0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 1
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          RICHARD M. ROMERO
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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 school of medicine's department of family, community and
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0024|     emergency medicine at the university of New Mexico and has
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0025|     since evolved into a program with multiple affiliations that
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0001|     provides a unique link between the community and the
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0002|     university; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, more than three thousand children and families
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0004|     throughout New Mexico have received adolescent social action
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0005|     program primary prevention services, which include encouraging
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0006|     at-risk adolescents to explore drug-free options and
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0007|     encouraging youth to work to implement social change; and
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0008|          WHEREAS, over the years, community services have included
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0009|     research, technical and teacher training and youth social
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0010|     action projects such as fotonovellas, community murals,
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0011|     involvement in campaigns against tobacco advertising,
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0012|     involvement in campaigns against the use of alcohol at the
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0013|     state fair, gang prevention task forces and presentations at
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0014|     local and national conferences; and
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0015|          WHEREAS, the adolescent social action program has
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0016|     provided training, practicum experience and education to over
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0017|     four hundred university students who act as facilitators with
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0018|     small groups of youth; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, programs such as the adolescent social action
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0020|     program should be encouraged to continue working for the
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0021|     betterment of society;
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0022|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0023|     OF NEW MEXICO that appreciation and encouragement be expressed
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0024|     to the staff of the adolescent social action program for its
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0025|     work in helping youth from at-risk communities and its role in
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0001|     making Albuquerque and New Mexico a better place to live; and
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0002|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0003|     transmitted to the president of the board of regents and the
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0004|     president of the university of New Mexico, to the vice
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0005|     president of the health sciences center and the Dean Roth
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0006|     school of medicine at the university of New Mexico and to the
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0007|     adolescent social action program.
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0008|                              
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