FREEHOLDERS GRANT HADDONFIELD 13,226 TO FIGHT WAR ON DRUGS
For Immediate Release: February 22, 2008
Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH 609-472-8837 (cell)

Camden County Freeholders have granted the Borough of Haddonfield $13,226 to help fund 10 separate programs aimed at preventing drug abuse through education in the community for a variety of age groups.

It is part of a larger grant the county receives from the state to distribute to each of the 37 municipalities in Camden County under the state’s Drug Enforcement Demand Reduction (DEDR) program, according to Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez, liaison to the county’s department of health and human services.

Ms. Rodriguez said a total of $3,500 is dedicated to peer influence programs in both the high school and the meddle school. “Under this program, certain students are trained to train others in the school on awareness, decision making, refusal skills, friendships and stress reduction,” the freeholder explained.

There is also funding for elementary school children to produce a no-smoking commercial pegged on the effects of drug and alcohol, added Ms. Rodriguez, who is a full-time high school teacher.

Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. said $1,750 of the funds will be used to provide classes to teach parents how to deal effectively with their children on underage drinking.

Cappelli said funding approved at the Feb. 21 freeholder meeting in Lawnside also covers san all-night post graduation celebration, including breakfast but free of drugs and alcohol; a poster contest and the DARE program co-sponsored by the Haddonfield Police Department, DEDR funding comes from fines levied for substance abuse offenses.

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