Vaping: What Every Parent and Teen Needs to Know

Program Type:

Home Page Feed, Lectures & Panels, Parenting

Age Group:

Adults, Teens
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Description

Elizabeth Jorgensen, CADC, renowned speaker, Director of Insight Counseling, and expert on substance abuse, will discuss short and long-term effects of vaping nicotine and marijuana use. Strategies for talking and intervening with your teens will also be discussed.

Attendees will learn:

  • Vital information about vaping/juuling, including what the most popular devices look like and how they are used
  • Current research on the risks of vaping, including its potential to serve as a gateway to alcohol, opioid,or THC abuse
  • How to talk to your teens--and intervene, if necessary

The Parenting the #Selfie Generation series of programs and workshops is a community-wide collaboration with Ridgefield Public Schools, Ridgefield Council of PTAs, Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield Youth Commission, Books on the Common, Project Resilience, Town Vibe, and Silver Hill Hospital.

Please register or call 203-438-2282.