Teen Connection

4 Programs
Grade(s): Teens
Curriculum: Health/Social Studies

Teen Connection is a series of tapes written by and for teens in a drug abuse and gang prevention theater project of the Neighborhood Out reach Program of San Diego Youth and Community Services. This series takes students through the strong temptation to use recreational drugs, how they are lured into experimentation with drugs. But more importantly, the series stress the consequences of using drugs.

"Till death due us part" uniquely uses a wedding setting and the vows of this marriage showing the combining of two types of drugs. The interaction of the drugs and the consequences of the mixing of the drugs. Pointing out both the physical and mental disorders that can result in death. The tapes stress the differences in adults and teens and how they handle things differently. The series continues into the consequences of having sex and how the consequences of sex are in many cases, the same as experimenting with drugs.

Program Titles:

  1. The Choice is your Choice
  2. "till death do us part"
  3. Know The Facts
  4. Do you take the risk?