Dan Ruggles from the Three Rivers Police in St. Joseph County added that there had been advertisements during the holiday season, and as a result, no MIPs at all. Their coalition has two projects going at the moment. The second is a breakfast for high school students on the subject of the connection between alcohol and violence. Jeanne explained that out-Wayne County is not a community, but rather many separate communities, so the Wayne County CRUD is refocusing. They will need to decide if they concentrate on a few communities, or get much bigger and try to involve all.
Adults don ' t see the reality, and get angry when they hear it.
So they will be having a teacher in-service including a teen panel. Fay will be learning asset-building herself soon. Delores Evans passed around the first, second, and third place winning posters from their poster and essay contest. The posters will be reproduced and put up in the community. She also said that middle school young people come out for their teen advisory committee more than high school youth do.