This is your Call to Action! Contact us if you want to help us improve our city's health and make Malden and our surrounding cities and towns a better place to live.
Join us in our mission of improving the health of Malden residents by fostering citizen and agency collaboration aimed at the city's priority health issues.
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| Kids and Drugs: What Parents Need To Know
This video is designed specifically for parents of middle school and high school students to learn about issues surrounding early tobacco, alcohol, and substance abuse.
Research shows that children who experiment with tobacco, alcohol, and drugs before age fifteen are more likely to develop a dependency in the future. With today's powerful drugs, an adolescent can go from casual usages to a full-blown addiction in a very short period of time.
This is to give parents the tools they need to recognize the problems and to teach about the available resources on how to get help. |
| Kids and Drugs: What Parents Need To Know Part 2
The second video in our series designed specifically for parents of middle school and high school students to learn about issues surrounding early tobacco, alcohol, and substance abuse.
This is to give parents the tools they need to recognize the problems and to teach about the available resources on how to get help.
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Healthy Malden, Inc. is a unique public/private community coalition founded in 1993 by Hallmark Health System and the Mayor’s Office of the City of Malden. Healthy Malden's mission is carried out by conducting and maintaining a comprehensive assessment of the health status of the residents of Malden through data analysis and research survey tools; obtaining broad public consensus about Malden’s top priority health concerns; encouraging collaboration among public and private sector organizations, community groups, and residents to work together to address these concerns; and identifying and attracting new resources into Malden to help improve the health status of all residents.
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The strength of Healthy Malden is the collaborative efforts of Malden's diverse culture. With financial support from grants, and donations from businesses and individuals, Healthy Malden develops and sponsors educational and advocacy activities to successfully and effectively reach children, families, professionals and individuals with vital health information. The coalition also serves as a clearinghouse and resource center on programs and services available throughout the Malden community.
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