Hanover School Division's Dan Dacombe is a school based counsellor for the Addictions Foundations of Manitoba in the school based program. Dan works with drug and alcohol related issues as they come up in the schools. He does a lot of prevention and education work in the schools as requested by the HSD about 5 years ago now. 

Dan stopped by the AM1250 Studio this moming to tell us that coming up tomorrow, an important event is coming up. It's a Parent Workshop. It's put on in partnership with HSD, the Steinbach Drug awareness committee and the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba. It's from 7:00 to 8:00 pm at Clearspring Middle School.  It's for all parents of children from Kindergarten to Grade 8 who are interested in learning more about how to talk to their kids about alcohol and drug use BEFORE it becomes a problem.  It will address youth related local drug trends, the do's and don'ts of talking to your kids about drugs and how to encourage the development of assertiveness in refusal skills. 

Thank you Dan for your time. Don't miss the workshop. Take the time.