Drug Awareness
During the school year of 2006/2007 a group of D’Arcy and Symmes students combined worked on a project with Polly Green to create a drug awareness tool for our school board. A short documentary style film entitled Our Point of View was completed and ready for use in our schools November of 2007. The film includes a round table discussion among the youth on their thoughts and opinions of substance abuse along with a senior student sharing her own personal story. During the week of Nov. 19-23rd ( National Drug Awareness Week), Our Point of View was aired for the first time for a private audience at the Cinema d’Aylmer. The evening was a great success and the project is now in a new phase of having youth focus groups in different regions of the Board evaluating the film and helping to create an activity guide to go with the film when it is ready to be circulated within the WQSB.
If you would like more information about the project, please do not hesitate to call Polly Green, Social Aid Technician responsible for Drug Awarenss for the WQSB at 819-684-1313 ext 339 or pgreen@wqsb.qc.ca.
Kathy Teasdale - Director of ENRICH - funded majority of project |
Erica Tomkinson - works with Polly |
Left to right - Colleen Nash [friend], Emily Nesbitt and Ashley Beaudoin |
Left to right - Colleen Nash [friend], Emily Nesbitt and Ashley Beaudoin |
Charlene Maurice - Facilitates Healthy Lifestyles Program Franny Maloney - Counsellor/Teacher at D'Arcy / Symmes |
L to R - Ashley Beaudoin, Emily Nesbitt, Brian Cahill, Melissa Francoeur, Joey Daigle, Polly Green, Samantha Dupont and Michael Vincent Moore |
The student who drew the template for this logo is hoping to go on to study in the Arts and jumped on the opportunity to design the sleeve cover. She wanted to portray an image of choosing a path. Her original idea was to have two homes at the end of a path, one house being perfect and dreamy like, the other being battered and falling apart. She then changed her idea and did the dragon design. The dragon reflects her style of drawing, so it came easier to her to do this. It represents, again, making a choice or choosing the right path. One dragon is lustrous without flaws, while the other is tattered and scared. The use of a dragon for this project was also appropriate in the sense that some use the expression of “Chasing the dragon” to signify using an illegal drug. Jasmine is a student at D’Arcy McGee.