Stop Medicine Abuse: New Website

Medicine abuse and teens unfortunate is not new, but this year www.StopMedicineAbuse.org rolled out a new and updated website full of educational tools, downloads, brochures, posters, and other resources to help your and your family and community fight medicine abuse.

About them:

The prevention campaign StopMedicineAbuse.org and its Five Moms initiative is working to alert parents and members of the community about the problem of teen abuse of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicines containing dextromethorphan (DXM).

In 2004, national surveys began to track abuse of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine among teens. Experts predicted, “abuse among adolescents most likely will increase, as the drug is relatively easy to obtain and inexpensive.  Moreover, adolescents perceive the risk in abusing the drug as low.”
This was a call to action.

To fight the potential rise of teen DXM use, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) launched the Five Moms: Stopping Cough Medicine Abuse campaign to raise awareness about teen DXM abuse and offer peer-to-peer guidance on how to prevent it. Following the success of the Five Moms campaign, CHPA created StopMedicineAbuse.org to serve as the online home for Five Moms and provide valuable resources for parents and their communities. Together, these initiatives have reached millions of parents to date.

Sue Scheff: SchooGo - Website full of EDUCATIONAL Information!

What a fantastic new website I found - all about education, schools, articles, tips, resources and more!

About SchooGo:

SchooGo is an online resource that provides information regarding pre-k, elementary, middle and high school across the US and allows parents to evaluate public schools based on academic performance, student and teacher statistics, and parent and teacher reviews.
We maintain a comprehensive nationwide database of more than 125,000 public, private and charter k-12 schools and 100,000 preschools across the 50 U.S. states. The data on the site about the schools is very useful to the parents who need to evaluate several potential schools for their children.

Information is key, and putting that information in front of parents gives families the necessary tools to make the best school decisions for their children. SchooGo allows parents to do the following:

Find: A comprehensive database that gives parents the ability to easily search hundreds of school in a community, whether public, private, or charter. Parents can search in a number of different ways including: searching by city, state, zip code; searching by school name or school district; or searching by proximity to an address

Compare: SchooGo allows parents to compare schools side by side. You can compare the public schools on academic scores, student and teacher statistics and student demographics.
Evaluate: Evaluate public schools based on academic performance, student and teacher statistics, and parent and teacher reviews.

SchooGo also lets parents to share ratings and reviews of their children’s schools which in turn help other parents to make the best school decisions for their children.

Follow them on Twitter @SchooGo