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The Students and Parents Against
Risks to Kids (SPARK) will discuss STDs at its next meeting at Carroll High
School on March 7. According to SPARK Co-Chair Laura Hill, one of the
association’s goals is to give students input on the choice of topics. After a
group of girls went to their school counselors requesting STDs as a topic, the
counselors called SPARK because they knew the organization had a large resource
outreach. The meeting will feature a discussion led by Dr. Jason Terk of Cook
Children’s Medical Center.
Hill explained that the plan is for
“a common-sense conversation” with parents and high-school-aged youth, and that
the meeting will be informative but not graphic. She noted that parents who
wanted to know more about the subject will find the meeting a comfortable place
to do so. Hill acknowledged that there is a need for this type of conversation
as there is a lack of knowledge. Also, teens may have friends with problems who
do not know how to talk to their parents. SPARK Co-Chair Suzanne Maisto
commented that the organization has featured sensitive topics before, including
date rape and sexting.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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