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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---------------------------------------------------------------
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makes it hard to predict its effects.
Those effects can be very different |
involved in kayaking and
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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.
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disorient the brain. Marijuana can affect
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