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September 26, 2005School Health Programs Department
How to Talk to your Kids about Anything: Tip #5 [Communicate Your Values]
As a parent, you have a wonderful opportunity to be the first person to talk with your child about tough issues like drugs and violence before anyone else can confuse him with "just-the-facts" explanations that lack the sense of values and moral principles you want to instill. Likewise, when talking with your child about sex, remember to talk about more than "the birds and the bees," and communicate your values. Remember: research shows that children want and need moral guidance from their moms and dads, so don't hesitate to make your beliefs clear.
Free Art Classes for High School Students
Out of Site: Center for Arts Education
(at City Arts and Tech High School in San Francisco)

THE BOOTH: Beats + Rhymes + Recording Studio = Demo
Myron Hardy

Can you rap? Are you inspired enough, motivated enough, HUNGRY enough to record your own songs? If you said yes to any of these questions, The Booth is the class for you. You'll write your own material, choose your own beats, record your own songs using recent technology, have your picture taken to make your demo complete, and write a killer artist statement that will attract the eyes of whoever reads it.

ACT OUT: Escape Your Day-to-Day & Enter the World of Theater
Leah Greenberg

In this class we will dabble in different styles of acting - improvisation, physical theater, method acting, hip-hop theater. The general course is mapped out: we'll start with theater games, then work on characters, monologues and scene-work, and end with you showing your skills in a final performance. But the stops along the way are up to you...

PHOTOGRAPHY: From Ideas to Prints
Bayete Ross Smith

What does it require to compose, take and print a good photo in a real darkroom? We will learn the fundamental techniques of photography (composition, lighting, framing . . .) and how to create photographs that are important to you. As part of this class, we will spend 2 Saturday afternoons in a professional darkroom.

THE LIVING CITY: Art & Sculpture
Shashari Murphy and Josh Short

Using found materials and traditional art supplies, we will explore living in the city. You will be drawing, painting, building, printing, sculpting and looking at the world around you in a totally new way. What is art? Why is art important? How can you have a voice in your community through art?

WHEN?

THE BOOTH
October 6 - December 8
Mondays/Thursdays 4 - 6 p.m.

ACT OUT
October 5 - December 8
Mondays/Thursdays 4 - 6 p.m.

PHOTOGRAPHY
October 17 - December 7 plus 2 Saturdays afternoons to be determined
Mondays/Wednesdays 4 - 6 p.m.

THE LIVING CITY
October 6 - January 19 plus 3 Saturday afternoons to be determined
Tuesdays/Thursdays 4 - 6 p.m.

WHO?

The workshops are open to everyone in 9th through 12th grade whether you are an experienced artist or not. Classes have a maximum of 15 students

HOW?

Classes are free! Interested students can download an application from our website, call 415-841-2209, or stop by the Center.

WHERE?

All programs are located at Out of Site Youth Arts Center at City Arts and Tech High School, 301 deMontfort Avenue (one block off of Ocean at Jules Street.) Near MUNI K line and Balboa Park BART.

COURSE CREDIT?

Students can receive a semester's worth of UC approved art credit for The Living City and partial elective course credit for the other classes.

Questions? Call 415-841-2209, email leah@outofsite-sf.org, or visit our website.

Out of Site: Center for Arts Education is a non-profit organization committed to invigorating the educational climate in high schools by expanding and nurturing arts education. Our mission is

* to DEVELOP new models of teaching about the arts at the high school level
* to INSPIRE community engagement and activism by participating in the world through the creation of art, and
* to CREATE connections among communities through programs that are diverse in their participants, content, and teaching methods.

CASA Issues Another Dinner and Drugs Report
Kids who eat dinner with their families are less likely to use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, according to a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA).

CASA, which released a report with similar findings in 1998, said in its "The Importance of Family Dinners II" study that more kids reported eating dinner with their family at least five times weekly. Those who did not were three times more likely to try marijuana, more than twice as likely to smoke, and one-and-a-half times more apt to drink alcohol.

"One factor that does more to reduce teens' substance-abuse risk than almost any other is parental engagement, and one of the simplest and most effective ways for parents to be engaged in their teens' lives is by having frequent family dinners," said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA's chairman. "If I could wave a magic wand to make a dent in the substance-abuse problem, I would make sure that every child in America had dinner with his or her parents at least five times a week."

Frequent family diners also did better in school, the study said.

The study was sponsored by TV Land and Nick at Nite's Family Table.

Wellness Center
Jennifer Kenny-Baum (Wellness Coordinator) is available daily.

Monica Murphy (nurse) is available daily.

Ian Enriquez (Youth Outreach Coordinator) is available daily.

Sheening Lin (psychologist) is available daily.

Ulash Thakore (academic counselor) is available Monday thru Wednesday.

Lauren Marks (counselor) is available Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Kory Okun (relationship counselor) is available Tuesdays.

Wayne Hayes (counselor) is available on Wednesdays.

James Guay (therapist) is available on Wednesdays.

Pauline Ong (Cantonese speaking counselors) is available on Wednesdays.

Megan Agee (Community Safety Organizer) is available on Thursdays.

How to Stay Looking Young
by Kathleen Doheny

Here are the 10 unhealthy behaviors mentioned most often by anti-aging experts -- and how to reform yourself.

3- Moving too little
"Inactivity is an addiction that many of us have," says William J. Evans, PhD, a professor of geriatric medicine, nutrition and physiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. But even a little bit of activity can extend our life, reduce the chances of being overweight, reduce stress and maybe even ward off Alzheimer's disease. "The first step is to just make the decision to be more active," Dr. Evans says. "That can be as simple as parking a little further away and walking or taking the stairs instead of the elevator." Then work your way up to the exercise level recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: moderate-intensity activity such as walking for 30 minutes or more, five or more days a week.
  

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