Where ,When, and Who: Playground to pills… took place on 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the Oconomowoc Arts Center located at 641 East Forest Street, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The seminar was sponsored by multiple partners, Rosecrance, Oconomowoc Parent Education Network(OPEN), OASD, Your Choice, and Rogers, just to name a few. Presenters included Dr. Thomas Wright, MD of Rosecrance Treatment Centers, Dr. Brian Fidlin, Psy. D., Alissa Darin, Kettle Moraine AODA Counselor, Deana Marincic, MSW, LCSW, Scott Bakkum, School Counselor/AODA Program Coordinator of Oconomowoc High School, Lisa Dawes, Director of Student Services-OASD, and Sandy and Tyler Lybert from Your Choice. The Emcee of the event was Joyce Garbaciak of ABC channel 12.
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Almost every speaker made use of the large screen for PowerPoints and movies. The Attorney General gave examples of the public announcements that are being rolled out to target children and show the dangers of the use of opiates. Statistics were put up to show validity to the importance for change. One speaker, Deanna Marincic, shared pictures of herself and her brother growing up and to the point of his passing to make the problem more real to people who have not under gone the pain involved with being close to a person with a drug addiction.
Auditory Learning Style: The speakers presented themselves as authorities on these subjects so there was a lot of time spent on lectures. The words carrying assumed weight they spoke out of their various expertise. There was also a short advertisement campaign that showed the dangers of opiates and drug use.
Kinesthetic Learning Style: This learning style did not apply to this seminar. There was a traveling exhibit “In My Shoes” that depicted some teens work done in art therapy during their time at Rosecrance that were being hospitalized for substance abuse. (Photos are …show more content…
Couple of different recovery hospitals were present with information booths. One of the most interesting exhibits “In My Shoes”, were shoes that some teen patients at Rosecrance had wrote on to tell their different stories. Many of the shoes gave the observer of the inability for these children to choose. I myself have a background in heavy cocaine use, none the less found myself tearing up for these young adults and the prison they had found themselves in. Each shoe, or sandal, was very unique in the story they told and each one in my opinion, priceless. I was emotional before the seminar even started. The whole seminar took over two and a half hours and still not all represented were able to speak. There were people in different stages in recovery. I would say for the most part it was people with loved ones who are addicts or concerned parents trying to learn more about a threat to children in our
Target Population: The …show more content…
Almost every speaker made use of the large screen for PowerPoints and movies. The Attorney General gave examples of the public announcements that are being rolled out to target children and show the dangers of the use of opiates. Statistics were put up to show validity to the importance for change. One speaker, Deanna Marincic, shared pictures of herself and her brother growing up and to the point of his passing to make the problem more real to people who have not under gone the pain involved with being close to a person with a drug addiction.
Auditory Learning Style: The speakers presented themselves as authorities on these subjects so there was a lot of time spent on lectures. The words carrying assumed weight they spoke out of their various expertise. There was also a short advertisement campaign that showed the dangers of opiates and drug use.
Kinesthetic Learning Style: This learning style did not apply to this seminar. There was a traveling exhibit “In My Shoes” that depicted some teens work done in art therapy during their time at Rosecrance that were being hospitalized for substance abuse. (Photos are …show more content…
Couple of different recovery hospitals were present with information booths. One of the most interesting exhibits “In My Shoes”, were shoes that some teen patients at Rosecrance had wrote on to tell their different stories. Many of the shoes gave the observer of the inability for these children to choose. I myself have a background in heavy cocaine use, none the less found myself tearing up for these young adults and the prison they had found themselves in. Each shoe, or sandal, was very unique in the story they told and each one in my opinion, priceless. I was emotional before the seminar even started. The whole seminar took over two and a half hours and still not all represented were able to speak. There were people in different stages in recovery. I would say for the most part it was people with loved ones who are addicts or concerned parents trying to learn more about a threat to children in our