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PeaceTalks Preventing Violence
2:21
Preventing Violence presents a powerful
profile of the types of violence teenagers
face today and the emotional toll it is
taking on their lives. Personal stories are
intercut with lively discussions on violence
prevention. Practical strategies for avoiding
and reducing violence emerge as students
learn the importance of predicting
consequences, cooling down, and walking away.
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PeaceTalks Managing Your Anger
2:31
Controlling one's anger is a critical life
skill and Managing Your Anger explores the
difficulties teens face learning to control
theirs while dealing with raging hormones,
the pressures of grown-up responsibilities
and the generalized anger of mass culture.
Teens humorously outline their biggest pet
peeves, and learn to deal with some of life's
most common aggravating situations without
blowing up.
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PeaceTalks Handling Peer Pressure and
Gangs
2:17
Handling Peer Pressure and Gangs deals with a
variety of issues concerning peer pressure,
values and friendship, by examining why kids
join cliques, groups and gangs. Teenagers are
challenged to decide what they would do if a
close friend wanted them to do something
wrong, illegal, or dangerous, and are asked
to examine the types of friendships they are
making. The meanings of true friendship and
the value of positive peer pressure are
highlighted as ways to make good friends and
stay out of trouble.
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PeaceTalks Drugs, Alcohol and Guns:
Triggers to Violence
2:17
This critical program examines the shocking
prevalence of guns at teen parties and clubs
and the predictably dangerous consequences of
this casual mix of drugs, alcohol and
weapons. Adults will learn of a brave new
world where guns are omnipresent and kids
think prevention means planning an escape
route when they start to go off. Teens
recount frightening personal stories of
explosive violence when minor offenses on the
dance floor turn deadly. Notions of
adolescent immortality are challenged as
teens come to realize that going to parties
with drugs, alcohol and guns is simply not
worth the risk.
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PeaceTalks Dealing With Bullies,
Troublemakers and Dangerous
2:57
Bullies are no longer the big loud kids who
like to intimidate and push other kids around
on the playground. Now bullies travel in
gangs and often pack deadly weapons. The
rules for engagement have changed and this
program explores how to best handle bullies
and protect victims without getting hurt.
Teens learn how to recognize potentially
dangerous situations and avoid violence by
reasonably predicting the consequences of
their actions.
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PeaceTalks Bridging Racial Divisions
2:38
Nothing can fan the flames of teen violence
like the mistrust and conflicts which result
from racial divisions. Bridging Racial
Divisions explores the painful personal
consequence of racial conflicts as teenagers
from different racial groups come together to
discuss the stereotypes and prejudice that
divide them.
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New Club Drugs: Designed for Death
3:12
Just when professionals thought they had
learned all the hazards of these drugs, a new
crop of dangerous substances called New Club
Drugs has sprung up, including Foxy - a pill
that is two times stronger than Ecstasy and
available at half the cost. Others are called
AMT, YABA, Blue Mystic, and 2C-B. The program
highlights each new club drug and the very
real health hazards, including risk of death.
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Myths of Marijuana Debunked
3:13
School is a place where myths about marijuana
abound. Many teens fervently believe that
this drug isn't addictive, doesn't harm the
brain, doesn't impair driving, and can't harm
their future. Using the latest facts,
science, and statistics, this program debunks
these myths and proves marijuana use to be a
deadly danger.
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Most Used, Most Abused Drugs: Tobacco
Horror Picture Show
2:5
A student sends his younger brother a text
message, saying he saw him out behind the
school smoking with some other kids. Lil’
Bro tells him to back off and quit being a
hypocrite, since he used to smoke too. But
big brother doesn’t give up.
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Most Used, Most Abused Drugs: Smoking
The Toxic Truth
2:18
A familiar exchange from teenagers about
relationships opens Smoking the Toxic Truth,
a tobacco prevention video that discourages
young people from smoking. They meet Terry
Jones, a larynx cancer patient struggling
with the results of his choice to smoke.
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Most Used, Most Abused Drugs: Marijuana
The Gateway Drug
1:39
Logan texts Lee the shocking news that Dana
has been kicked out of school for smoking
marijuana on campus. Lee thinks the school
administration is wrong for making such a big
deal since “it’s only weed.” Logan
thinks Dana made a big mistake, risking
everything by smoking pot./nThis typical
debate between students leads this marijuana
prevention video, with students who’ve
learned the hard way passing on their
knowledge that marijuana starts a lifestyle
of drug use. Their first joint can lead
students to hard drugs, prison, or even
death. Former teen users beg students not to
take that step.
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Most Used, Most Abused Drugs: Binge
Drinking Blowout Show 2.
2:9
A cell phone text conversation informs us
that Justin is dead after “passing out”
playing “Hot Shots,” a drinking game.
This texting conversation opens Binge
Drinking Blowout, a “no-use” message
documentary focusing on how excessive
drinking affects young adults.
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Maple Ave The Hurting: Cutting for
Relief
2:1
Ashley resorts to "cutting" to cope with an
abusive father, who's regularly victimized
her family. Like a growing number of teens
nationwide, Ashley regularly cuts her arms
and legs, substituting her overwhelming inner
pain and rage with an external pain that she
is seemingly better able to manage. This last
illusion is finally dispelled in a
heart-wrenching ending that finds a desperate
Ashley reaching out to a sympathetic teacher
for help.
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Maple Ave Promise Me: Parents with
Addictions
2:35
Ann is forced to face the grim reality that
her parents' addictions (alcoholism and
gambling) are slowly destroying her family.
Ann is forced to face the truth about her
alcoholic mother's denial of reality and her
father's gambling problem when he gambles
away her college fund. She soon grows deeply
depressed. Her brother and best friend sense
something is wrong. Will they be able to
avert a potential tragedy...?
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Maple Ave P.S. I Miss You: The Aftermath
of Suicide
1:53
After a year and a half, Tanya and her family
are still trying to cope with the suicide of
her older brother. During this time, Tanya
has been coping by helping others, but
gradually this proves not to be enough, and
she turns to drinking to ease her pain (in
between haunting dreams about her dead
brother). Ultimately, things get out of
control and her best friend, Jenny,
intervenes to get her friend some much-needed
help.
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Maple Ave More Than This: Body Image
1:56
Donnie turns to steroid abuse to help him
"measure up" on the basketball court. Not
long after, he finds his life slowly spinning
our of control as his girlfriend, Angela
tries in vain to help him kick his addiction.
In the meantime, Angela is also struggling to
convince her friends, Dara and Lucy, that,
contrary to what they've read on the
internet, anorexia and bulimia are not
"lifestyle choices" but, instead, serious
medical disorders.
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Maple Ave Loves Me Not: Dating Violence
2:10
Focuses on dating/domestic violence from the
point of view of a 17 year old deceased
victim named Cari. Cari was relentlessly
beaten by her boyfriend, Marcos and so
viciously bullied by his friends after
leaving him that she, ultimately, took her
own life. Now Cari finds herself helplessly
watching the same thing happen all over again
to another girl, Sharon (Marcos’ new
girlfriend).
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Maple Ave Jenny's Reasons: A Story
About Teen Depression
1:49
This program provides a haunting look at teen
depression and family dynamics that surround
it. Jenny is in the throes of clinical
depression, unable to understand the reasons
she feels so bad all the time. Deeply
confused and desperately overwhelmed, she
makes plans to end her life - plans that are
ultimately thwarted when her best friend,
Tanya, confronts her and shares a dark secret
of her own.
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Maple Ave Hating Tami: A Look at Female
Bullying
2:35
Angela and her friends take every opportunity
to make Tami's life miserable, even going so
far as to pose as a boy interested in Tami on
a social networking site. During the film, we
meet Tami's and Angela's parents, which gives
us insight into the girls' behavior and what
life stressors they face.
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Maple Ave Ghosts in the Hall
1:27
This program focuses on teen bullying and the
tragedies inherent when parents as well as
their teens unfairly label one another. Jim
has reached the edge of violence after being
the victim of incessant bullying.
Unfortunately, Jim's family doesn't help cope
with his problems and things get
progressively worse. In contrast, Jenny's
family engages in healthy confrontation as
they cope with their concerns following
Jenny's period of depression.
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