FAMILY DAY: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children Monday, September 24, 2018

FAMILY DAY: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children
Monday, September 24, 2018

Next Monday, September 24, 2018 is Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children! Family Day began in 2001 as a national effort to promote family dinners as an effective way to help kids grow up safe, healthy, and drug free. Research has found that the more frequently children eat dinner with their parents, the less likely they will be to smoke, drink, or use illegal substances.

InnerAct Alliance and our coalition partners in Own the Upside are asking folks to take a family selfie and use the hashtag #myfamilyselfie to share on the Own The Upside Polk Facebook page showing how families celebrate together. 

Link to Own The Upside Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/owntheupsidepolk/

Please help us spread the message to your family, friends, and neighbors and encourage everyone to participate in Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children on Monday, September 24, 2018!

Own the Upside is an initiative of the Drug Free Coalition partnership of Hardee, Highlands, and Polk counties in Central Florida founded on a single idea: celebrate the positives! We believe in providing positive messages to parents and adults regarding the truth about our Youth Culture. For more information, please contact Angie Ellison, Executive Director of InnerAct Alliance, at (863) 802-0777.

UthMpact Coordinates 2018 Project Hoco Shopping Days

UthMpact Coordinates 2018 Project Hoco Shopping Days

With Fall football games in full swing that means it’s almost Homecoming! UthMpact is proud to present the 4^th season of Project Homecoming to provide formal wear to teens in need. Students with a Polk County School ID can sign a Project Hoco Pledge to celebrate drug-free and receive dresses and suits for FREE!

Student Shopping Days for Project Hoco are scheduled for Saturdays September 29 & October 13, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday, October 6, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm, and Saturdays, October 20 & 27, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the Project Prom store in Lakeland Square Mall, 3800 U.S. Highway 98N, in Lakeland (between Sears and Food Court).

Community members are also asked to support this effort by donating gently used dresses, shoes, men’s suits, ties, and other accessories. Formal wear donations may be dropped off on the shopping dates or at the InnerAct Alliance office on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

UthMpact’s goal is promote a fun and safe Homecoming night. For more information, please contact Samantha Barwig, UthMpact Coordinator, at (863) 802-0777.