Human Services 6/8

The Human Services Committee met tonight. Among the topics discussed:

1) Alcohol Awareness Week will be proclaimed at next week's Council meeting, but no significant activities will accompany the proclamation. Town staff simply didn't have the time to organize it... this late in the game, so to speak. It's anticipated that something significant will happen for "alcohol awareness" next April. One key would be organizing a survey of students, as was done with this survey(NH Register).

2) The Yellow House organized a highly successful laser tag tournament for Dodd kids. About 50 kids were expected, but 250 turned out. The Yellow House is planning lots of activities for the kids throughout the summer. Feel free to call town hall, or check out the town website for more information.

3) Cheshire had 20 domestic violence incidents in May... higher than usual. So I asked if we knew if that were "an increase in incidents" or "an increased in reporting of incidents." Wasn't able to get an answer on that one. That could be a dangerous trend.

4) There's been a surprising increase in requests for help from town social workers. (I don't recall the numbers.)

There were some other things discussed, but those were the items that really caught my attention.

Tim White
Human Services Committee liaison
TimWhite98@yahoo.com