Monthly Archives: June 2009

Late night fun!

By Mario | June 29, 2009

LATE NIGHT FUN! This simple saying may attract a lot of people, and it got stuck in my head for a while. It was junior year of high school, when I started to have a huge social life. It was the end of the year and I was so stoked for senior year — basically, [...]

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New podcast online: Straight Up covers VC’s THINK event

By Adult Author | June 28, 2009

A student attempts an obstacle course, while wearing “beer googles,” eyewear designed to recreate the feeling and vision of impaired driving. Straight Up checks out a recent event called THINK, put on by students and faculty of Ventura College, intended to bring awareness to the issues of drinking, impaired driving, and substance abuse. We talk [...]

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Conversations for Parents

By Katherine | June 28, 2009

As Director of Straight Up Ventura County and an interactive workshop facilitator, I have the opportunity to participate in many discussions with groups of youth about issues related to underage and binge drinking. The subject of parents’ influence is often a meaningful part of these discussions.  Because we also talk with parents regularly, I often ask young [...]

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Leaders of Tomorrow

By Shawn | June 13, 2009

Straight Up Ventura County held its first ever Leadership Retreat on May 14th, and I was very impressed. Not because of the work that the Straight Up staff put into the event — although I should say here that it took a lot of work to pull this thing off, and the staff members did [...]

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The end of the party

By Becky | June 12, 2009

Prom season is winding down, and with it comes the usual grim news stories and statistics. Every year, there’s a permanent end of the party for someone — a partygoer, an adult, an innocent bystander.

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The more things change, the more things stay the same

By Adult Author | June 7, 2009

Sometimes the stories I hear through my research and work with Straight Up are grim — depressing reminders that unsafe behavior (binge drinking and impaired driving)  can lead to destructive and fatal results. It can be overwhelming, seeing the almost-daily accounts of car accidents, incidents of alcohol poisoning, underage parties, and more. I sometimes think [...]

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