For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Have You Looked in Your Kid’s Backpack?, a parent’s resource to help detect underage drug and alcohol use, begins at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday at East Hill Elementary School, 9825 S. 240th St., Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The event \u2013 hosted by The Kent Drug Free Coalition in partnership with the Kent School District, Heidi’s Promise and the Kent Police Youth Board \u2013 features a presentation for parents to provide them the clues that indicate their child may be experimenting with drugs or alcohol, as well as what can be done to prevent it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A separate presentation for 6th-12th graders will emphasize the consequences of underage substance abuse and offers skills they can use to stay away from drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n There will also be an awards ceremony for an “Above the Influence” video contest for students put on by the Kent Police Youth Board.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Town Hall discussion presenters:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Kent Police Department detectives will discuss trends they are seeing and what parents can look for.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Albert Sandoval from Lakeside Milam will talk about the importance of communication between parents and their kids, steps for prevention\/intervention. He will also bring kids with him who have been through treatment. They will discuss current trends in schools and how parents can be a positive influence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Eric Munson of Heidi’s Promise is a prevention\/intervention specialist who promised, after his daughter’s death, to talk about dangers that can come with drug and alcohol use.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have You Looked in Your Kid’s Backpack?, a parent’s resource to help detect underage drug and alcohol use, begins at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday at East Hill Elementary School, 9825 S. 240th St., Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}