Live & Virtual Presentation Dates Available.
The Courage to Speak® Foundation offers the Courage to Speak® Presentation for students, parents, educators, and community members live and virtual. To request more information on our Drug Prevention Education Programs and Services, please fill-out a Drug Prevention Program Request or call the office at 203-831-9700.
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16th Annual Courage to Speak® Empowering Youth to be Drug-free Family Night – Nathan Hale Middle School Norwalk, CT
March 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
16th Annual Courage to Speak® Empowering Youth to be Drug-free Family Night March 2020 Raffle Winners Announcement
1st Prize Pete Smith One Coupon Booklet for 1 Large Pizza a Week for 1 Year redeemable at
Norwalk Pizza and Pasta ($500 Value)
2nd Prize John Blore 2020 Giant ATX 3 Disc Bike donated by the Gilbertson Family ($478 value)
3rd Prize Ron Montroz Green Fees for 4 for 18 Holes of Golf with use of 2 Carts redeemable at
Silvermine Golf Club ($350 Value)
4th Prize Bill Purcell Gift Certificate to Aitoro Appliances ($250 Value)
5th Prize Bob Virgulak Gift Certificate Dinner Package ($125 Value) includes
• $50 Gift Certificate to O’Neill’s Irish Pub
• $50 Gift Certificate to Don Carmelo’s
• $25 Gift Certificate to Partners Cafe
6th Prize Paul Lenoci Gift Certificate Dinner Package ($75 Value) includes
• $50 Gift Certificate to Osteria Romana
• $25 Gift Certificate to Valencia Luncheria
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ALL COMMUNITIES INVITED
This evening features students presenting their drug prevention message from Nathan Hale, Ponus Ridge, Roton and West Rocks Middle Schools, Brookside Elementary School and Side by Side Charter School. Drug prevention artwork, created by students during classes they’ve taken as part of the Courage to Speak® Drug Prevention Education Program taught by their health class teachers, will be displayed. The evening also includes a presentation for parents and students by Ginger Katz, Founder of the Courage to Speak® Foundation. All communities are invited to attend!
Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be Dr. Albert Sackey, Principal of Nathan Hale Middle School. Participants will include Norwalk’s Mayor, Harry Rilling, Chief of Operations, Dr. Frank Costanzo, and Norwalk Deputy Chief, Susan Zecca, in addition to school principals, prevention and treatment professionals, teachers, parents, business and community leaders, representatives of state and local government and members of the Courage to Speak Foundation Board of Directors.
“Bringing students and parents together to talk openly and honestly about the dangers of drugs is the most important goal of the Courage to Speak® Foundation, Empowering Youth to be Drug Free Family Night. By helping our students become outstanding anti-drug advocates and mentors for their friends and younger siblings, we hope to eradicate the problem of drug and alcohol use among young people across the country.”
Ginger Katz, CEO and Founder of the Courage to Speak® Foundation