2007 Newsletters

January
http://www.legacyofhope.com/January_2007.htm -Giving Girls Goals

February
http://www.legacyofhope.com/feb_2007.htm -Underage drinking

March
http:/// -DENIAL - Small Word, Big Impact

April
http://www.legacyofhope.com/Apr_2007.htm -Kids and Money -What They Need To Know

May
http://www.legacyofhope.com/May_2007.htm -Drug Test Your Teen - Yes or No - FREE DRUG TESTS AVAILABLE

June
http://www.legacyofhope.com/June_2007.htm -Free GRAND Subscription, Kids of Meth Parents, Prescription Drug Use in Rehab, Power of Parenting Day

July
http://www.legacyofhope.com/July_2007.htm -FOX NEWS LIVE Interview with Susie; Teens & Risk-Taking;Emotional Connection/Attunement facilitates Academic Achievement; Research on Zero Tolerance; and Parents Providing Alcohol at Parties

August
http://www.legacyofhope.com/Aug_2007.htm -Stop Childhood Obesity - Nutrition Newsletter

September
http://www.legacyofhope.com/Sept 2007.htm - Teen Emotional Issues - Talking Helps, Psychotropic Drugs and more

2006 Newsletters

January Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/jan_2006.htm -
iPod Influence on Teens & Education

February Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/feb_2006.htm -Teen Prescription Drug Abuse - Pharming Parties

March Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/mar_2006.htm -The Cheating Game

April Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/april_2006.htm -Teens and the Internet

May Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/May_2006.htm - Teens and Excess Stress

June Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/June_2006.htm -Dangerous Teen Trends - Choking Game, Racy Books

July Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/July_2006.htm -Sobriety High Schools, Recovery College, Resources on Underage Drinking

August Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/August_2006.htm -Teaching Teens Tolerance

September Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/Sept_2006.htm - Essential role of School Counselors in Middle & High School

October Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/Oct_2006.htm -Eating Issues of Teens

November Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/November_2006.htm -Arts Impact on Raising Healthy Kids

December Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/December_2006.htm -Teaching Teens Compassion

2005 Newsletters

January Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/jan_2005.htm -Alcohol Issues and Medical Community plus more

February Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/feb_2005.htm -Various topics - Household product Misuse, Alcohol Industry, etc

March Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/mar_2005.htm -Tobacco/Smoking Impact issues

May Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/may_2005.htm -Girl Aggression

June Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/june_2005.htm - Predatory Drugs and Young Adults

July Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/july_2005.htm - New Drug Concerns, Medical Research and USC Ban on Alcohol

August Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/aug_2005.htm -Sleep Deprivation - Impact on Teens

September Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/sept_2005.htm -Eating Habits and their Impact on Teens

October Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/oct_2005.htm -Teen Gambling Concerns

November Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/nov_2005.htm -Teen Depression

2004 Newsletters

January Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/jan_2004.htm -Inhalants, Suicide, Smoking articles

February Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/feb_2004.htm -Drinking - Variety of Interesting Perspectives re: Teen Drinking

March Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/mar_2004.htm -Youth Violence Issues

May Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/may_2004.htm -Teen Depression, Suicide

July Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/jul_2004.htm -Stress-Induced Teen Drinking, Specific State Alcohol Actions

August Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/aug_2004.htm -Juvenile Drug Court - Example - Orange County, California

October Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/oct_2004.htm -Youth Violence, Video Games, and more

November Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/nov_2004.htm -What Various Countries are Doing about Youth Alcohol and Substance Abuse

2003 Newsletter

Spring Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/spring_2003.htm -What's up with LEGACY OF HOPE Outreach

2002 Newsletter

Spring Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/spring_2002.htm -Rural America - Alcohol & Drugs Perspective

2001 Newsletters

Fall Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/fall_2001.htm -Lessons on Sex Learned on the Dance Floor/Freaking

Spring Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/spring_2001.htm -Various Prevention Topics

Winter Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/winter_2001.htm -Pre-Teen Fashion Concerns, Youth and Gun Violence, Verbal Abuse Impact

2000 Newsletters

Fall Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/fall_2000.htm -Dealing with Stress: How Men and Women Differ, various Prevention Articles

Spring Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/spring_2000.htm -Prevention Info, Service Learning Curriculum

Winter Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/winter_2000.htm -National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

1999 Newsletter

Fall Newsletter: http://www.legacyofhope.com/fall_1999.htm -Elements of a Good Prevention Program, Teen Violence Prevention

my book: 52 Ways To Protect Your Teen

iParenting Media Award, 2006 EXCELLENT PRODUCTS WINNER!

52 Ways to Protect Your Teen

Guiding Teens to Good Choices and Success

Author Susie Vanderlip, CSP

52 Ways is a clear and honest guide for parents, grandparents, educators,counselors, therapists, and for adults who care about Teens.

A great read for teens, as well, to get along better with parents and peers!

* Sleep better knowing your teen is well prepared to resist peer pressure.
* Written in 52 short, easy-to-read chapters
* Unique insights into the “why” and “how” teenagers think.

For more information about 52 Ways to Protect your Teen or to place an order visit www.waystoprotect.com

I wrote this book based on lengthy one-on-one conversations with 25,000 individual teens following my LEGACY OF HOPE® assemblies at their schools and youth conferences.

The world our youth are growing up in today is not the same as the world of our childhood. The pressures and the pains of adolescence are magnified multi-fold, and so are the means of escaping them. So we adults need a reality check AND we need to know how to reach teenagers raised in a digital, multi-media, sound-bite, extreme, star-studded, sexualized, endorsed drug-using social environment. Let's not forget that it is a bottom-line profits world today in which we've allowed corporate America to market everything under the sun to our youth with sexual messages we would have considered pornography a generation ago.

HOW TO with a mighty mix of HOPE! 52 Ways is easy to read -- read a little, read a lot, then re-read when you want to try out a new skill or approach to a teen, on a day he/she is sporting a less than communicative "attitude"!

Who I Am and What I Do

Maybe you just saw me at your school today, or maybe I talked at a conference you were at in the past... You may remember me best as "Julio", a gang member from the barrio with a mean, alcoholic dad and a painful past... Maybe you'll remember me best as the cheerleader in red whose dad drinks too much, or how about the soccer player whose parents just split and is now cutting on herself because of emotions she cannot face. Maybe you remember these or another of the 8 characters I portray in my one-woman show, LEGACY OF HOPE

All these characters are based on real teens and adults I’ve met on my journey to help teens understand the power and purpose of their feelings and, more importantly, how they drive us from within – how anger, sadness, grief, self-loathing, hopelessness and despair are important emotions that tell us we need to reach out and ask for help from caring and safe people.

I also hope you'll just remember me as Susie, the lady in the red jacket who spoke about a 15 year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who met in high school, fell madly in love, and later got married. Do you remember how I shared that they first tried alcohol and pot at parties in college (like parties in every high school in America today!)? I shared how HE really liked it. In fact, he turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the stress/emotions in his life. He was an intelligent and capable person who became a dentist, yet turned to prescription and illegal drugs to handle his feelings, fears, discomfort, anxiety, depression, and disappointments. Then, you may remember my sharing that SHE began to feel suicidal living with him. It didn’t matter how high he got or what he took to get there, he now was mean and angry or ignored her completely. She had been the high school valedictorian and voted Most Likely to Succeed. It did not matter. His criticisms and unkindness eroded her self-esteem. Then, one night, he self-medicated for the flu: took some prescription pain killer (like Oxycontin), drank some alcohol, and snorted lines of cocaine. In the middle of the night, his heart stopped; by morning he was gone. That morning at the age of 35, as I shared, my husband died. This was my story. And, of course, my pain. In the 20+ years since that happened, I have learned so many important lessons about dealing with feelings, how to get out of feeling like a victim, how to heal anger/shame/resentment, who to talk to about grief, and just what it takes to develop emotional wisdom – the key ingredient to feeling happy, joyous and free of past pain.

So, here I am – ready to be a resource to you and your friends if you get what I’m talking about – if someone else’s drinking, drug use, sexual acting out, unkindness, criticism, cruelty has affected your emotions like it did mine. If you come from a family where someone has a drinking or drug problem, or a family with verbal, physical, emotional abuse, perhaps you, too, need to know where to get help. I can help you with that. I am not a therapist, a counselor, or a licensed social worker. I am simply one person willing to share their experience, strength and hope along the road to emotional well-being – particularly if you’ve thought you were the only one dealing with such things.