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    Week at a Glance

    Week of January 22-28

    Wednesday 25- 10th Annual Young Parent Conference at McGee Park, 8:30am-2pm

    Friday 27- 3rd Annual DWI March of Sorrow in Santa Fe, 12-1pm

    Saturday 28- Bird Walk at the Riverside Nature Center, 9-11am

    for more information on the events see our Featured Events section below or our Community and Family Friendly Events calendars

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Parent Education Nights

Tuesday, January 17, 6:30pm – 7:45pm
Piedra Vista Turano-Crisman Performing Arts Theatre

Plug into your child's future by attending Parent Education Nights: Empowering and Informing Parents. These educational sessions will be open to all Farmington Municipal School (FMS) parents and are designed to empower and inform parents on current trends and issues within FMS on safety and behavioral health. Parents, please take this opportunity to learn what issues your children face in today's society and what you can do to help them.

This will be part three of a four part series. Part one covered an overview of Trends and Issues; Part two covered Drug and Alcohol trends. Part three will cover Trends in Bullying and the final session will cover Trends in Emotional Well Being.

Empowering Effective Choices

Thursday, February 16, 6:00pm – 7:45pm
Sycamore Park Community Center
The San Juan County Maternal and Child Health Group, with funding from OptumHealth New Mexico, will host a Town Hall forum entitled “Empowering Effective Choices.” Teens ages 12 to 18 and their parents are invited to attend this moderated event.  The town hall will start with a cell phone survey, so participants are encouraged to bring their phones. Following the survey, Dr. Bruce G. Trigg will deliver his keynote address.

Dr. Bruce Trigg is pediatrician and retired public health physician on the faculty of the Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Education Project (ARSHEP) of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health; a project sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Society for Adolescent Medicine.  He retired from the New Mexico Department of Health where he was the Medical Director of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Program for Albuquerque and the northwest region of New Mexico. Dr. Trigg is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

 

Following Dr. Trigg’s address, a local panel of educators, community members and healthcare providers will field questions from the audience.  Pizza and beverages will be served. There is no cost for admission

 

 

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