Posters Help Promote Prom Safety At Area Schools
"I'm sure people notice 'em," said senior Karl Kahlenberg, a member of HEROES, a group at Two Rivers High School that focuses on healthy relationships.
However, Kahlenberg said he isn't sure how many students actually will take the message into consideration.
HEROES collaborated with the Holy Family Memorial Sexual Assault Resource Center, the Manitowoc County Abstinence Coalition and Healthiest Manitowoc County 2010 in offering a pre-prom poster contest open to all high schools in Manitowoc County. Two Rivers, Valders, Roncalli and Lincoln high schools chose to participate, according to Kris Jacobs, HEROES adviser.
This is the second year of the contest, but last year it was open just to TRHS students, said Jacobs, a prevention educator with the Sexual Assault Resource Center.
She'd like to see it expand statewide, and she said other prevention educators from around the state have asked her to e-mail the posters to them.
The posters were supposed to address drug and alcohol awareness or healthy relationships and needed to have a prom theme.
Alcohol and drug use often are associated with sexual activity and relationship violence, according to Jacobs.
One winner at each school will receive a $10 gas card, and two overall grand-prize winners each will receive a $25 gas card, Jacobs said.
Members of HEROES evaluated the movie posters as a group, and judges were brought in from the community. Those results determined the finalists, and members of the Manitowoc County Abstinence Coalition and the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention will select the winners.
Copies of a selection of posters from this year and last year, including this year's winners, will be distributed to high schools in Manitowoc County as well as to Denmark and Brillion high schools and an Oneida tribal school. The contest wasn't open to schools outside the county but they learned about it and requested posters.
March 09, 2010
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