Walls of witness

Houses of god take 12-steps in creating family wellness in the face of drug and alcohol abuse

Unfortunately, most of our common knowledge about drugs—to include alcohol—has little or no ability to protect our faith community. All are at huge risk because we don’t even know what we don’t know about drugs today. “Common” drugs such as, marihuana, cocaine, heroin, and LSD have worse consequences than before. New drugs like “O.C.s,” “Roxies”, “Fruit Salad”, “Pharming”, ”Salvia”, “K-2”, “Spice”, and “Backpacking” are foreign to those of us who are expected to protect our kids. Based on your knowledge now could you help guide the members of your faith community either by preventing the use of or dealing with the ramifications of the use of these drugs?

Bob Stutman

Bob will talk about the old drugs we used to use that have been revitalized and the new drugs that most adults have never heard of….. Are we winning the drug war?

What is happening in our Middle Schools, High Schools, and Colleges?

Who are the drug users?

What are the accurate predictors of substance abuse?

What can we as a country, state, and community do about it?

Rev. Judine Duerwaechter, MDiv., MFT

Rev. Judine will talk about faith communities doing their best to prevent a substance abuse problem and learning how to deal with it should one present itself. She will take the overall situation that Bob Stutman will present and give it specific meaning to the clergy.

Prevention

Library

Church/Template as Sanctuary

Ministry Team Development

Resource Space

Resource Information

Epidemic Education

Youth Outreach/Investment

Interactive sessions with the audience; questions, discussions, specific issues.