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• ‘ « d C» * • • • ' * < » 4 • 4 4 .4^ « > » » « « TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Ask Raven Raven will answer your questions about problems associated with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Look for boxes in tribal offices with Raven’s picture. You can leave your questions for Raven in these boxes. Those suitable for Siletz News will be answered here. If you want a confidential answer to a question, please leave an address and Raven will contact you. TLC Attitudes of Gratitude Kids on the JOBS The Women's Transitional Living Center begins another month full of gratitude for the support we’re receiving from the Siletz community and beyond. First and foremost is appreciation for volunteers who provide overnight coverage and other services. Thanks go out to Jackie Ashley, Linda Tough, Alice McCain, Janice Cameron, Joan Hartung, and Selene Rilatos. Welcome back, Lisa Brown and Brycann Mickey. We couldn’t do it without all of you! Support also comes in the form of material items, which gratefully stretch the limited budget that we work within. Thank you to Cathy Russell, Senetilia McKinley, and the Special Services staff of the Lincoln County School District for their generous donation of towels, cookie cutters, paper products, laundry soap, and hygiene items. Carol Lowe at the Logsden Store and the Logsden community donated food and paper products. Debby Fawver and the Siletz VFW Auxiliary provided hygiene items, Mary Kay cosmetics, and towels/washcloths. Lynn Whitlow provided food items, Paul Kirkland of Portland donated hygiene items, Paulina Burnette gave bathrobes, and Arlissa Rohn a pair of shoes. We appreciate each one of you and your caring generosity. We still could use a few more volunteers to spend an occasional overnight. Also, if you have a special skill or gift that you would like to share with the women here, perhaps we could set up a session or series. We can always use household supplies. Thanks for all you do for us! If you want to help out with one of our needs, please call Lynn at 541-444-8238 or 1-800-922-1399, ext. 1238. Siletz tribal youth and others recently enjoyed a drizzly morning on Mill Creek studying native salmon runs monitored by Oregon State Fish and Wildlife. They’re participating in Project JOBS (Job Opportunities Beyond School), funded by a grant from the Regional Investment Board. Youth from grades five to 12 will receive career information and on-site experience about careers in forestry and natural resource management. Some upcoming classes, projects, and field trips include, but are not limited to: April Oregon Indian Education Association Career Fair Canoe and Kayak Safety Training Stream Testing Project Community Garden May Career Classes - resume writing, interviewing, job conduct classes June Mountain House Historic Outdoor Teen Camp August CCC Historic Outdoor Teen Camp Youth Conference - career training for our forests We’re also looking for adults who could share their expertise in forestry and natural resource management. For more information or if you would like your child involved, please contact DeAnna Pearl at 541-444-8395 or 1-800-922-1399, ext. 1395. you in many ways and some of those can last your whole life. If you're considering using it, please Dear Raven: Why do we have to contact the tribal alcohol and drug pro attend NA or AA? Anonymous gram office closest to you to talk with Dear Anonymous: As I hear you say someone about getting more information. the words “have to,” it makes me Dear Raven: What happens if I wonder if you’re feeling that someone is forcing you into treatment or drink one glass of wine or beer while I’m pregnant? I hear that a little recovery. If that’s true, programs do alcohol is actually good for you. have a responsibility to help people find Signed, Going to be a mom community support for recovery. Dear Mom: Since a baby’s brain NA and A A are probably the most develops throughout the entire nine widely used community support months of pregnancy, it’s possible for systems and they’re available in almost any amount of alcohol to affect your every community worldwide. In the baby throughout pregnancy. words of someone who is actively The ways that your alcohol use involved in NA/AA, here’s a good during pregnancy can affect your baby message for you to think about: include the possibility of infant death, “As recovering people, it’s our developmental problems, abnormal responsibility to surround ourselves growth, impaired brain development, with other recovering people to learn and emotional delays. These things may how to live without the use of alcohol and other drugs. We need the support cause low self-esteem, learning diffi culties, problems managing behaviors, of one another to make it work, to know and poor judgment for the rest of your that we’re not alone and that it’s child’s life. possible to change our old ways and live This often is referred to as fetal a new life of freedom from active alcohol syndrome and the specific addiction. I hope this helps people better understand the reasons to get effects depend on in which part of your pregnancy the alcohol makes contact plugged into 12-step meetings to with the developing fetus. Fetal alcohol become productive members of society.” syndrome and its related conditions are Good luck with your recovery 100 percent preventable. experiences. Congratulations on being a mother Dear Raven: My mom and dad and for asking this important question. smoked pot when they were teen-agers. We all know that children are a sacred They seem to be OK. They told me that gift and sometimes we must depend on weed today isn’t the same as it was back the strength and knowledge of others then. How can that be? Signed, Carmin’ Dear Carmin’: It’s hard to know to provide a safe, healthy environment exactly what the strength is of drugs. for that child before and after birth. That was true when your parents were If you need support during your teen-agers and it’s still true today. pregnancy, tribal services are available Marijuana contains more than 400 to you. Please call us and we can help! potentially active chemicals. This f--------------------------------------------------------------- | If anyone is interested in being । makes it hard to predict its effects. Those effects can be very different | involved in kayaking and | for each person and depend on the dose. I canoeing, please call Crista I We do know, though, that it only takes I Whittington at 1 -800-600-5599 I very small doses of marijuana to or 541-444-8286. I disorient the brain. Marijuana can affect April 2004 □ Siletz News □ 7
