Parent Ambassador Dale Woolery Speaks About the Power to Give and Receive Help

Parent Ambassador Dale Woolery speaks about the power to give and receive help – Dale Woolery, Associate Director at the Iowa Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy, believes that addiction is both a treatable and preventable disease. Being both a parent and grandparent, he has first-hand knowledge of the many resources available to parents/caregivers, whether it’s on how to talk to kids about drugs, how to intervene in their drug use, or how to find treatment. There is help out there, all you have to do is ask. You are never alone.

Before the abuse, 4-year-old thrived

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Patty Ojeda-Quintero, the biological grandmother of Josiah Williams, sits near a corner of her home where photos and an urn holding the ashes of Williams is kept in remembrance. Williams was found deceased in his home in December 2012 and his parents …
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Thoughts on Liam Gallagher

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Liam epitomises the type of behaviour that made parents appalled at their children's fondness for rock bands in the 60s – had he been around then, TVs would have been flying out of his hotel window on a regular basis. His brother Noel – just as …
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W.Va. Senate panel studies roots of child poverty

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Toxic stress is stress that is severe and sustained and is often the result of damaging problems such as homelessness, hunger, absentee parents, domestic violence and drug abuse. Toxic stress can have actual physical impact on the brain development of …
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