reportedly had one of the highest rates in the nation for teens (12-19) misusing prescription pain narcotics since 2002 and by the end of 2007 the state was ranked No. 1 in the entire nation for teens abusing these highly addictive drugs. In order to address this rapid growth of chemical addiction, Out of the Dark Inc. started the Out of the Dark School Chapter community program in the spring of 2009. Since then the program has grown from a few students to over a 1,000 students representing all eight (8) public school districts in Craighead County. The school chapters are guided and networked by the Out of the Dark School Committee which is supported by the community through the Craighead Out of the Dark Coalition.
Since the creation of the Out of the Dark School Chapters, Craighead County student surveys have been reporting that the rate of teen’s abusing all addictive drugs have decreased dramatically. To learn more about Out of the Dark Inc. and its community “demand reduction” programs, please visitwww.outofthedark.org.
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