The Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) joined forces with other teens and scientists across the United States as part of “National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week” (NDAFW). The week-long health observance, organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), both part of the National […]
Save A Life is a program designed by the Alliance for Safe Kids (ASK) to inform and empower high school students and adults to become community allies and first responders to support teens and families in crisis. Save A Life is one of ASK’s leading programs which has directly touched the lives of over 1,000 community […]
Check out 10 new and fun activities you can try with your family to help you stay connected to your teens: Create a vision board with your kids. What are your child’s goals this year? Cut out pictures from old magazines and print out inspiring quotes that represent what your child wants to achieve over […]
Use of heroin and other opioids is increasing among local high school students and even younger children in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to local drug counselors who are championing increased school-based efforts to combat addiction. During the 2014-15 school year, nine Westchester high school students told counselors with Student Assistance Services that they had used heroin. […]
According to the American Lung Association, hookah is a water pipe used to smoke a kind of tobacco called shisha. Shisha comes in different flavors and is also called nar-ghile, argileh, shisha, hubble-bubble, and goza. Hookah use began centuries ago in ancient Persia and India. Today, hookah cafés are gaining in popularity around the world, […]
Join the ranks of your friends and neighbors by giving a gift to support the Alliance for Safe Kids. All donations made by 11:59pm on December 31, 2015 will be matched – dollar-for-dollar! Please know that, regardless of the amount you choose to give, your gift supports an organization that works directly in the community where you live […]
You probably know about Twitter — the microblogging service that features 140-character “tweets” — but you may not realize how much of a staple it is in teens’ social media lives. According to the Pew Research Center’s Teens, Social Media & Technology Report, 33 percent of all American teens use Twitter and average 95 followers […]
If you’re enjoying the holidays with a drink, the Yorktown Police Department has a message for you: Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over. Due to the increase in drunk-driving-related fatalities around the holidays each year, law enforcement agencies across America will be actively searching for and arresting drunk drivers from December 16 to January 1. […]
There is no place like home, especially during the holiday season. At the Alliance for Safe Kids, our home is Yorktown. We live here and raise our families here. And thanks to help from friends like you, we are reshaping and improving our community.Several accomplishments over the past year illustrate our progress… Youth Mental Health—50 adults […]