NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Southcoast RAPPP Youth Council will be hosting a community briefing on the dangers of under-age drinking on Thursday, April 3, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Keith Middle School, Hathaway Boulevard in New Bedford.
      
“Take It Back” will outline the dangers and seriousness of under-age drinking through a multimedia presentation, dramatization and speak-out. Open to the public, parents are encouraged to bring their teenagers to this eye-opening presentation.
      
For more information, please call the Southcoast RAPPP Office at 508-994-0548.
Southcoast Hospitals’ RAPPP Youth Council is a service/learning curriculum funded in part by the Massachusetts Service Alliance and Southcoast Hospitals Group. Members of the Youth Council represent five schools in the Greater New Bedford region: Bristol Agricultural High School in Dighton; New Bedford High School; Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School; Normandin Junior High School; and West Side High School. Areas of interest for the Youth Council are environmental, violence prevention and youth risk behaviors.

About Southcoast Hospitals’ RAPPP Program

The Southcoast Hospitals’ RAPPP (Responsible Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Parenting & Prevention) program began as an adolescent pregnancy prevention program designed to be used within the curriculum of the health or science department of high and junior high school systems. Since its inception the RAPPP program has touched more than 20,000 teens and parents, including more than 12,000 students through its in-school programs at area senior and junior high schools. All materials, models, staff support and training are free of charge to the participating schools as part of the Southcoast Hospitals Group
community benefits program.  

The Southcoast RAPPP program also offers parents and adolescents a place to go to find answers about those difficult questions. The Southcoast RAPPP Family Education Youth Resource Center at Dartmouth Place, 49 State Road, Pequot Building, Suite 105 in Dartmouth, offers free information, tools and workshops for today’s parents, youth and practitioners. Call for hours and more information 508-994-0548 or go to www.southcoast.org/rappp/.

Southcoast Health System

Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of advanced health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast has more than 40 ancillary facilities, including the Southcoast Health Van, home health care, hospice and infusion services, numerous outpatient medical services, an assisted living facility and a wellness center. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.

Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.

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