‘The truth about youth!’

Are all young people the same?

Or do the majority make healthy, safe choices?

How can we change young people's attitudes and perceptions to risky behaviours including drugs, alcohol, teenage pregnancy and knife crime? Come and find out more about exciting and innovative ways of engaging young people and encouraging them to make safe sensible choices.

‘Truth About Youth’ conference

• Thursday 16 Sept 2010, 9am – 4pm
• University of Bedfordshire, Polhill Campus, Bedford, MK41 9EA

With key note speaker Professor Wesley Perkins of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, leading authority on the social norms approach. This event is an outcome of a three year research project, part funded by local authority and DCSF.

Programme & Workshops

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Click here for information on the workshops and to register for the conference.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Wesley Perkins

Professor Perkins has published extensive research on alcohol and other drug problems among college students, adolescents, and young-to-middle aged adults in professional journals and is editor of a recent book on The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse. He was a pioneer in work uncovering peer misperceptions of alcohol and other drug norms and developed the theory underlying the social norms approach to prevention. He also conducts research on problems of collegiate children of alcoholics, gender-related aspects of drug use, stress and drinking, religious-ethnic differences in drinking and other drug use, and evaluation studies of secondary school and university environments.

H. Wesley Perkins, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Department of Anthropology and Sociology Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York, USA

www.AlcoholEducationProject.org

www.YouthHealthSafety.org

Directions to Polhill

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