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(Friday, April 2, 2010) Reprinted with permission from The Intelligencer and Courier newspapers.
By Rachel Canelli
STAFF WRITER

 Coming to a classroom near you . . .
More than a dozen teens from the Council Rock and Bristol area school districts filmed a video this week at Council Rock High School South in Holland that will be part of Vita Education Services Education Services’ Decisions for Teens program.

 The plan uses relevant personal stories to teach a five-step interactive process for seventh through 12^th graders making decisions in real-life situations about school, family peer relationships, alcohol, drugs or sex, said Linda Wolfson, Vita Education Service’s executive director.

 For example, in one of the scenes, students will see a seemingly popular guy get nervous about asking a girl to dance.

 “A lot of young people don’t get it until they see it,“ said Sheryl Miller Hosey, a CR-South English teacher who participated in the filming. “This is trying to help kids understand that just because something seems one way on the outside, that doesn’t mean it’s the same on the inside.”        [Read more...]

Foundations Community Partnerships Executive Director Ron Bernstein presents a $7,500 grant to Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita Education Services, for Vita’s Decisions for Teens program.

Doylestown, PA (July 15, 2010) – Vita Education Services received a $7,500 Bucks Innovation and Improvement (BIIG) Grant from Foundations Community Partnership.  Vita will use the grant to support Decisions for Teens, a cognitively-based program that teaches a process for making decisions in real-life situations. This program helps at-risk adolescents learn that they do have control over their situations and can assume responsibility for their actions.