ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR)– The Roanoke Prevention Alliance, a community coalition supported by Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare, is highlighting a new activity program within Roanoke City schools called “Shining Star.”
The Roanoke Prevention Alliance focuses on addressing and preventing underage substance abuse, and “Shining Star,” helps to start those conversations early by using age-appropriate language.
“What we do with the younger kids is we just work with them on communication skills. We work with them on how to be a leader, a good teammate, a good classmate, a good friend, a good sibling. How they can stop and think and make healthy choices, and then those skills will transfer on later in life when things like substances are introduced,” said Sarah Kate Brownmiller, the director of the Roanoke Prevention Alliance.
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The activity also helps to build a sense of community within the students, making sure they feel like they matter by showing off what makes them shining stars…