Drug Awareness

Red Ribbon Week: The Enrique Camerena Story
http://www.RedRibbonWorks.org/Article.asp?L1=the_red_ribbon&Name=TheEnriqueCamarenaStory

Here is the story of Enrique Camarena, whose life inspired Red Ribbon Week, an annual nationwide drug-awareness event that celebrates drug-free youth. Nearly 80 million Americans celebrate Red Ribbon Week. This site links to prevention resources, products, parent kits, ideas and activities and related organizations.

Texas Red Ribbon Week
http://www.tcada.state.tx.us/redribbon/redribbon.html

The Texas Red Ribbon Week site is a practical starting place to learn activities for your school and general community, tips for getting news coverage including a sample press release, newspaper ads and how to write a radio spot, plus proclamations and pledge cards. Here are all the nuts and bolts you need to build a terrific Red Ribbon Week program.

Help for Planning Your Red Ribbon Week
http://imdrugfree.com/activities.html

Imdrugfree.com helps you plan your Red Ribbon Week with a collection of ideas for theme days that you can host all during Red Ribbon Week; Decoration Day, Information Day, Faith Day, Reach Out Day, Wear Red Rally Day, Pledge Day, Recognition Day and Sports Day. The directions for staging each day are spelled out.

Red Ribbon Coalition
http://www.redribboncoalition.org/

The Red Ribbon Coalition Website was created by Irvine Community Drug Prevention (ICDP) in 1999 to assist school site prevention oordinators (parent, teacher and students volunteers) who are responsible for developing and hosting Red Ribbon Celebration activities at their school or in the communities. ICDP, a non-profit agency, hosts the REd ribbon Coalition web site and provides its web-based training services for free to these volunteers. To date, more than 5,000 school site prevention coordinators have used the online training workshop. Take a look. You can make a difference in someone's life.