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26 May

The 2014-2015 Youth Advisory Board Awards

This year, the GUIDE Youth Advisory Board (YAB) was full of fun, learning and community change from our busy meetings to our numerous projects, campaigns and events! How better to recap the year than by the GUIDE Golden YAB Awards! The first award is for this year’s...
21 May

DUI Checks Help Keep Our Roads Safe

Have you ever considered how checkpoints can help reduce and prevent underage drinking? Consider this: underage drinking cost Georgia citizens $1.2 billion in 2013. GUIDE is one of 41 providers working to reduce this very issue in Georgia. As such, one of our target...
11 May

GUIDE YAB Promotes Marijuana Awareness

Our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) recently inspired their peers with a marijuana awareness campaign. The YAB is a group of high school students from Gwinnett County who come together to learn leadership skills, provide input on various aspects of GUIDE programming and...
4 May

Team Building: Minute to Win It Series, Round 2

Welcome back for another installment of Minute to Win It games! If you missed the first post of this series, check out those games here. Below are some additional games that we have enjoyed playing in the past. These games are inexpensive to recreate as you most...
30 Apr

GUIDE Celebrates Alcohol Awareness Month 2015

Did you know that alcohol is the most widely abused substance among youth in Georgia and the U.S. and that consuming alcohol underage can have serious effects on the developing teenage brain? That is why preventing underage drinking is a priority nationally, statewide...
28 Apr

SPF Series: Stop, Drop and Evaluate

Our Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Series blog posts are coming to a close, but we have enjoyed going through each step with you. We hope that it has been a fun learning experience and that you will be able to take this information and put it into action. Here’s...
20 Apr

4 Reasons & 20 Seconds: Marijuana Is More Harmful Than You Think

As you may know, today is 4/20 (April 20th), a day often recognized as a holiday centered around smoking marijuana. At GUIDE, we believe that recreational marijuana use is harmful to both individuals and the community. Still, there is a lot of hype about the drug and...
16 Apr

GTI 2015 Staff “Branch Out” at Staff Development Weekend

We are in the midst of planning and preparing for the 27th Annual Georgia Teen Institute (GTI) coming up this June! Every year, in order to make this inspiring program a success, we rely on numerous staff members and other volunteers. These incredible people volunteer...
8 Apr

Team Building: Minute to Win It Series, Round 1

Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing Minute to Win It games for team building! These games originated from the popular NBC TV show, “Minute to Win It,” where contestants try to complete challenges with household items in 60 seconds or less to win up to one...
6 Apr

GUIDE Attends Substance Abuse Prevention Day

Do you believe in prevention? We do! So does Voices for Prevention (V4P), a newly formed coalition in Georgia that focuses on substance abuse prevention. In order to build a unified voice for this cause in the state, V4P collaborates with a committed group of...
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