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Show Wednesday, June 6, 1998 Study: behavior modifications of parents, kids prevent drug abuse -SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Teaching new behaviors and skills to parents and children while making more in-home crisis services available to troubled families can help prevent substance sub-stance abuse by youth, a Utah study concluded. 1 Those steps are included in new federal guidelines released Wednesday during The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors conference confer-ence in Salt Lake City. ' The prevention steps worked for 850 families in high-risk sehools in Utah, said Karol Kumpfer, director of the federal Center for Substance Abuse revention and a University of Jtah associate professor of lealth education. Kumpfer directed a three-year tudy on at-risk first-graders and Drawdown error in Red Butte Heservoir kills endangered fish SALT LAKE CITY (AP) At least four endangered fish and one sensitive- species fish died his week when the Forest Service drew down Red Butte Reservoir near the University of Jtah, biologists said. They determined Wednesday hat two June suckers died in the eservoir and two died in Red Butte Creek after being flushed nit ot the reservoir during the Iraw-down. Also, at least one Bonneville utthroat trout died in the reser voir. June suckers are a federally protected endangered species. The Bonneville cutthroat is a ensitive species, a possible can- idate tor federal protection. Six more inmates and brisons will be filled to SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah state Prison entered the weekend six inmates shy of its maxi- m capacity.'' As ot ' 1 nursaay ftiarning, 5,uoz inmates were $ehind bars. I Utah Department of Corrections spokesman Jack Ford (aid that is the highest number eld in the prison's history and nly a half-dozen away from the maximum the system can hold. But it also means the prison is Reaching critical mass as officials 1:ramble to find beds for the pris-ners pris-ners until next Tuesday. That, Ford said, is when 80 mates being paroled are leased. "There's a critical shortage of eds right now, ano lniaice isni flowing down," Ford said. He said officials have gone so r as to set up eight cots in the TPS 7 S i i n P i..AV,.L. i EN WOMEN their families in Tooele and Davis counties. Therapists start on children at young ages to prevent substance abuse later in life. The research found the approach resulted in "significant positive results with reductions in family conflict and improvement in children's positive behavior," she said. The university began the program pro-gram 10 years ago. It involved training community communi-ty groups on abuse-prevention techniques. Researchers started studying the program's results 18 months ago through a three-year grant from the federal substance-abuse prevention center. The program said faptors that help guard children against substance sub-stance abuse include: "We feel bad. That wasn't supposed sup-posed to happen," said Kathy Jo Pollock, spokeswoman for the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Since the Army abandoned the reservoir in March, the Forest Service has operated it under a temporary contract with a dam tender. The contract was meant to see the reservoir through the potentially poten-tially dangerous spring runoff season and expires June 24. Before that time, the Forest Service decided to lower the reservoir level so that it would accommodate inflows throughout the summer and fall. A miscommunication with the tender led to the reservoir being recreation room at one facility. Administrators have called county jails, which ship newly sentenced sen-tenced intnatefetcrthe prisowiewih week, asking them not to bring any new prisoners until next Tuesday. Only Salt Lake County could not comply, because jail officials must release inmates once the facility reaches capacity, Ford said. Millard County scraped up eight beds in its jail for prison inmates who were moved there Thursday. Ford said corrections officials considered triple-bunking inmates in a medium security facility in Draper, but decided against it. "The staffing problem is our biggest concern," he said. High turnover among corrections correc-tions employees due mostly to low wages has left 60 job vacan The Park A child's positive attitude and ability to adapt to changing circumstances. cir-cumstances. A close-knit family where there is consistent discipline and parental supervision of a child's daily activities. Close friends and an extended family that provides support. The program risk factors that can lead to substance abuse include serious behavior problems prob-lems in children, communication difficulties in the family, too much or too little discipline, parental abuse of substances, child abuse, peer rejection, neighborhood crime and failure to do well in school. In the training sessions, parents par-ents are taught skills to enhance protective factors in the home and reduce risk factors while children chil-dren are taught life and coping lowered too much too soon, said Pollock. The Forest Service is allowing the reservoir to return to levels that biologists believe will be sufficient suf-ficient to protect the fish. Water is especially critical now because June is the spawning season sea-son for the June sucker, which is native to Utah Lake and the lower Provo River. The Fish and Wildlife Service established a refuge population in Red Butte Reservoir two years ago as an insurance policy in its efforts to protect the native population, pop-ulation, whose numbers were decimated by water diversions and commercial fishing. Utah state the brim cies at the Draper facilities, requiring requir-ing remaining officers to work overtime to fill in, Ford said, o'' ..; r, That also means ,the off icers. left have less experience ; he said. Three years ago the average tenure of a corrections officer was nine years, compared to three years today. Relief may be on the way. New jails in Washington and Beaver counties are due to open this summer sum-mer and have offered to rent beds to the state. For a Free Injury Assessment by a Certified Athletic Trainer or Physical Therapist Call 647-5955 7T THE ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALTY HOSPITAL fffijl Park city I HC A Service of Intermountain Health Care Official Sports Medicine Provider for Record skills. Then parents and children are brought together for a family therapy session to improve communication. com-munication. Intervention services are brought into the home to solve problems. "When you bring all those things together, that's when we started seeing reductions in the children's' alcohol, drug and tobacco use," Kumpfer said. "But it takes all the components compo-nents to work." When Kumpfer and her colleagues col-leagues tested the therapies separately, sepa-rately, they found that the parental training therapy alone reduced the children's negative behavior, but it didn't improve their social skills. Improving the family relationship relation-ship as a unit is critical to success, she said. Pas, D .jiff) SUMMER CAMPS Computer Clauei One on One Instruction Tailored Butinen Seminars j Workttation Rental Upgrade! 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