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First meeting of the year will be:

Tuesday, September 13th from 9-10am in room A15

Longmeadow Public Schools, 535 Bliss Rd (the School Committee Room).

School Resource Officer Pam Chaplin plans to attend this meeting. We will listen to parent concerns, questions and ideas about how to further this work. This meeting is open to all. Subsequent meetings are for members only.

Please let Shelly Warren know if you would like to be included in the email group.

swarren@longmeadow.k12.ma.us

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About the Safe Homes Network

The Longmeadow Safe Homes Network is a group of Longmeadow families committed to providing safe, healthy homes for our. youth. We provide a way for parents and other adults to agree on expectations for our teens and their environments, to promise to maintain those expectations and to communicate that fact to other families in the community. How? Three steps:

1 - join as a group to set standards of behavior

2 - pledge to uphold the standards in our homes

3 - be listed in a directory shared with other Safe Homes members

To join the network, please submit the pledge form electronically or send a printed hard copy to Shelly Warren at Longmeadow High School. An electronic copy of the directory will be emailed to all the member families. You can follow us on facebook without becoming a pledging member.

All Longmeadow parents and guardians are invited to become involved with our organization. For more information, or to become involved, please contact Shelly Warren, Substance Use Response Coordinator at the high school.

The Pledge

The pledge is not a contract, but a promise to actively maintain the agreed upon standards by supervising all gatherings of children on our properties, to communicate the expectations and consequences for children’s behavior, and to never allow the possession of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs by anyone under 21 years of age in our homes. We're not asking adults to abstain; we're asking you to prevent the use of alcohol and other substances by under aged visitors to your home. If you are over 21, we encourage you to be a good role model and practice low risk use regarding alcohol. Children of all ages are influenced more by the actions of the adults in their lives than by their instructions.

Longmeadow Safe Homes Pledge:

I will actively supervise all gatherings of youth in our home or on our property.

I will not allow the possession or use of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs by youth in our home or on our property.

I will provide a secure storage place for all forms of alcohol, marijuana and other potentially hazardous items.

I will welcome phone calls from concerned parents or guardians about a gathering in our home or on our property. I know the pledge is not a binding contract, but rather a parental pledge to my family and my community.

The Directory

With the Longmeadow Safe Homes Network Directory, you can check to see if the home your child is visiting is a Safe Home. If the home is not listed, the directory provides an outline of important questions to ask adults who will be responsible for your child’s welfare. Taking these precautions does not make you a nosy parent – it makes you a loving one.

To maintain some level of privacy, the Directory will not be published on line. Rather we will email the directory to all parents and guardians of children in the middle schools and the high school.

The Pledge Form

Link to the Safe Homes Pledge

If you would like to add your home to the Longmeadow Safe Homes Network, please use the above link to submit a pledge or send a completed copy to: download and complete the Pledge Form and send it to:

Longmeadow Safe Homes Network

c/o Shelly Warren

Longmeadow High School

95 Grassy Gutter Rd.

Longmeadow, Ma 01106

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