Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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 Lucas
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 Ana Perez
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Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Mission Statement
Thesis Questions
Demographics
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Needs/Problems
Solutions
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Our Goal and
Hopeful Outcome of
Fulfilled Goals
Negative Outcome of
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College - Fall 2009
We wanted to study
the impact of drug use on the community.
We want to research what makes people use.
use
We want to give the community a new
perspective on addicts; They’re
people too!
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
Thesis
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Questions
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What influences people to use?
What age do people generally start using?
What’ss the most commonly abused drug?
What
The affect of drugs on children
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Total Number of Survey’s: 100
Number of Spanish Survey’s: 7
6% Were Under the Age of 15
30% Were 16-20
18% Were
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21-25
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9% Were 26-30
37% Were 31+
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College - Fall 2009
Who Did We
Survey?
58%
Latino
3% AfricanAfrican American
1% Asian
29% White
9% O
Other
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College - Fall 2009
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Do You Have
Children?
17% Have 1
child
 19% Have 2-3
23
 7% Have 4-6
 17% have
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7+
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86 % Are U.S
Citizens
34 % Voted
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How Many People
Live In the
Household?
 21% 1-2 people
 31% 3-4 p
people
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 30% 5-7 people
 5% 8-10 p
people
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 7% 11+ people
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Watsonville /Aptos Cabrillo
Watsonville Plaza
Santa Cruz Co.
Co
Fellow Addicts
Family & Friends
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
Who is in Need?
Survey Question: How did you get
Introduced to drugs?
28% were influenced by family
67% were influenced by friends
14% were influenced by other
*Survey Question:
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Do you
believe addiction is a disease?
~83% of people surveyed
say
Yes
Digital Bridge Academy
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College - Fall 2009
*Survey
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Question: Do you
y know
someone who has died from drug
use?
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~73% of people surveyed said yes!!!!!
People still suffering in their addiction
The growing number of drug related deaths
continues to grow!!
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
What are the NEEDS?
Drug rehabilitation
D
h bilit ti programs ffor women
to go with their children
The need for more rehabilitation of addict,
instead of incarceration.
Parental Involvement and a better example
to be set for children
Drug Outreach programs
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Survey question:
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h age did you fi
first experiment
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with drugs?
57% EXPERIMENTED WITH DRUGS BETWEEN
THE AGES OF BEFORE 15 TO 20 YEARS OLD
Survey Question: Does drug abuse run in your family?
54% SAID YES
46% SAID NO
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Lack of communication between parents
and their children.
Lack of things
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Negative influences such as….parents,
friends,, g
gang
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members.
When children are taken from their
mothers while they get help..families are
destroyed
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
When all we hear on
the news is drug busts.
busts
When more and more
crimes are committed
because of nonrehabilitation.
When rehabilitation
programs are being
shut down due to lack
of money.
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College - Fall 2009
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There needs to be more facilities where women
can go to get treatment without being
separated from their children.
OF THE 45% OF WOMEN SURVEYED, 33% OF
THEM LOST THEIR CHILDREN TO THEIR
ADDICTION!
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they
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information
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children or themselves
if necessary.
Number of
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College - Fall 2009
7%
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To try to end the vicious cycle that the system
pulls addicts through.
93 % off people
p p surveyed
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addicts should be rehabilitated instead of sent
to prison.
Possibly change the way people view addicts.
22% of people surveyed said they thought
that addicts were bad people.
93%
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Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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gg barrier for
Research shows that the biggest
women trying to kick drugs or alcohol
dependence is the possibility of separation
from their children.
children
Las Hermanas was the only live-in facility that
aimed at Spanish speaking women in the
community and it’s now closed down! It also
housed pregnant women
The best hope for those of us afflicted with the
disease of addiction is to find live-in and long
term treatment
treatment.
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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program
that specifically
youth and parents.
Sometimes parents think that their children
are just “going through a phase” when in
reality their child has a problem.
problem
Last, there are some parents that are in
Last
complete denial when they need to step up and
support their children as much as possible
without
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iignoring
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Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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There is 2.3 million people incarcerated right
now. Most are level 1 non-violent offenders.
28% are women felons due to drugs.
Like mentioned before we believe that when a
addict is sent to prison and the real problem
isn’t taken care of, the addict comes out HARD
and not rehabilitated.
Addi h
Addicts
have a di
disease and
d they
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help!
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Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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The
community
views us as
a problem
instead of
people
with a
problem.
Addiction
does not
make bad
people,
drugs do!
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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Our first goal is to educate people on the
disease of addiction
Our second g
goal is to show the importance
p
of
recovery centers for women and children in
Watsonville.
Our third goal is to always set the best
example by not glorifying drug use and
encouraging
i youths
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school.
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Our last goal is to help lower the number of
people
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ti with
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drugs.
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College - Fall 2009
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For addicts to have full access to p
professional
help.
For women to feel safe enough to go to a
recovery center and
d get help
h l without
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fear
f
off
loosing her children.
Kids look up to us and we want to make sure
we give out a good message in hopes that kids
will want to go to school and get an education
rather then experiment with drugs.
Lower number of people experimenting=lower
number of addicts.
addicts
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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The number of drug related crimes will
continue to grow
The number of incarcerated p
people
p that are
continuously in and out of prison will
definitely increase with only negative affects.
If we continue to be oblivious to how close
drugs are to every one of us, the next
generations
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to come will
ill cultivate
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more
addicts.
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College - Fall 2009
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To lower the number of incarcerated people
and increase the number of rehabilitated
addicts.
To ensure a better future for children who’s
parents are addicts.
To reduce the impact of illegal drug usage.
We want people to be more aware of how close
drug use really is to being right inside of their
own homes.
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009
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In and outpatient treatment centers:
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AA and NA 12-step meetings throughout Santa Cruz
County.
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Men’s
 Si Se
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 Teen Challenge
 New Life of Pajaro
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Women's
 Mondenero Baskin
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College - Fall 2009
COED
 Janus of Santa Cruz
 Santa Cruz Residential
 The Camp
 Providence House
 New Life Of Santa Cruz
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Adolescents
 Tyler House in La Selva
 Crossroads of Corralitos
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Fall 2009