Dover has been selected as one of the America’s Promise Alliance 2011 100 Best Communities for Young People presented by ING, a national competition to recognize local communities’ programs and initiatives aimed at supporting youth and ending the high school dropout crisis.
Santa’s Castle 2012
by Dover Police Charities
Dover Youth to Youth is hosting its sixth annual Santa’s Castle at the McConnell Center in downtown Dover on the two weekends before Christmas. Each night children and their families will be able to tour several rooms in Santa’s Castle and meet Santa and many of his elves and other costumed characters.
During the first weekend the event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16, from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Over the second weekend the Castle will be open on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 2-6:30 p.m.
Dover’s Youth to Youth group gets award for anti-smoking radio spots
by Dover Police Charities
Members of Dover’s Youth to Youth celebrated an award received recently for a series of radio ads created by the drug prevention group to encourage smokers to end their “bad relationship with tobacco.”
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Dover Taking Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs
by Dover Police Charities
On Saturday, September 29th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Dover Police Department, Dover Coalition for Youth and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Medications can be brought for disposal to the Dover Police Department at 46 Locust Street. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
Summer Training Program
by Dover Police Charities
During the week of July 9th Dover Youth to Youth held its annual summer training program. This years program was attended by 48 participants with over 25 older Youth to Youth members helped staff the program. Throughout the week participants recorded 7 radio public service announcements, held a public demonstration about alcohol and the brain, presented Samantha Skunk 10 times, placed nearly 4,000 stickers on cases of beer during a sticker shock activity, and learned drug prevention skits.
‘Brain Campaign’: Dover Youth to Youth students educate downtown visitors on alcohol’s effect on the young mind
by Dover Police Charities
More than 70 dedicated youths rallied downtown Wednesday afternoon in hopes of raising awareness about the effects of alcohol on the brain. As part of a new initiative known as the Brain Campaign, students who are part of Dover’s Youth to Youth prevention program held signs and oversized pictures of the human brain while they explained the types of detrimental ways the developing brain can be affected by alcohol consumption.