Governors Prevention Partnership

The Corporate Honor Roll Breakfast is an annual event hosted by The Governor's Prevention Partnership to recognize and celebrate the investment businesses across Connecticut make in our youth through mentoring.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
At the Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut
8:30 to 10:00a.m. with registration and breakfast buffet beginning at 8:00a.m.

More than 100 businesses involved in mentoring will be honored at this special event. The program is from N ominate a business for the Corporate Honor Roll.

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In 2008, Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed a new law strengthening state and local efforts to prevent school bullying. Here, Gov. Rell speaks about The Partnership's new anti-bullying initiative, Operation Respect Connecticut, and its role in helping to end bullying and other violence in our schools.

Prevention News...At Your Fingertips
Connecticut News
Dec. 21: "Heroin Moves Into Connecticut Suburbia"
Heroin use has grown to epidemic proportions here in Connecticut and not just in the larger cities, reported The Hartford Courant. According to state and local police, the drug can now be found in every suburb and is most popular with 18- to 25-year-olds. There is evidence of heroin's growing popularity amongst the 13- to 17-year-old crowd as well. It's inexpensive to purchase (the average price is $4-$5 bag), making the drug more affordable than other opiates that its high mimics, such as OxyContin and Percocet. Peter Rockholz, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, said that close to 70 percent of heroin addiction starts with taking a pain medication from the family medicine cabinet, even if that medication is prescribed for someone else.

National Issues and Trends
Dec. 30: "Often, 10 warning signs can precede teen violence"
In mid-December 2007, there were several highly publicized incidents of teen violence. Could they have been prevented? Would the teenage perpetrators have chosen not to commit acts of violence if someone had reached out to them, offering help of some kind? No one knows for sure, however, The Orlando Sentinel interviewed a forensics psychologist and author of "How Children Become Violent," and noted 10 warning signs that can precede teen violence.

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