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Show Workshop on Drugs and Alcohol to be Held Here The Grand County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board announced an-nounced this week a workshop entitled "Community Profiles" Pro-files" will be held in Moab April 9th and 10th. The workshop will deal with drug and alcohol problems in the community and offers sessions for virtually every segment of the city and area. Consultants from Maryland, California, Colorado, Texas and Utah will conduct the workshop. The State of Utah, through the Utah Division of Alcoholism Alcohol-ism and Drugs, are financing the project, the first in several years to be held throughout the state. The purpose of the workshop work-shop is to study attitudes of the general public and provide information valuable to the various groups expected to attend. Over 500 brochures are now in the mail to interested person, but the conference is open to anyone. Inquiries can be made to the Moab Office of Alcohol Information Infor-mation in the Arches Building. Registration will start at 10 :00 a.m. Friday, April 9. in the lobby of the courthouse. Sessions will start at noon with a luncheon. Featured speaker at the luncheon will be Dr. Gary Jorgenson, Director of the University of Utah Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. Registration for the general public will be five dollars, with the state paying the cost of one meal. Students will not be charged for registration. For those who wish to obtain college credit through the University of Utah, one hour of graduate or undergraduate credit is available at a cost of ten dollars. Friday's sessions will involve in-volve medical and social services, communications skills and values clarification. Saturday morning groups will deal with parent effectiveness training, conflict management, manage-ment, and connumity alternatives. alterna-tives. Saturday afternoon ses- sions involve law enforcement, employee programs and humanizing hu-manizing education. Registrants Regis-trants can make their choices of sessions. In addition to the visiting consultants, there will be three featured speakers. As noted, Dr. Jorgenson will open the workshop. At the Saturday luncheon, Miles Turnbull, Editor of the San Juan Record, will speak. Saturday afternoon, after-noon, at the conclusion of the workshop, William Hale, Di- , rector of Program Development, Develop-ment, National Health 'Systems, 'Sys-tems, Inc., of Newport Beach, California will be the speaker. Optional activities for Saturday Satur-day evening are still in the planning stage. Except for Saturday evening, the sessions will be held at the courthouse. |