0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 1
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            RICHARD ROMERO
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ADOLESCENT SOCIAL ACTION
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0012|     PROGRAM AND URGING THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
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0013|     NEW MEXICO TO INCORPORATE THE PROGRAM INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF
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0014|     NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, the adolescent social action program is a
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0017|     collaborative, primary prevention program developed in
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0018|     Albuquerque whose goals are to reduce mortality and morbidity
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0019|     among adolescents and empower young people to be change agents
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0020|     in their communities; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, the adolescent social action program was formed
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0022|     in 1982 as the alcohol substance abuse prevention program in
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0023|     the department of family, community and emergency medicine at
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0024|     the university of New Mexico and has since evolved into a
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0025|     program with multiple affiliations that provides a unique link
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0001|     between the community and the university; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, more than three thousand children and families
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0003|     throughout New Mexico have received adolescent social action
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0004|     program primary prevention services, which include encouraging
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0005|     at-risk adolescents to explore drug-free options and
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0006|     encouraging youth to work to implement social change; and
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0007|          WHEREAS, over the years, community services have included
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0008|     research, technical and teacher training and youth social
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0009|     action projects such as fotonovellas, community murals,
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0010|     involvement in campaigns against tobacco advertising,
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0011|     involvement in campaigns against the use of alcohol at the
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0012|     state fair, gang prevention task forces and presentations at
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0013|     local and national conferences; and
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0014|          WHEREAS, the adolescent social action program has provided
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0015|     training, practicum experience and education to over four
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0016|     hundred university students who act as facilitators with small
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0017|     groups of youth; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, programs such as the adolescent social action
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0019|     program should be encouraged to continue working for the
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0020|     betterment of society;
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0021|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0022|     OF NEW MEXICO that appreciation and encouragement be expressed
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0023|     to the staff of the adolescent social action program for its
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0024|     work in helping youth from at-risk communities and their role
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0025|     in making Albuquerque and New Mexico a better place to live;
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0001|     and
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0002|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the senate urge the board of
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0003|     regents of the university of New Mexico to incorporate the
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0004|     adolescent social action program into the university of New
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0005|     Mexico school of medicine; and
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0006|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0007|     transmitted to the president of the board of regents and the
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0008|     president of the university of New Mexico, to the vice
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0009|     president of the health sciences center at the university of
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0010|     New Mexico and to the adolescent social action program.
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0011|                                  
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0012|       
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0013|   
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0014|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0015|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0016|   
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0017|   
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0018|                                                  March 11, 1997
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0019|   
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0020|   Mr. President:
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0021|   
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0022|       Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0023|   
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0024|                         SENATE MEMORIAL 1
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0001|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0002|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0003|   PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
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0004|   
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0005|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0010|   __________________________________
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0011|                                Cynthia Nava, Chairman 
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0015|   Adopted_______________________   Not
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0016|   Adopted_______________________
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0017|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0020|                     Date ________________________
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0022|   
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0023|   The roll call vote was<u> 7 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0024|           Yes:    7
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0025|           No:     0
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0001|                Excused:     Duran, Garcia, Gorham
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0002|           Absent: None
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0005|   SM001ED1
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