001all right Welcome to our important parent meeting appreciate those of you that were able to make it um my name is Becky montoy I'm the counselor at the junior high and I'm also a licensed professional counselor and we are excited to present some very important information we it's hard to get good attendance there's lots of competing events any night of any day so we appreciate that the tech department is going to be recording this meeting and we will be able to push it out to parents and staff that are interested in this information but weren't able to attend tonight I've got some information on the board well a couple of things first very important things if you need a restroom they're just right in this little entryway that you came in we have both of
002our restrooms there typically when I give a presentation it's during the school day and it's on my campus and so then I also have to explain to the people in the room what we do in the event of evacuation or in the event of a lockdown and we won't have to worry about a lockdown we're not doing a regular school day but in evacuation we would just head out those doors but it's always surprising to adults that we have to review lockdown procedures anytime they're in the building and that is the reality that your young people are dealing with and that we are as well and so just wanted to throw that in as a reminder of some of the emotional stressors that young people have that you may or may not have had when
003you were attending school some of the information we will present this evening may actually trigger a strong emotional response in you at the back of the room and I'll introduce Miss Lauren marks she can give a little wave she is back there and if you're feeling especially um responding strongly to something that we present this evening you are welcome to go back and visit with her she also has some really important resources that Blue Ridge offers um there is a sign-in sheet back there I put one up here but the one you need is back there there's a sign up sheet if you are interested in taking a free Suicide Prevention class or a free mental health first aid class or you are interested in getting free counseling for your child then please make sure
004to put your name and information and we can hook you up with all of those free services on that table there's also a worksheet that that's called it's always okay to tag in a trusted adult that's a phrase in a conversation we want to be having with young people on a regular basis tagging in a trusted adult in that worksheet just kind of explains what that process would be we also have a little resource resource card and we have a bigger sheet with additional resources in the community lots of good information back there at the Blue Ridge table and then we also have the Nexus Coalition and they have a table at the back I don't know where Becky or destiny I see Destiny and Becky anyone else that's with Nexus if you want to
005give a wave their table is at the back as well and they have information on Free trauma classes that are being offered twice a month they offer free parent education classes some specifically targeted on the material we'll be covering tonight as well as other types of parenting classes and they offer free naloxone training and when they have it available when you receive that free naloxone training you can actually receive free naloxone with that training we appreciate all that Nexus does for us they also um come into the school and offer incredibly powerful life-changing educational resources to our young people and then I think care first or care Arizona complete are you guys here you're here great thank you and we appreciate that they have been helping us make connections with resources in our community as
006well which is why we're going to be able to get you plugged into free counseling for your child if you're interested in learning how to do that I've got some hotlines up on the screen and all that information would be in the handouts but if you um right here this first 24-hour support hotline this is the Arizona crisis line and we are really encouraging people to start using this crisis line it's the 844-534-4673 that number has the potential of having a mobile crisis team respond to the situation and the more that we use that number from our County the more we show the need we have in our County for mental health supports in the state so we really are encouraging people to write that number down share it that's for mental health crises you
007that number is available 24 7. the national Lifeline is three digits 988 so we also want to have people familiar with that number and then the text line is 741-741 and of course anytime we're talking about a medical emergency or overdose then we're just dialing 9-1-1 so those are some of the important 24-hour supports that we want to make sure people are aware of and that we're sharing that information and that those numbers are helpful for people who are in a crisis and they're helpful for people who are supporting someone that's in a crisis so that Crisis Line you call that if you're personally having something going on or if you are aware of someone else that is and you're not sure how to best support call that number and they're going to walk you
008through that those are the resources in the room and sometimes I've taught presentations of this sort and felt like our County well just our community not the county but our community that we had all this great information to share but not a lot of good resources after the meeting was over we have incredible resources it feels so good to present this important information and be able to say here's what to look for and here's what to do we have things we can do we have great resources in our community we just need to push them out there and so I hope that after you learn this information tonight you will be motivated to heighten your awareness your noticing skills and share the information that you've learned and I'm excited that we have some great presenters
009to work with us tonight like all of you our formal training is really important but the things that have probably taught us the most come from our personal experiences that's been the truth for me and I know that's true also for the people that will be presenting this evening so I'm going to introduce our next presenter Vicki Solomon is the executive director for the Nexus Coalition for drug prevention which is located in Taylor Arizona and do we have a little location right here too yep right back behind the school she was born and raised in the White Mountains where she intends to continue to build healthy communities and resiliency in youth both passion both passions for her the community and the young people Vicki has 13 years of experience in prevention education Community collaboration and
010Federal Grant Management as well as 28 years as a financial analyst her leadership skills are focused on achieving the coalition's goals of reducing substance misuse among Youth and establishing and strengthening collaboration among Community organizations her guidance has expanded the coalition's work in school-based prevention education the use of trauma-informed care practices and delivering numerous trainings to address substance use disorders including opioid reversal naloxone training that was a lot so important she is an expert in our community on this stuff she's going to cover and so I welcome Vicki to come up and she's going to give us some important information on those topics thank you very very much isn't Becky awesome she is one of my favorites thank you very very much so I have some awesome information to share with you today the reason why
011I think it's awesome is because you guys are parents or you are teachers that work with youth and you need to know this information when I was a parent raising four kiddos I did not know that we had something like a Nexus Coalition and so I didn't have the resources raising my kiddos and I wish that I would have known about resources in our communities like Becky has just talked about so what we're going to talk about today is current drug trends um and I want you to to read that it says talk and listen to your youth I always say taught to youth taught to youth talk to youth because we need to have a dialogue with them but we also need to listen to our youth and we need to get ready for
012what they're finally going to be brave enough to talk to us about so you have to prepare yourself to receive that information let's go ahead and go to the next slide this is my awesome staff I I always say I have the Dream Team and I really honestly do and I appreciate them very very much we have grants that covers Show Low Pinetop Lakeside and we're getting into snowflake Taylor and then we Branch out a little bit in our White River and also in our Winslow and Holbrook areas and I appreciate them we've got Julie Cheyenne Stacy Becky and Destiny and the two reasons why Nexus Coalition exists are these two things right here to reduce substance Youth and and establish and strengthen collaborations that is our that's what we do and I love it
013okay we'll go to the next slide how we do that we work with 12 different sectors in the community and I always like to say if you are not collaborating or partnering with us then please come to us because there's something that we can do for you and that you maybe could do for us to help the community all right and then what do we do um we have a side that we we have youth drug prevention life skills these are the different things that we um that we Implement into the schools and also in our faith-based organizations we work a lot with them in power to be empowered Bop and life skills avoid vaping those are our evidence-based curriculums that we use and utilize and you would think that a drug prevention would just
014teach about drugs but that's not true okay we teach life skills because we need to find out why are the youth turning to drugs and alcohol kind of get down to some of those more root problems and we try to build that self-esteem and confidence and guide them in a direction that they can live a more positive life and and these evidence-based programs help us do that and then my staff does a wonderful job with a diversion program just got a phone call as I was coming into this meeting a second grader was vaping second grader so we're setting up some appointments we're going to educate the kiddo we're going to educate the parents and we've got to start shifting a different direction if they're starting in second grade we're in trouble okay freshman University
015where we get to meet with all the freshmen in the whole entire school and we work with our our partners and we educate them on six different topics like once a week for six weeks fabulous program keep a clear mind killer Among Us fentanyl medicine safety and stress and coping skills do we have stress in the world today after we turn 19 this dress just go away now we're adults we don't have stress no we have we have stress our entire lives and the earlier that we learn our coping mechanisms then the better off we're going to be now is my stress the way that I deal with it going to be the same that Jason deals with his stress no everybody has their own coping mechanisms and the earlier that we can teach that
016kid how to find their own coping mechanism the better off they're going to be and the better choices they can make all right and then over here on our parents oh that's okay over on our parents we have a lot of information for you guys as well we like to train you and if you have any questions on anything if we don't know the answer we will find it for you all right we'll go to the next slide gateway drugs you may have heard that term and if you haven't what it is is it's just something that kids start with and then they end up leading into bigger and more harsher things okay and so when we look at alcohol marijuana and E-cigarettes if we look at just one of them alone it may not
017be that bad if they do a little bit but it really is okay and these right here lead to other things these stats right here come from our Arizona Youth survey and it is done every other year um and it's in the school it takes one school hour to complete and this is our Navajo County numbers 8th 10th and 12th grade take it and this is the first year that alcohol was not number one we've got our marijuana and E-cigarettes that actually outdid our alcohol numbers and I just want you to take a glance at those devastating numbers and these are the youth telling us that they are these are lifetime users of 8th 10th and 12th graders okay so so think about that as we're going to talk about our our fentanyl discussion today
018we'll go to the next slide so unfortunately I have old data on this because I'm not allowed to get new data yet it's three years behind us and so this is from 2020 Navajo County I was working directly within medical investigator and they would let me know how many cases they ended up with and they had 148 cases and out of that 57 were natural we can't do a whole lot about natural but the rest of them are preventable deaths we've got 23 overdoses which out of the 23 there was 14 fentanyl from opioid two math three various and then we had 23 suicides 17 motor vehicle 10 accident nine homicide and nine alcohol now since 2020 do you think the numbers have increased or decreased they have probably increased substantially okay and so keep
019that in mind this is why we do what we do okay we'll go to the next slide so now we're going to talk about fentanyl okay it is killing Our Youth and killing our young adults and this has never happened before um it took us a long time to figure out what to do about it we work with Arizona Haida we work with the DEA and we get great training from them and what we learn from them we bring it back to our communities and what we're learning right now is that fentanyl is on the rice and it's not getting better it's getting worse okay we'll go to the next slide Navajo County Sheriff report I love pulling their information offline I have a big stack of these do you think we have drugs in
020Navajo County yeah we do okay so here's some of the drug busts we have uh 1.4 million dollar drug bust there was 72 000 fentanyl pills confiscated on one drug bust we have 1.2 million dollar drug bust with 48 000 fentanyl pills we have a 120 fentanyl Peels and the age on this one surprised me they were 26 years old and coming through on the I-40 um we do have a prob a problem with drugs but we are so thankful for our law enforcement all law enforcement because they're out there working their tail ends off to try to help our communities be safe what is going on right now in Mexico the cartels are literally mixing these things in a bucket and so they put a little bit of this a little bit of that
021they dump fentanyl in it mix it up put it in a pill press and they're shooting out pills by the thousands okay and so in one peel that's on the street we don't know how much fentanyl is inside of that pill and that's why you're going to see you know one pill will kill because it has and it does the amount of fentanyl in one pill because of how it's mixed is killing people and and it's happening right here in our community the amount of fentanyl is not regulated they're oxycodone the m30s were really popular and on the next slide we're going to see what they look like they used to be little blue pills and oh before we get to the blue pills right here this is how much fentanyl is going to that
022it takes to kill somebody it's like seven or eight little grains of salt that's how much can kill a person okay so if it's being mixed in a bucket and then pill pressed we literally don't know how much fentanyl is in one pill okay next slide here we go so see the blue pills one of them is fake and one of them is real like through our Pharmacy okay and the drug dealers decided that they want to try to make it mimic what we have in our Pharmacy so people will take it right so that's what the fake pills look like right now on the streets our DEA and Haida tell us that out of 10 pills on the street 6 out of ten are going to be laced with a deadly dose of Fentanyl
023and it's gone up about maybe five months ago it was only four out of ten pills we're going to have the deadly dose of fentanyl so six out of ten pills okay we'll go to the next slide then if this doesn't make you angry I don't know what will so we caught on to the blue peels they were doing drug busts and showing all kinds of blue peels blue peels blue peels so we started you know there's about 28 different coalitions in the state of Arizona so we part started putting out information about the blue peels lots of organizations start talking about the blue peels within the drug cartel decided to change the colors to these rainbow colors now do you think that they change the colors to entice the adults or who are they
024targeting they're targeting our youth it makes me angry to think about that so now we have to watch out because this is what it looks like now okay go the next slide so what are opioids we do have some safe fentanyl I don't want anybody going to the hospital with their arm cut off and then they hear that they're going to have Fentanyl and they refuse it okay no hospital grade fentanyl that is in your hospitals and it's it's being monitored that is not going to hurt you okay that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about the street fentanyl okay opioid or oxycodone Oxycontin Vicodin so if anybody has had any surgeries you'll probably have this in your cupboard okay then we have heroin which is a lot of times people will get on
025heroin it's an opioid and it's very addictive okay we'll go to the next slide so after I've thrown up all over you and you feel all this horrible mess on you what are some things that you can do when I go to a training and I'm sitting there I'm a doer I'm like okay tell me what I can do to fix this problem I want to fix problems and so here's some very simple easy things that you can walk away today and be able to do you can learn about naloxone and teach others naloxone is an opioid reversal and I'll tell you about it by the way today on the news or maybe yesterday on the news I just got information today and sent it out the naloxone is available over the counter that's never
026happened before either so that's a pretty cool thing I don't know how much we're going to be charged for it but that that's something good so the next thing is we can clean out our medicine cabinets and dispose of unused and expired medicines what how is that going to help what do you think that's going to do just in case absolutely so if we have medicine in our cabinet especially if it's expired or unused we need to get rid of it we have kids that are coming through our homes maybe we have a TB a TV repair guy that comes and he has an addiction you he opens your counter or he goes in your bathroom and opens your mirror and he's getting some of your drugs all of a sudden you're a drug dealer
027and you didn't even know it and you didn't mean to be one so we wanted the drugs that we need to keep we need to keep locked up and make sure that they're um not easily as accessible and the rest of it we need to get rid of okay and then we need to once we learn something we need to share that information with other people okay all right we'll go to the next slide now we're going to do a quick training on naloxone and it's so simple and easy that you're going to walk away and I hope that you're going to feel comfortable being able to use it if you ever need to use it okay this next slide is going to be a short video just a couple of minutes long and it's
028going to tell what happens with the opioid in your body and what the naloxone actually does to to be that opioid reversal so we'll go ahead and do that video real quick naloxone saves lives no time to sit idly by more and more people are dying of overdose from the likes of heroin Fentanyl and prescription pain medications like oxycodone and hydrocodone these are all examples of opioids opioids or drugs derived from the Opium hobby plant were made in the lab they can treat pain cough and diarrhea but opioids can also be addictive and even deadly but the number of opioid overdose deaths has escalated more than 400 percent since the turn of the century with tens of thousands of lives now being lost every year but many deaths can be prevented with a life-saving treatment
029naloxone when given right away naloxone can work in minutes to reverse an overdose naloxone is safe has few side effects and some forms can be administered by friends and family when is naloxone used you can save a life first recognize signs of Overdose pale clammy face blue fingernails or lips vomiting or gurgling sounds inability to speak or be awakened slow breathing or heartbeat if you see these symptoms call 9-1-1 immediately and consider the use of naloxone if available how is naloxone given home preparations include a nasal spray given to someone while they lie on their back or device that automatically injects medicine into the thigh sometimes more than one dose is needed the person's breathing also needs to be monitored if the person stops breathing consider rescue breaths and CPR if you are trained until
030First Responders arrive how does naloxone work the naloxone is an opioid antagonist which means that it blocks opioid receptors from being activated it is so strongly attracted to The receptors that it knocks other opioids off when opioids are sitting on their receptors they change the activity of the cell opioid receptors are found on nerve cells all around the body and in the brain opioids produce feelings of comfort and sleepiness in the brain stem opioids relax breathing and reduce cough and in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves opioid slow down pain signals and the gastrointestinal tract opioids are constipating these opioid actions can be helpful but the body actually produces its own opioids called endorphins which help calm the body in times of stress endorphins help produce the runner's high that helps marathon runners get through
031grueling races but opioid drugs like prescription pain medications or heroin have much stronger opioid effects and they're more dangerous over time frequent opioid use makes the body dependent on the drugs when the opioids are taken away but the body reacts with withdrawal symptoms such as headache racing heart soaking sweats vomiting diarrhea and Tremors for many the symptoms feel unbearable [Music] with continued use opioid receptors also become less responsive and the body develops tolerance to the drugs more drugs are needed to produce the same effects which makes overdose more likely overdose is dangerous especially for its effect in the brain stem relaxing breathing breathing can be relaxed so much that it stops leading to death naloxone knocks opioids off The receptors all around the body in the brain stem naloxone can restore the drive to breathe
032and save a life but even if naloxone is successful opioids are still floating around so Expert Medical Care should be sought as soon as possible naloxone works for 30 to 90 minutes before the opioids return to their receptors naloxone May promote withdrawal because it knocks opioids off The receptors so quickly but otherwise naloxone is safe and unlikely to produce side effects naloxone saves lives from 1996 to 2014 at least 26 500 opioid overdoses in the United States were reversed by lay persons naloxone saves lives okay so that is how opioids work in your system and something I want you to remember is just because somebody's administered naloxone does not mean that they're that they're taken care of and they can go home because they can re-overdose again without taking any more medication because it those
033those opioids stay inside of your body okay so please remember that so what are some signs and symptoms of an overdose I loved it when my teachers put the answers on the board because I could never remember things so right here we have limp body pale face vomiting blue nails cannot be awakened deep snorting or gurgling pinpoint pupils can't speak slow heartbeat slow breathing so these are some signs that you're looking for whenever it comes to an opioid overdose for me if I suspect somebody who may have overdosed I am getting ready to administer naloxone and it doesn't matter if this person is two years old three months old 12 years old or 110 years old it doesn't matter if this person has cancer diabetes whatever it does not matter this right here is not
034going to hurt them okay I want to make sure that you get that it doesn't when I first heard that I'm like that that's that doesn't make sense it's weird but it absolutely will not hurt somebody now if the reason why this person has deceased is not an opioid let's say it was alcohol or Methamphetamine without fentanyl in it okay if it was a clean you know without fentanyl then this right here is not going to bring them back to life okay but if it was an opioid and you administer there's a very good chance that that person could be brought back to life okay so we're going to go the next slide we're going to learn how to do this we're going to call 9-1-1 any time make sure you get some some help
035coming to help you you do not want to be there by yourself without responsibility on your shoulders check for responsiveness perform that sternum rub if they do not come awake with that sternum rub start opening your box get ready to use that you're going to check to see if they're breathing look listen and feel and then you're going to administer naloxone so all you're going to do inside one box there is two doses the hardest part is getting it out of the box okay so it comes in a little package like this okay and on the back you pull the strip down and you take it out and now it kind of looks like flowingase if anybody's had allergies and used Flonase it just is a nasal pump like this you're going to get this
036and you're going to stick it up their nose and you're going to push your thumb inject all of the spray inside their nose and then after you're finished with that you're going to turn them on their recovery side and there's a picture on the next page to show you in the recovery position and then you're going to step back once you've administered it you're going to step back and my trainer who is very experienced in the field for several years said Vicki do you know why I'm telling you to step back and I said no he says first of all if this person as soon as this naloxone hits their system if it's somebody who's had a pretty strong addiction for a long time it's going to put them in immediate withdrawals and they're going
037they might be mad they might be angry they might start kicking hitting fighting or they might be throwing up and so you you don't you want to make sure that they don't choke to death on their own vomit and and you got to protect yourself so I'm going to administer it I'm going to put them on their side I'm going to step back I'm going to wait about a minute and if they do not come back if they haven't come back to life they're not talking not breathing I'm getting the second one out I'm opening it I'm getting the second one and now I'm going to go down and I'm going to administer the second one doesn't matter if it's in the same nostril different nostril just put it up their nose and push eject
038just push this button in and it goes inside I'm going to turn them back on their side and I'm going to step back I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that they come back to life and by that time you probably have your EMS coming and then you let them know hey I had I had administered two of these four milligram naloxone and they will take over and do that for you okay is that pretty simple we could you could do that right I could I can teach my nine-year-old to do this anybody can do this the next part that I want to that I want to educate you on is you notice that I have two boxes up here one of them is called cluxoto like a clock and an auto clocks
039Auto and this is an eight milligram dose which is actually double the dose of the four milligram so Narcan is four milligram Clarks Auto is eight milligram and both Narcan and claxato is naloxone okay so whenever you hear someone say naloxone it could be Narcan four milligram or clexotto eight milligram and the only difference is if we think about our law enforcement I've had a gentleman on the police department in Winslow that said he administered five Narcan to bring a kiddo back to life he could have done just a couple of these and probably brought that kid back to life and then also our police officers have so much stuff I should have you guys come up and model for me they have so much stuff that they're carrying if I ask them would you
040rather carry two of the or four of these or two of these which would be easier for you right so I'm trying to make sure that we get Clarks Auto in the hands of our law enforcement so that they can have that readily available but that is the only difference is the milligram okay and again this is not going to hurt anybody and it will only help if it's an opioid overdose okay all right let's go to the next slide and there's one more thing I just wanted to touch on and then I'm done so there's this thing called the Good Samaritan law and it does two different things that I love one of them youth were overdosing at a very rapid rate and we found out the reason why when I say we it's
041not me it's just people that I appreciate they found out that youth were overdosing and dying because other youth were afraid to call to get help I seen Mary right here I knew something was wrong but I didn't want to get in trouble because I've been drinking and partying or whatever the case might be I'm under age so I'm just going to leave because I don't want to get in trouble so what the Good Samaritan law says is if you call for help to save a life then you're not going to get in trouble that day okay you're not going to get in trouble for calling for help so we watch the youth utilize that and they started calling whenever their friends had overdoses or thought that they did and they were saving lives with
042that the second thing that this does is if I administer this to John and John I punctured something in his nose made his nosebleed or something but he came back to life John can't come and sue me for helping him administer this that's what our Good Samaritan law does is it protects us so that I don't have to be well I'm not going to help because I don't want to no you go help because you can help save a life and nothing's going to happen to you for it okay and last slide so what can I do know the current drug Trends learn about trauma relationships resiliency building learn about naloxone which you just did clean out your medicine cabinets share with others and then I love that Becky brought up that 24-hour crisis line
043same thing if we start utilizing this number in Navajo County we're going to get more resources to help us now this first little bit whenever we ask for help it might take a little bit longer for that crisis mobile team to get there but they're going to start working faster they're going to hire more people they're going to look for the spots who call in and they need help it's going to be growing with us as we're utilizing this service this has been around forever and we have never used it you look at Maricopa County and they use it all the time guess where the funds are going Maricopa County okay so we in Navajo County if you want funds and you want help and we want our people taken care of then let's start
044using this behavioral health line with a crisis mobile team it's not going to be perfect in the beginning because they're working on The Kinks but if you call and you don't get the services that you want then let me know or I'll tell you how to do it and and we're going to tell the crisis team what the problem was and they're going to fix the problems for us so I love that they're doing that and I'm excited about it this is going to go on all of our material from now on is there any questions do you think you could administer naloxone if you needed to is it pretty easy I hope you never have to but if you do have to I hope that you won't be afraid to yes good question so
045you're going to administer naloxone and not perform CPR if you listened in that it said if you are a trained professional that knows how to administer CPR go ahead and do it but if you're not which I'm not I'm not I'm going to administer naloxone I'm going to step back and I'm going to wait I'm going to wait for the professionals to come in and take care of this person but if you are if you are a professional and you feel like it's okay to do that safe for you to do that then absolutely good question yes what to do so if if someone's there and you're not quite sure what's going on if they're breathing then I would just let if if you're breathing then your body's going to take over and you're going
046to be okay but still call for help but if you're not breathing and you think it's an opioid overdose administer naloxone immediately right then I would administer naloxone to be safe because I remember right now if I administered this to Mary it wouldn't hurt her but it wouldn't help or it wouldn't do anything so if if there's a chance that I think that naloxone might help this person I'm administering it does that make sense awesome okay thank you sorry Miss Becky that's okay and we will have some questions at the end so if you think of a question between now and the end there will still be time all right our next presenter I really appreciate Jason so much sometimes when tragedy strikes we think it happens to you know we and we shouldn't do
047this but we think it happens to certain type of people to certain types of families Jason's Story throws all that out and many of the stories in our community do the same and so I really appreciate him coming I'm going to put my glasses on and tell you a little bit about Jason Jason Mulder is the founder of several companies under the parent company called true companies his passion is to leave a significant Mark In This World by helping as many people as possible get to the root of their most challenging health problems and achieve their highest quality of life Jason earned a doctorate of Chiropractic degree he has hosted a radio show for five years and wrote the true Health diet um this along with numerous other academic and professional accomplishments Jason Mulder serves
048in multiple organizations as well he is the president of the Nexus Coalition a non-profit organization that fights the War on Drugs this organization hits close to home for Jason and his wife they tragically lost their son Jaden in 2020. Jason also serves in his church and is a global Ambassador for the we World initiative to solve The World's water incoming electric crisis Jason has lived in Snowflake for the last eight years and he fills his greatest successes lie within his family he has been married to his beautiful wife for more than 20 years and together they have six children Jason is an outdoor Enthusiast and continues to exhibit grit and persistence as he makes a positive impact on everyone around him so thank you for coming Jason and we welcome you to share Jaden's story
049thank you um Becky uh what Becky didn't tell you is that she knew me when I was a snotty-nosed kid I was leasing a room from her mom just up the road in Wagon Wheel back before I got married that was 24 years ago so I've had some time up here in the White Mountains absolutely love it and plan to spend the rest of my life here just because I didn't pay a lot of attention when they told me who I was speaking to or at least I didn't remember I had in my mind I was speaking to a bunch of teenagers so or parents with their kids so uh if uh if I start talking to you like you're 17 that way but secondly if I could just get an idea of who's in
050the audience how many of your work at the school as Administration or teachers and how many here are parents that are coming to learn more okay I don't know why it hurt when I saw those parents raise their hands if I see the mom hi Joyce I think it hurt because I know that you're here probably because you're afraid because you want to know more so you can protect your kids but our story definitely does break the mold and I think what I want to share tonight is that nobody's exempt from this after Jaden passed away I've spoken at a few things and I still haven't figured out how to keep it together as long as I act like it's somebody else's story I do good but as as soon as I connect with the
051story it uh it's tough but uh as I've spoken in advance I've I've had mothers come up to me and thank me as they were able to begin the process of quitting their opioid addiction of several years and these are mothers that you would never in your life pick out as people that were addicted to opioids they have kids and a husband and it seem like have a perfectly functional family on the outside and and yet they're struggling with these addictions so I think just to give you a little bit of a back story I was raised in a home where drugs were quite prevalent I'm literally a crack baby I in in all it's it's sense uh my mom raised four of us boys we all had different dads we were homeless multiple times
052growing up lived most of our lives in tents and trailers and uh got to experience a lot of of that side of the world as I grew up I I had opportunities I call them opportunities but I had opportunities to spoon feed my mom's friends because they had overdosed on drugs too many times and had strokes and weren't able to feed themselves and so as I got to be a teenager of course I was dumb like most teenagers and wanted to start experimenting with things and I went down that path for a little while but as I did I fortunately had some compare and contrast in my life enough to know that that wasn't the path I wanted for myself so when I was about 17 I made some really dumb choices and uh that
053for me was my turning point because I realized that I was I was at that moment making a choice of whether I was going to go down this pathway or the other path and uh in short I I made the choice to straighten my life up and moved away from home at 17 and started paying for my own living as a personal decision because I knew I didn't want that in my life and so if that gives you any context as to how hard I've worked my whole life to make sure that those a kid's life or even my patient's life as I've expanded medical clinics throughout Arizona and now expanding Beyond my focus is to help patients get off opioids and to help them avoid the need of them and and and Drugs in
054general the more we can help patients not be dependent on those the better quality life people tend to live and so that's been my my motto for 15 years plus and uh so that kind of leads us up to I'll fast forward now to now I've got a a 13 14 year old Jaden uh Jaden was an absolutely phenomenal human being he obviously was good looking like his dad okay now his I should have brought a picture of the family so you can see his mom she's gorgeous um but uh good looking kid very athletic uh extremely talented and uh just somebody that everybody loved except for a couple of his teachers outside of that we were actually just told today one of his teachers let us know how much they loved him and uh
055he liked to push boundaries he liked to push buttons that was his thing and he hated the word anybody can anybody guess what word he hated no he hated the word no that was not an acceptable word in his life and I think that would have gone to turn into something absolutely phenomenal I know it would have because we got to see a little glimpse of that before he passed uh it would have turned into something powerful because he didn't accept the word no and he was the guy that got what he wanted when he set his mind to it but uh just as Vicki had shared and if anybody wants to know I'm probably the example here of what not to do and Vicki has the most beautiful perfect kid so if you want
056to learn what to do we can get her back up here after I'm done so she can give you some good counsel um but uh Jaden was a boundary Pusher 14 15 years old love to have fun uh he was driving way before he should have been sorry officers back there and his grandma and everybody in town knew him as the drift King we got a call one night he was 16 at this point he did have a driver's license but he was doing donuts around the Maverick gas stations three times before he decided he was had burned off enough tires and so he just liked to have fun uh push boundaries and live life and uh and I I didn't discourage some of that because I I think it's a it was a fun
057thing for him and I enjoyed that when I was young um but uh as he got to be 16 he uh he had a really good group of friends and uh he started to turn away from those friends and started to hang out with other friends and I don't know exactly what that path looked like but I can imagine very closely what it did because I've seen it plenty in my life growing up my best friend at the time when I chose One path he chose the other path and now he's been in jail three times he's in jail right now he's been in prison for the last five years um and uh and so I've seen the pattern enough that I'm sure he just started hanging out with these kids and it was cool
058and fun and they accepted them in different ways than his other friends did and and one of them offered him Vape at about 16 16 and a half uh offered him vape and uh told him it didn't have nicotine in it and you know it was just kind of a fun thing and uh what's unfortunate and this is something I know from my medical background is that one in three people have the genetic pattern that will allow you to become addicted more easily than other people and uh he definitely has that genetics my my runs in my family I'll take the blame on that one um but he definitely has a genetic pattern and when he took that verse Vape that nicotine hit his brain in a way that it it was pretty exciting and
059pretty exhilarating probably as fun as drifting around the gas station and uh so then after that that continued and and we tried helping him quit that for quite some time and then that and just because I don't have a lot of time tonight I don't want to take your whole evening that led over the course of time to marijuana as we talk about gateway drugs that led to marijuana and as most of us in here know the older crowd at least that marijuana isn't what it was when we were growing up none of these drugs or what they were when we were growing up and uh and then that led to experimenting with different allergy pills and other things and and he was he was fairly open with us by that time he was very
060closed off to us at first when he was first starting it but over time he opened up um as we let him know we weren't upset we just wanted to help him uh and uh anyway over the course of time he started to get into getting into it more and more and with that came a lot of anger and aggression at home because he knew he was trying to live two lives and I don't think any of us can do that successfully for a very long and so I just let him know I mean as his mom let him know that hey Jaden if you're going to make adult choices then you need to make adult choices and so you need to choose you're choosing to either continue this lifestyle or you need you need
061to move out and you need to pay for your own bills and take care of your own things and uh and in that course he chose to move out like probably most teenagers would at that point not all but some and he moved out moved in with a friend and continued on for a while and then moved in with another friend down in the Phoenix area over on the in on the West Valley and his friend's older brother was addicted to opioids and uh so and again I'm trying to keep the story short here but the short version of the story is he was introduced to opioids and he tried them and he was on them for about a total of six weeks about six to seven weeks I was all he was on him
062and he called me and he said Dad I hate my life he said dad I hate my life and I want to quit I want to come home and I want to I'm ready to change and having been in healthcare for long enough and helping people get off addictions of sugar which probably most of us are addicted to in here I've learned what kind of questions to ask to see if people are really committed and ready to do something and so I asked him a few questions and I I knew in that moment he wasn't 100 committed so I let him know Jaden I love you I know you're not 100 ready call me when you are we'll be down there to pick you up in a heartbeat and so two weeks later he called
063me on my birthday and he was completely broken at that time could hardly talk and he said Dad I can't even go two hours without a hit yeah it has it's destroying me I hate everything about my life I'm ready to be done and then I ask those same questions without him knowing what the answers were supposed to be and he answered him in a way that I knew he was willing to do whatever whatever it took to get off those drugs and so uh I said you want me to come get you or do you wanna you got a ride home and so he got a ride home uh from his friend and uh when he got home he had already been off for about four or five hours and so he was all
064of those things that you saw on there all of them uh he was having them uh there was vomiting Blue Lips blue fingernails pale pale face almost looked like he was dead in that moment and so I called up a good friend of mine Dr John Rosa he's the surrogate to the White House on the opioid crisis and because you know I can talk somebody else through it but talk to myself through it I had no clue what I was doing and so I said hey if I cold turkey him is my son going to die and he says no you can't die from cold turkey and he's just gonna have a really miserable time and so I took him in the bedroom we put a bedwetting sheet on the bed fortunately I have enough
065kids if I didn't tell you this I got a total of six kids so um I got enough kids we had Bedwood bed wedding sheets we put four three or four quilts on top of him had a couple Underneath Him and when it talks about sweating over the course of three days he swept more than I I believe any human could the the blankets were completely drenched and uh anyway he cleaned up uh there's a lot more to that story we use some IBM fusions to you know as much as we could help him detox but after about two weeks we had Jaden back and we had the real Jaden back like it was a Jade and I hadn't seen in a couple of years his eyes were glowing he was full of energy he
066was full of life and uh he was ready to take on his new life and so because of just I'll just call him special blessings a lot of things happened in that in in a six-week period of time that just happened to happen that way we got family pictures for the first time in a few years we went on a family trip to California I got to take him on some business trips with me out to Florida and right wide white ride wave Runners anyway we had a good time and I got to see his energy just picking up and see his momentum and he started to create a plan for his life and he set a date to implement that plan when he was going to start his job when he was going to
067ask his girlfriend that had been his girl for about three or four years but he promised himself he wasn't going to ask her until he was done with the drugs uh and he created a plan and so he one day decided he was going to go to Phoenix with me to my office and see his girlfriend because she was working for me at the time and uh so they hung out most of the day and uh for about one hour period of time at lunch uh he was by himself because she had some other uh things to do and he texted his buddy and his buddy came over and hooked him up with a couple of uphill I don't know if it was one I don't I don't know I know it wasn't much and
068uh and anyway we we drove home that night and uh that night he took his his last his last hit um that was still is tough but I tell the all the details all those details of the story I do see some youth here because I want you to understand the the path that these kids take he was he was a hundred percent committed to be done has anybody in here tried quitting sugar or tried quitting drinking a Coke or Pepsi or whatever it is and what do you typically do the day before you're ready to be done you overdose right you you'd take as much as you can because you know you're not going to get any for three days until you go give in to it again right or whatever it is I'm
069trying to lighten the mood here but uh the the reality is is and as you try to get as much as you can and that's what I believe he was doing that night because the next day that night before we left the valley he asked his girl to be his girlfriend and that next morning was the day he was starting his new job in his new life so the moral of the story here is that nobody's exempt that kid had as much love and support take in mind we weren't perfect parents by any means if I look back there's a million things I would have been more patient with and more kind and more loving but we sure as heck gave it all at all all the way through and uh I think the thing
070to remember is that that nobody's exempt and if I was to give you any advice uh you know this naloxone is one of those things that I don't know how many of you had heard of that have you heard of this before tonight how many of you have heard of naloxone okay so most everybody has that's that's good I hadn't even heard of it and I'm a physician and own medical practices it was not even I had heard of it but I didn't wasn't really aware when I found him that morning and it's one of those things I still wondered if I had had enough of that would things be different I just don't know I'll never know but uh but I think uh in watching Jayden's story and uh looking back on it what
071could we have changed what could we have done better what could we have done different and I think there's probably nothing as parents that we could have done different because there's only an extent to which kids will listen to their moms and dads but I think uh as a community we have an opportunity to strongly influence those around us I think as parents if I was to change anything I would have been more vocal about the struggles that he was having with people that I knew he respected and trusted whether that was his old friends the good gang the gang that he hung out with that were the you know even the kids that that were doing the drugs with them were good kids I know them all they're they're good kids just stuck in
072some bad patterns um but the kids that were making better choices I wish I would have reached out to them more and just told them hey if you have if you have it in your heart to continue to put up with him not being nice to you continued to just reach out to him continue to reach out to him let him know that you're there um as parents and uncles and aunts and and friends sometimes we are the greatest influence to our friends kids or our students sometimes you are the greatest influence and so taking opportunities to reach out have discussions help plant seeds so that these kids can know where to draw their own boundaries because the reality is we're not going to change some of the choices that they make but if we
073can give them these types of information and let them hear stories let them hear your stories let them hear that you care about them and that you're concerned it can help them potentially draw boundaries because if kids are going to be trying drugs they may just try them you may not have any say in that but maybe you can help them draw a boundary I know I did personally because I saw the patterns from my mom's friends I knew where I drew my line I knew where things got too ugly and that I did not want to go down that path and I'm grateful for that knowledge that I had and I wish I could have painted a better picture for my son or who knows you know there's all the what-ifs right but anyway
074I hope in some way that the story has has helped or is a story that you can use with your children most kids that are in the age of 18 to 22 in the Show Low White Mountain Area no Jaden they that kid got around and just about every kid knew him so um I guess we'll just leave it open for questions okay that's that's thank you that was a really good point um so something I had shared in a previous uh talk but uh Vicki asked me to share with you that it really I want to emphasize that it was not that last pill that killed him and this is so important emphasize to the kids it was not that last pill that killed him it was the first one because that was where
075it just literally grabbed hold of his brain and he could not let that go and even though he had six seven beautiful weeks I knew he still had internal struggles I knew he still had internal cravings and those may have stayed with him and probably would have stayed with him for the rest of his life at some degree and so it's that first pill if you can help the kids never get that first pill and I guess that's the more specifics to where to draw the lines is if you're going to goof around with some of the lighter stuff then that's that's I still encourage not to but kids are going to make their choices but if you can help them draw that line to recognize they have no clue if they're that 33 percent
076that's going to be addicted after one pill after one pill that addiction can set him for 33 percent of people whether it is distributed at the hospital or at home or on the streets so anyway with that I'll I'll is anything else I missed there okay uh Becky if you want to pass it back to you for questions yes I'm going to do a little wrap up and then if you guys have questions for any of us we'll go ahead and address those as well appreciate the information that Vicki shared and what a vulnerable thing for Jason to share Jaden's story and that it just means a lot I think as parents those are the stories that really open our eyes to the potential and the reality of what's going on um see if I
077can make this clicker work I don't think my clicker is going to work all right thank you so how does this impact our community we had an interesting little homework the last couple days the administration at the Junior High in high school we brainstormed and we were able to name 18 people in the last 10 years that have died from suicide or overdose students that were either in school or who had recently graduated from school and I'm going to have you just click through the next 10 slides go ahead and just give a and just keep going but give a little pause and go ahead and go to the next one thank you um so when I was putting this together I just put out a little PSA about what we were doing and I
078didn't do that until last night and those were the 10 parents that reached out to me and said yes please include my child's picture in this presentation and of those 10 slides five of them are overdose and five of them are suicide and those 10 slides represent a much smaller frame of time probably in the last five years we've seen those outcomes so we've been offering all kinds of supports especially for about the last six years we keep wanting to inform and educate and get people involved and as you're here tonight and you want to know what can we do as parents how can we help um so Vicki talked about gateway drugs and I just want to address what I call Gateway behaviors in Gateway behaviors may include vaping they may include experimenting they
079may include behaviors with social media or increased risk taking Gateway behaviors are when our young people become experts at lying and hiding and choosing things that are they're keeping from us that's what a Gateway behavior is and often the reason that they are practicing these behaviors or practicing their lying skills is because they're certain they know how we will respond if they talk to us about it young people tend to feel safe talking to their parents about the things they perceive their parents can handle or things they perceive are part of their parents plan for them but they often aren't comfortable talking to us about things that maybe aren't part of what they think our plan is for them I hope that makes sense so what we want to do is consider how we can
080create a safe space for our young people to talk to us I heard something recently about a dad he wrote a letter to one of his children and it just said I want you to always be able to talk to me about anything but when you have something come up that you don't want to talk to me about you instead of telling me what it is bring this letter to me and hand me the letter and I'll know you've got something on your mind and we will just sit together until you're ready I thought that was a really great idea things like that is strategy one strategy you might consider is the way that you're talking about situations going on in the world if you are critical and harsh and judgmental about people that are
081battling things regarding addiction or sexual behaviors or things that don't fit into your moral code you might be shutting the door to your young person wanting to talk to you Jason had a great point that sometimes we can create the most inviting environment and our children still might not want to talk to us so we want to make sure that they have other adults in their Arena that they are comfortable talking to I have five kids and my older three I really didn't want anybody helping with it was hands off I got this get out of the way I'm in charge I got this and my younger two I had a very different approach I kind of like threw him out and was like Hey community help me out with these two and I just
082really embraced the fact that I needed help and I wanted that help and it's meant a lot because the community really is there for us when we ask or we're willing to receive them so that's important too don't feel put off if your young person decides they're comfortable talking to somebody else that's a win that means that they've got good people in their life so up on there I had what The Vaping or excuse me the Gateway behaviors might look like and one of the things under that it says consider checking their spaces this one's tricky because you might find something and if you find something and you're explosive about it then you're probably going to slam that door pretty hard we at the junior high level and at the high school vaping could we
083could spend all day every day just dealing with vaping that's the extent that it's happening at school it's happening all day every day um so anything we can get help with that and one thing to keep in mind they don't they don't put them in their back if you're checking your Young Person's stuff the girls are putting them in their bras and the boys are putting them in their waistband so we don't check those areas we can check backpacks but we we don't touch a student and if they have things on their person like that we're not going to be discovering those items but as parents I'm you know within whatever bounds you've got set you might be able to help take a look for some of those things so under creating safe spaces I
084have trade judgment for compassion and be prepared for those difficult conversations we're not experts at having difficult conversations we're not experts at learning things that shock us and surprise us so try to imagine what's the most shocking surprising thing your child could tell you and try to prepare in advance how you're going to respond to that compassionately and without Judgment at least out of the gates because if you can come at it without judgment and with compassion you're opening the door for further conversations and this isn't to say you're going to just disregard and have no rules but it's a process to get there and you got to be willing to create that safe space so you can start that process and then I have provide young people with resources teach them about tagging in
085trusted adults talk to them about doing that these young people carry so much they hear the things that their friends are talking about they get images sent to them late at night of a friend who's self-injuring and they see blood and wounds on their friends and they don't think that it's okay to tell a trusted adult because they're worried that that's a violation to their friend Vicki hit on the Good Samaritan laws they're worried that their friend will be mad at them for telling on them and and at the risk of their friend dying in the process they'll keep from calling First Responders in hopes of keeping their friend from being mad so we've got to talk to them about these things um go ahead and put the next slide this is just a reminder
086that if your young person is holding a secret there's often extreme emotional distress wondering what if I told the people in my life this Secret one way we can create a space for young people to share is when they hear us saying and doing kind actions toward marginalized groups and consistently presenting an energy of kindness and compassion toward all humans it lifts that weight for the children living in our home and they then can have confidence that this is a safe place thank you that worksheet is available back with Miss marks Lauren marks so be sure to grab one of those for your young person go ahead into the next one and this is just a reminder of all those resources that are in the room if you are interested in taking a free Suicide
087Prevention class a free mental health first aid class if you'd like your young person to attend free peer training all of that information is with Lauren marks at the back she's on this side Nexus Coalition has their table of resources they can tell you about the free trauma classes they have available free parent education free naloxone training where you can actually receive the naloxone they have additional resources there as well and those hotline numbers we just want to push those out call the Arizona crisis line when you're experiencing a mental health crisis call the national Lifeline as well that one's super easy to remember it's 988 and then there's a text line and anything medical or overdose related we're calling 9-1-1 that kind of wraps up the presentation looking at those images of the students
088that we've lost over the last few years we've got to do something I'm tired of going to funerals um I'm actually concerned at how numb I've been the last couple times I've learned that somebody else has died because it's a statement of where it's at we need to change things we need to implement change and that's going to come from the environments we're creating for young people thank you guys for coming do you have any questions for myself if it's directed to me go ahead and if you need one of these experts yes so on graduation night 9th through Saint ninth graders through seniors May 19th okay that's great so that they're hosting an event so that young people on graduation night aren't out there in the party environment they're in a safe place that
089night if you're interested in helping with that we've got Andrea Woolridge back there yes so the answer to that is the majority of young people in our schools have experienced varying levels of trauma there is a lot of trauma-based circumstances that young people are dealing with as a society as a whole you take just covid and as a society we experienced covid as a trauma it through their game out of whack young people didn't know if the world was ever going to be normal things were taken away from them things they expected to be a certain way weren't that way some of them wish they could go back to covid time because a lot of rules were kind of lifted there was no expectations and in some regard so that's one piece we know that
090that is elevated but then you take these kids on an individual level and you look at the tragedy and the generational um you know we're looking at multiple generations of individuals who are battling with their relationship with different substances um poverty we're living in an area that's really been impacted by poverty so the answers to that there's specific ones that could apply to each young person and there's general ones that kind of apply to the group as a whole but yes and we want to feel good and using diff you know we we find strategies that on the short term help us feel good to kind of quiet that pain that we have going on and unfortunately long-term potential to end our life you know with those choices did you have one before I got
091here I had a huge thing with him that I needed to call my husband outside cool cool I know you guys are doing something I appreciate this so much my kids started in the very one I hear at the school he is the most wonderful he loves to play baseball all-time sport when I found out I think I took Ivan took him to the place that we we can find out who was serving this to my game I found out it's a kid that comes to school I know who he is you don't you will have no idea the pain the anger that I have and we all know because we all know who their kid is I have talked to the principals I have talked to the police officers I have talked to everybody
092and the only thing I need to do is to burn the house it's not his mind feeling yeah you're having a very St and that's you know to have a strong emotional reaction to when we lose a child to some of these which your child is not lost to it but when we start to feel their headed on that path it's a very helpless feeling well I think you you bring up a really great point and that's why we as a school are presenting this information we aren't going to say that this that this doesn't happen at school the access that young people have to marijuana to vaping marijuana Vapes have changed the game I mean it used to be if you were smoking a joint in a bathroom stall we could smell you a
093mile away and we could there was a lot we could do to troubleshoot that the way that they're packaging and selling you know as a school we do have plans we do have strategies but ultimately there is going to continue to be hiccups and are going to continue to be issues and it does get very tricky of how we hold the people accountable that are bringing it reporting it is so important because that's what gets us down the pathway to hold that person accountable down the road for sure reporting it helps and that can keep us keeping an eye on those situations it's super important and I am really sorry that you're experiencing that's a very tough situation to be experiencing it's a huge frustration we could hire I don't want to throw this back
094on how schools are funded but honestly we could hire two or three staff on each campus just to handle The Vaping situation but there's just not funding to do it so we are sharing responsibilities based on how schools are funded and until we get schools funded a little more adequately that's going to be a challenge and I'm sorry that's happening let's talk after a little bit more no burning house is down I agree no let's be sure let's be sure to talk after I am not in I'm not tuned into your situation and I want to be so be sure to visit with me after do yeah I you make some very valid concerns and and we you know our heart goes out to you I'll tell you this we have suspended long-term and expelled
095more students the last 18 months than we did my first seven and a half years so we have a zero tolerance if you are dealing drugs at school first time you're expelled it means you cannot come back now that child's in crisis and that's not a great outcome but that's where we're left because we have we have limited resources but we have sent a strong message we will not tolerate drugs in our school it hasn't eliminated it but it's one strategy that we're implementing to do the very best that we can we have also had at every campus we've increased the number of counselors and student support we know our kids are in crisis I think it's astonishing for most people to learn that 40 percent of our kids that go to school live below
096poverty 55 percent receive free and reduced lunch they're in a tough situation their families are in touch tough situations but we have loving education here that are willing to help their teachers are solid they're good people they try they have counselors and student support folks please reach out to Becky but I wanted to offer that our board is very supportive of that our Administration is working hard but we know it's not over we know that we must give our best every day and what we're trying to do the best we can thank you and the reason we're having this meeting tonight is because Dr Wright he felt very strong about this a few weeks ago and he just said we need to make this happen and I appreciate the support I do love working for
097a district that has supported us with every step we've wanted to take what happens is we get we have a tragedy in our community and it raises the volume for a minute of people wanting some resources and some understanding and it quickly dissipates and so we host a meeting and this is great I'm not gonna lie I thought I'd have eight parents here because I posted meetings for the last six years and we don't get we don't fill a room this full we're lucky to like I said get five or six parents that come to anything that we host so this is fabulous um but we've been hosting and trying to share and get this information out for several years now and um there are some things where where we there are going to be
098hurdles there are going to be challenges and we do want to support do we have any questions for Vicki regarding the information she shared if you she talked about the naloxone if you want to attend a naloxone training be sure you talk to her table and they can give you that information or any questions for Jason how great was it that he was willing to come and share his story I appreciate that means a lot and I know I mean I can't speak for you but I know when the parents were sending me the pictures of their kids to put in the slideshow every single parent that sent me a picture said if our story can make a difference if our story can change the outcome for somebody else and um and that's kind of
099what you know where they're left right now is with this huge hole in this huge gap but a strong motivation to help other people see that they're you know see what's happening and maybe save what we don't know when we do these classes and something that I really hope however it works in the when life is done and we're all wherever we get to go next I really do hope I get some kind of count on where we did save a life because that's something we just never know we don't know when we're saving lives unfortunately we can't put all the slides up of all the young people that we have made the difference for that are still here that would be something very rewarding to know but instead we have to present the other
100side of it to help motivate us um Dr Wright do you have any closing words or all right we appreciate you coming be sure to stop by the tables get some information and talk to any if you're an administrator and you want to stand up just so they know who they could talk to if anyone wants to address we got Mr Webb he's the high school principal Megan Penrod is the assistant principal Miss Hoffmeyer the principal at the junior high and Ryan Grace the principal at the elementary and our fearless leader Dr Wright superintendent and at the back we have Lauren marks and she's the counselor at the high school thank you for coming we will have this presentation available on YouTube for parents that weren't able to attend thank you [Applause]