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Current Projects
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Check out the PCCCC Youth Committee recently featured on MSG Varsity:
"Students Making a Difference"
The Third Annual Community Expo at Band Night
Tuesday, June 5th
6pm - 8pm
Port Chester High School's Ryan Stadium
Cabaret Cafe
Tuesday, May 22nd
Port Chester Senior Center * 222 Grace Church Street
3:30pm - 5:00pm
FAMILY U -
Check out what workshops we have to offer by clicking here
You can register by printing the registration form here
Once your registration form is completed please mail to:
Port Chester Cares Community Coalition
C/O CCS
P.O. box 322
Port Chester, NY 10573
March 27th, 2012 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Port Chester Middle School
SAVE THE DATE
FREE Family Film Night
Noche de Cine Familiar GRATIS
First Fridays! - July 1st, August 5th and September 2nd
Primeros Viernes de Verano
Participating restaurants and discounts
Descuento
If you, or someone you know did not receive their card please contact 255-4856
Walk For Gabby
Saturday, May 21st
Port Chester High School
Register Here!
Family U! March 29th 6 - 9 pm at Port Chester Middle School
FREE Family Film Night: Friday, December 17th, 2010
FREE Family Film Night, Port Chester Celebrates Family Day 2010
Collaboration with Adolescent Health Task Force
Parent Support Groups
NiteStar - December 16th 6 - 8 at Carver Center
“The Best I Can Be!” The show discusses the physical and emotional changes and challenges during the pre-adolescent and adolescent years, and uses drama, song, and dance to help encourage healthier choices for young people. It features a facilitated discussion for the parents and adult care givers of Port Chester adolescents, and will cover topics such as abstinence, puberty, healthy negotiations, refusal skills, personal boundaries, "good touch - bad touch," peer pressure and parent-child communication.
 
 
Debra Haffner - January 13th 6 - 8 at Port Chester Middle School
Acclaimed author Debra Haffner will be speaking about “WHAT EVERY 21ST-CENTURY PARENT NEEDS TO KNOW Reverend Debra W. Haffner has been a parenting educator for more than twenty-five years and speaks regularly to parent groups across the country. The author of award-winning books, including From Diapers to Dating and Beyond the Big Talk, she appears frequently on national TV, including CNN, Today, and The O’Reilly Factor. WHAT EVERY 21ST-CENTURY PARENT NEEDS TO KNOW will explores a range of issues facing today’s parents and helps put the alarming news stories and statistics that we see every day into perspective. Teaching the characteristics of an affirming parent: Both nurturing and firm, and equally demanding and responsive. In WHAT EVERY 21ST-CENTURY PARENT NEEDS TO KNOW, Haffner shows how affirming parents should approach each of today’s challenges in raising a child or teen and addresses: stress, self-esteem, drinking, achievement, drugs, Internet safety, cell phones, social networking Web sites, depression, sports, bullying, faith, abstinence, and sex.
Ticket to SOAR
Skills, Opportunity And Recognition
Click to see our current ticket winners!
The coalition seeks to provide greater opportunities and recognition for youth to be positively bonded to the community, learning new skills, and being acknowledged for such involvement. This program will help to foster bonding to the community, a key underpinning of the Social Development Strategy and a core component of the community mobilizing process. Starting in the Port Chester - Rye Union Free School District this coming Spring, Teachers, Administrators, Coaches and all school faculty will be provided with "Tickets" that they may issue to youth at any time for displaying pro-social behaviors. Any youth who receives a ticket will be publically recognized in the coalition newsletter. A letter will also be mailed home to the parents of that student applauding them for their prosocial involvement. The students with the most tickets at the end of each quarter will be recognized with a reward. By spring of next year we hope to send the program out into the community so that youth can be recognized for their prosocial involvement all over Port Chester. The coalitions youth committee will be most involved with the development of this program
Resource Card
The coalition made a resource card with all the service providers information and emergency numbers in Port Chester. This card was distributed to all middle and high school students during Physcial Education class. There are a wealth of services in Port Chester and with the help of a resource card community members will become more aware of current sources and information available locally.
Resource Guide
The coalition also made a aresource guide for adults consisting of many social services both available through Port Chester as well as through the county. This guide will be hand delivered to parents during back to school night fall 2009.
School Survey
In May of 2009, the students in grades, 8, 10 and 12 were surveyed to better understand and assess the risk and protective factors in Port Chester. The survey was first distributed in May 2007. The Coalition will continue to survey every 2 years in order to assess the progress of the coalitions work as well as gear for a more specific set of strategies and initiatives, based on the needs of our community.
Merchant Education
The coalitions youth committee will begin to educate the off premise alcohol sales businesses about the dangers of selling alcohol to underage customers. The youth will also be involved in an initiative to ask businesses in Port Chester to make alcohol slightly less visible in their stores by moving or removing advertisements, or putting alcohol on higher shelves or in the back of the room.
Operation Storefront
This summer a group of youth who were trainined in media literacy will be traveling to local businesses in the community. At these businesses they will be observing how many alcohol and tobacco advertisements cover the storefront window displays as well as the number of ads and promotions indoors. This will also help with PCCCC's merchant education in the future.
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