NCJ Number
170547
Editor(s)
J Heiser
Date Published
1992
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This film shows Tony Overman, founder of the National Youth I Care Hotline, speaking to a group of seventh grade students; he explains common feelings and family problems among youth, choices that adolescents experience in relation to alcohol use and other issues, and recommends that they call the hotline to talk about their problems.
Abstract
The assembly begins with jokes and a song about relationships among male and female adolescents. It next shifts into a discussion of common feelings and experiences among youth, particularly those whose parents are alcoholic, are experiencing separation or divorce, or are violent. He describes his own childhood, his father's desertion when he was age 3, and the alcoholism and spouse and child abuse perpetrated by one of this three stepfathers. He also describes how one of his high school peers appeared to be popular but died in a drunk-driving accident and how another student who was teased by other students committed suicide. He urges students to choose to take care of themselves, excel in one activity, and avoid pornography and other negative influences. He shows them a card with the toll-free telephone number of the I Care Hotline and urges students to call it if they have any kind of feeling problem they want to discuss.