"Our Mission.
Our mission is to provide a community-supported Youth enrichment education program committed and dedicated to engaging and informing youth, parents, schools, and community partners. Enrich MS is already making a substantial impact in our communities across the state towards prevention for a variety of issues affecting our youth today. We have a clear vision and specific strategies to greatly reduce vaping, educate on the dangers of substance abuse, suicide prevention, social media use, and a variety of youth-related issues.
School Programs.
Enrich MS has launched a program in Central MS for youth enrichment beginning with Vaping prevention. We also continually expand by offering programs on social media use and suicide prevention. We have a Peer to Peer Youth Leadership Team for high school and middle school kids. Enrich MS covers the entire state utilizing the best technology possible. To learn more about our youth leadership team click here...https://enrichms.org/youth-leadership-team
Speaking engagements and community outreach.
Enrich MS hosts small group and virtual events throughout our communities and have a panel of experts lead discussions on these topics to provide answers and resources. We invite parents, youth, and other community leaders to further our mission and provide evidence-based quality information. Our community and business partners are featured and invited to these events as well. Invite us to speak to your group so we can work on enriching the lives of the youth of Mississippi together."
Gordon discussed the extent of vaping among students. She said that youth start vaping as early as the 5th grade. She emphasized the dangers of vaping with the example of a young man who had a seizure as the result of inhaling harmful chemicals in the vapor of an e-cigarette he smoked. Vaping is addictive, particularly the nicotine in the e-cigarettes, and e-cigarettes can be used to deliver harmful drugs as happened with the young man. Vaping among youth is now an epidemic. Since 2010, vaping among students has increased by 1700% and it has doubled in the past year. In January 2021, Enrich MS will be presenting a Virtual Vaping Summit. The summit's purpose is to increase awareness and share resources that address the vaping epidemic.
We thank Gordon for her presentation and for her work to protect our youth. She is shown during her presentation in the following photo:
The recording of the club's meeting, including her presentation, is available at the following website https://vimeo.com/489023052.