Plan to Eat Dinner with Your Family on Monday 9/23

 

InnerAct Alliance and coalition partners, StandUP Polk and UthMpact, encourage your family to participate in Family Day - A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children on Monday, September 23, 2024. Family Day is a national effort to promote family dinners as an effective way to reduce youth substance abuse and other risky behaviors.

Research by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University consistently finds the more often children eat dinner with their families, the less likely they may be to smoke, drink, or use illegal substances. Spend time this coming Monday, September 23 with your most important social network – your own family – connecting at the dinner table. Learn more about this initiative, sign the family day pledge, and receive tips to talk with your children, by visiting InformedFamilies.org.

After dinner, register as a family for the 2024 Red Ribbon Run on Saturday, October 26 at Lake Mirror in Lakeland. Students in grades K-8 may pre-register for the Kids Fun Run for FREE before 10/26/24 (registration $5 on event day). Parents can run/walk with their children in the Family Fun Run for a $5 fee. Kids must pre-register prior to 10/11 to be guaranteed a free Run t-shirt.

Race Day check-in for the Kids Fun Run starts at 6:30am at Lake Mirror Auditorium. The Family Fun Run takes place at 8:30am; grade heats begin at 8:45am (times approximate). Weekly Red Ribbon Challenges with themes of nutrition, fitness, and anti-bullying begin on September 30 and continued through October on InnerAct Alliance.org. Kids can post their completed challenges on the InnerAct Alliance Facebook page. 

"The Annual Red Ribbon Run encourages healthy family activities to reduce the likelihood of substance abuse, bullying, and other risky behaviors," said InnerAct Alliance's Executive Director Angie Ellison. "Please plan to eat dinner as a family on September 23 and join us on Saturday morning, October 26, by sponsoring, running, or volunteering at the Red Ribbon Run!"

🎀 Red Ribbon Run Registration 🎀

https://www.inneractalliance.org/

Post Completed Red Ribbon Challenges on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/InnerActAlliance?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser