STDs and Underage Drinking Prevention Media Campaign For Girls
07/06/2010
Join TeenLine Hawaii and the Chamber of Commerce
in preventing underage drinking and STDs.
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Through Our Eyes: Issue 2
05/03/2010
Through Our Eyes: Celebrate Safe Love
Join us in our "Safe Love" campaign for the nationally recognized May Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month! In celebration of the month, this issue focuses on issues of teen pregnancy prevention, abstinence, birth control options, STI's, and other reproductive health information. Only through knowledge do we have the power to make informed and positive decisions for our lives.
“Through Our Eyes” is a zine produced by the youth for the youth in collaboration with Teenline Hawai`i. “Through Our Eyes” is a creative outlet for us to share and express our views, feelings, and interests. What is a zine? A zine is a self-published underground publication, an abbreviated magazine of sorts.“Through Our Eyes” is created and distributed freely for youth across the state. Are you a writer, poet, artist? To submit your works contact us at info@teenlinehawaii.org.
Teenline Hawai`i strives to empower teens to become active community participants, raise awareness on issues teens are facing, and provide credible resources on a variety of issues like sex, alcohol and other drugs, emotions, family, relationships, school, violence, GBLTQ, foster care, activism, and personal development.
TeenLine Hawaii Youth Leadership Opportunity
05/03/2010
Download Youth Leader Packet HERE.
Download Youth Leader Application HERE.
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STDs and Underage Prevention Drinking Media Campaign for Girls
04/15/2010
WIN A JAMBA JUICE GIFTCARD!
Click HERE to test your knowledge and win!
Join TeenLine Hawaii and the Chamber of Commerce
in preventing underage drinking and STDs
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"Through Our Eyes"
02/23/2010
Teenline Youth Leaders Launch Their New Publication!
“Through Our Eyes” is a zine produced by the youth for the youth in collaboration with Teenline Hawai`i. “Through Our Eyes” is a creative outlet for us to share and express our views, feelings, and interests. What is a zine? A zine is a self-published underground publication, an abbreviated magazine of sorts.
Teenline Hawai`i strives to empower teens to become active community participants, raise awareness on issues teens are facing, and provide credible resources on a variety of issues like sex, alcohol and other drugs, emotions, family, relationships, school, violence, GBLTQ, foster care, activism, and personal development.
“Through Our Eyes” is created quarterly, and distributed freely to youth across the state. Are you a writer, poet, artist? To submit your works contact us at info@teenlinehawaii.org.
May Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month Contests
02/23/2010
May Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month contests are here!
Poster Contest (Entry Form)
Deadline: April 12th, 2010
Create entry using the slogan: Live Life Before You Give Life
Prizes: $60, $40, and $20 Gift Cards.
Quiz Question Contest (Entry Form)
Deadline: April 12th, 2010
Submit a question and answer relating to teen pregnancy prevention or STD/STI prevention.
10 Winners: Will recieve gift cards and their question will be featured in the May Teen Pregnancy Prevention Quiz.
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STDs and Underage Drinking Prevention Media Campaign for Girls
02/01/2010
safe?
We hear about teens drinking and see a lot about alcohol in movies and TV. But what’s real about underage drinking? Check-out Katie’s story and figure out truth vs. myth.
Katie: HEY AMY! OMG you wouldn’t believe what happened at Blake’s party last night!
Amy: What, what, what?!?!
Katie: So Nick and I were just chilling at the party. We started drinking and we ended up doing it.
Amy: Hey, I thought you were going to wait.
Katie: Yeah, I was. But, we started drinking and you know…
Amy: Wait, were you safe?
Katie: Oh yeah, I’m on the pill.
Amy: But what about STDs?
Katie: Oh I never thought about that…but don’t worry I’m the only girl he’s slept with.
Amy: Hey, you know I like Nick. But what if he’s been with other girls?
safe?
True or False
1. If you are on the pill, you don’t have to worry about STDs.
False. The pill can help to prevent pregnancy. But, it doesn’t help to prevent STDs. Abstinence (not having sex) is the only 100% way to prevent STDs. Using a condom can also help to prevent STDs.
2. If I’ve had sex I should get tested for STDs.
True. If you find out you have an STD you can get treated.
3. Most teens in Hawai’i don’t drink.
True. 70% of teens in Hawai’i don’t drink.
(source: morethanyouthink.org)
Want a chance to win a $10 Jamba Juice card?? Take our short 3 question quiz testing your knowledge HERE.
10th ANNUAL BACKYARD JAM
01/11/2010
10th Annual Backyard Jam
General Information
What: 10th Annual Backyard Jam
Where: Kapi`olani Park Bandstand
When: Sunday, February 28, 2009; 12:00-5:00 p.m.
Purpose: To provide a fun and safe afternoon of entertainment, fun, games, activities, and learning for Hawaii’s public.
Register your organization for a resource booth
Hawaii teens death spurs warnings on alcohol poisoning
05/10/2009
Hawaii teen's death spurs warnings on alcohol poisoning
Poisonings on rise; many fear youth won't heed warnings
Although relatively rare in Hawai'i, deaths from alcohol poisoning are on the rise and Carol McNamee worries that other young people won't learn from Makamae's death.
With a blood alcohol level more than five times the .08 driving limit in Hawai'i, Makamae "had an extraordinary amount to drink," said McNamee, who founded the Hawai'i chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which works to prevent underage drinking.
"I don't think getting to the point of death is a common occurrence here," McNamee said. "But many, many young people are drinking way too much and getting, very, very sick. Teenagers are just not educated about the dangers of drinking so much."
It can take as little as two drinks to start feeling impaired and Dr. William Haning, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Hawai'i's John A. Burns School of Medicine who specializes in addiction, believes more drinkers may be in trouble than they realize.
"More often," Haning said, "people get very close to death without actually knowing it."
Services were scheduled for last night and today for Makamae, with burial at 1 p.m. today at Valley of the Temples Memorial Park.
She "was a beautiful girl," said Audrey Wolz, who had been her counselor at Roosevelt High School last year. "She always lit up the room when she walked in with her smile."
Makamae earned good grades, was popular with the other kids, paddled and danced hula in a Merrie Monarch-winning halau.
"She could be a little sassy but she didn't get in trouble," Wolz said. "She definitely had spirit."
drinking to death
Police say Makamae and at least four underage friends had been drinking on July 30 at the Hawai'i Kai home of Michael Clark, 24. He was charged Thursday night with five counts of promoting intoxicating liquor to a person under 21, a misdemeanor.
He posted $10,000 bail and is scheduled to make his initial appearance in Honolulu District Court at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 18.
Investigators aren't certain how much or what kind of alcohol Makamae drank at Clark's home, said Honolulu police Sgt. Kim Buffett.
But, Buffett said, "we believe he was serving the drinks to her" and four of her friends.
Makamae, of Papakolea, was found unresponsive at Clark's home and was taken to Straub, where she died.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office lists Makamae's cause of death as "acute alcohol intoxication" and it appears to be the first death of its kind so far in 2009, state Health Department officials said.
Between 1991 and 2008, Hawai'i saw 22 deaths that were considered "unintentional alcohol poisonings," according to Dan Galanis, epidemiologist with the Health Department's Injury Prevention and Control Program. A total of 39 other people died of drug poisonings in which alcohol was a contributing factor, Galanis said.
Because of the way deaths are reported, "it is likely that alcohol was involved in a lot more of the drug poisonings," Galanis said.
During the same period, 88 patients were treated every year on average for nonfatal injuries that included the "toxic effect of alcohol," Galanis said.
Most troubling is the increase in deaths connected to alcohol poisoning in 2007 and 2008.
In addition to the two people who died of alcohol poisoning in 2007 and five more in 2008, two others in 2007 and four more in 2008 also died of drug poisoning in which alcohol was involved, Galanis said.
With a blood alcohol level of .433 grams per deciliter, the odds were against Makamae, Haning said.
Whether they're 15 years old or 50, half of all people who consume enough alcohol to reach a level between .4 and .5 will die, Haning said.
"The alcohol will reach back, squeeze down hard on your respiratory center activity until you essentially stop breathing," Haning said. "Or it may cause you to suppress an adequate gag reflex. If you're comatose and you throw up, you'll end up aspirating it and getting it in your airways."
People process alcohol according to physical size or body mass — and gender.
But after two beers, two glasses of wine or two shots of hard alcohol, a typical person will reach a blood alcohol level of .03 to .04 and be feeling the effects, Haning said.
By the time they get to .08, they are legally too drunk to drive in Hawai'i and most other states.
"Older people may have developed a tolerance and the adaptive skills of being drunk," Haning said. "They may be acquainted with the business of being drunk. But, unfortunately, it still leads people to doing stupid things like driving."
The difference for young drinkers is that they're unaccustomed to the effects, Haning said, and "may panic faster or underestimate the impact of the alcohol."
The amount of alcohol needed to get to .1 may vary.
"But even though they had to drink substantially different amounts to get to the same level," Haning said, "a 100-pound female at .1 is as stupid and intoxicated as a 300-pound linebacker who is also at .1."
At .2, a drinker will feel the effects of a low-level coma.
"Most people won't be able to hold their beer glass anymore," Haning said. "They may be having a great time and may not remember the night before — that 'lampshade on the head' effect."
By the time a drinker reaches a blood alcohol level of .3, "she would be pre-comatose. You're very close to stopping breathing."
Makamae would have been a junior at Roosevelt when the school year began on Aug. 3.Instead, it was Makamae's parents, Jason and Tracy, and other family members who showed up when the entire student body of 1,400 gathered in two separate assemblies on Aug. 14.
The students cheered as class leaders were introduced and listened as school rules were reinforced. But at the end of each assembly, Makamae's parents spoke for about five minutes and implored students to learn from their daughter's death, said Wolz, her former counselor.
Tracy "talked about how hard it was for her to lose her daughter — and if it could happen to her daughter, it could happen to anyone," Wolz said. "She talked about having respect for themselves and not taking for granted what they have; that there are so many people who care about them and want them to do well.
"It was a very powerful message," Wolz said.
Some of Makamae's friends wore T-shirts that carried Makamae's picture in her memory. They also put up two large banners around the campus so Makamae's friends could write down their thoughts of how much she meant to them.
And when each of the banners was presented to Makamae's family at the end of the two assemblies, students, faculty and family cried.
But Wolz worries that the moment — and its message — will be forgotten.
"A lot of kids think, 'It might have happened to Makamae but it'll never happen to me,' " Wolz said. "They think they're bullet-proof. We need to keep sending the message home that they're not."
Am I Fat?
01/25/2009
I'm a teenager and I'm not sure if I'm overweight. Am I fat?
By Paige Waehner, About.com
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http://exercise.about.com/od/weightlossfaqs/f/amifat.htm?nl=1 Updated: February 9, 2009
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I'm a teenager and I'm not sure if I'm overweight. Am I fat?
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measurement that compares your height and weight to find out if you’re at a healthy weight. To use the calculator, you’ll need to know your age, weight and how tall you are:
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What It Means
The BMI calculations for teens are used differently than the calculations for adults. For kids and teens, your BMI is plotted on a growth chart for girls or a growth chart for boys to show where you are compared to other people your age. This number is just a starting point and doesn't take into account things like how much muscle you have or how large or small your frame is, things that may make your BMI higher even if you're not necessarily overweight.
What If I’m Overweight?
If the BMI calculation shows you’re overweight, don’t panic. As a teenager, your body is constantly changing and growing and there are many factors that experts look at to decide whether there's a weight problem or not. Take these steps to make sure you get the help you need:
- Talk to your parents and your doctor. Your parents, doctor or school nurse can help you figure out if your weight is something to worry about.
- Get some exercise 18 Year Old Virgin video . Whether you’re overweight or not, exercise is important for keeping you strong and managing your weight. Try to be as active as possible every day, getting in at least 30-60 minutes of any activity you enjoy - riding a bike, walking, playing a sport or even active video games like Wii Fit or Dance Dance Revolution.
- Work on Healthy Eating. Talk to your parents about your diet and how you can make it healthier. Cutting out soda, chips or candy and adding more fruits and vegetables is one simple way to make your diet more healthful.
- Educate Yourself. When you know about your situation, you can make better decisions. Read through all the things that affect your weight and take some time to learn more about whether you’re overweight or if you need to work on your body image.
- Keep it Safe
. You may be tempted to go on a crash diet, skip meals or do hours of exercise to lose weight. Unfortunately, those aren’t safe and usually end up backfiring, making you so hungry, you end up eating even more. You need food on a regular basis to keep your body going and skipping meals or starving yourself will make you miserable and could lead to an eating disorder over the long term. More about how not to lose weight.
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