Community Living Above is based on community collaboration to engage, educate, and empower individuals and their families on Substance Use Disorder/Mental Health and the effect it has on our environments. We work to support youth and their families in preventing influences or experiences that don’t support being the best that they can be. We provide education, access to resources, and peer-to-peer encouragement so that they can make the best decisions for themselves to live a healthy life.
A Few Articles:
They booze, they Uber, but do parents know? Teens often escape parent accountability because they are considered (and in many ways are) good kids. But good and safe are not the same. In groups, teens experience an exponential increase in risk-taking behaviors. This, paired with alcohol shrinks the good while elevating the reckless. Too often, the GPA is dominant consideration in determining social freedoms. More so, the they’re going to do it anyhow (they will) mentality clouds more assertive parenting strategies. But is this a healthy paradigm from which to parent? As such, the acceptability of excessive teenage partying continues to decrease, and now encroaches into the middle school years.
How Young People Are Revolutionizing The Recovery Movement Riley grew up in Colorado and shares he began to struggle with addiction his junior and senior years of high school. “I was an AP student and I was involved in sports,” he shares. “By all accounts, I was a great kid, and I had an awesome family. But what people didn’t know was I had a growing substance use disorder.”
Do Not Allow Someone Else’s Teenagers To Drink In Your Home “You don’t get to host an underage drinking party for someone else’s minor children and use the excuse that you would “rather have them under your roof than on the street” or some other such defense. You don’t get to make those choices on behalf of another parent.”
Look for our annual events:
Adult Only talk – October 19
Facing Addiction, Community Organizing – November 19
Student Only talks – Fall – during school for students
Spring Mentor days – Spring
Monthly peer-to-peer meetings 3rd Friday of each month
Community Living Above Presents
Community Forum ~ Speaker Panel
Date: October 19, 2017
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: West Linn High School, Performing Arts Center
Details: Mental and substance use disorders can have a powerful effect on the health of individuals, their families, and their communities. samhsa.gov