Wearing a couple of liquor hindrance recreation goggles, Robert Morris, 15, wobbled while attempting to remain on one leg as Sgt. Jennifer Hayes, of the Aiken Department of Public Safety, led a field balance test.
"It was somewhat befuddling," Morris said. "It felt like I was bleary eyed."
In another part of the Teen Life Maze at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center on Tuesday, Morris' 18-year-old sibling, Daniel, nestled a RealCare Baby newborn child test system.
"This is relentless," Daniel said. "I need to have a tyke in the long run, yet not presently. I have a feeling that I have to get myself together before I bring another life into this world."
Assistance collaborated with the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and different offices to set up the Teen Life Maze, which was a progression of intelligent encounters. The nine stops incorporated a sexually transmitted ailment center, a burial service and court.
One reason for the labyrinth was to demonstrate the results of underage drinking, unprotected sex and other hazardous practices.
"I got an infant, I had HIV and I went to imprison for inability to pay kid bolster," said Matteo Sherrod, a 20-year-old Aiken Technical College understudy. "I got the short end of the stick by and large. I'm certainly going to settle on better decisions."
Remaining adjacent to a casket,Scott Ayers, of George Funeral Home and Cremation Center, discussed passings brought on by messaging and driving, inebriated driving and overdoses.
"Very frequently we'll get a call from a family that has lost a friend or family member who is 15, 16 or 17 years of age," he said. "No guardians ought to ever need to lose a tyke, particularly at that age."
Subsequent to listening to Ayers, A'Nya Walker, 17, said, "will be more cognizant about what I do."
Data about solid connections and individual wellbeing likewise was offered in the labyrinth.
"We would not like to have a customary old sit while developed individuals talk kind workshop," said Kandace Cave, chief of group programming for Helping Hands. "We needed to do it in a way that the children would recollect."
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More than 100 center school, secondary school and undergrads joined to go out for a stroll through the labyrinth. Toward the end, each got a testament.
The members additionally got the opportunity to eat pizza, win prizes, play computer games and go to a gathering.
"We need to engage our youngsters with the aptitudes and the capacity to settle on the best choices for their fates," Cave said.
The understudies' moms, fathers and gatekeepers could go to a Parent Power session drove by Kevin Banks of Aiken Youth Empowerment, which is a Helping Hands program, and Beth DeHart, of the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
"They're talking about immature advancement, hazard taking and the high school cerebrum and how it functions," Cave said. "We need to ensure that guardians have the information they need discussions about adoration, sex, connections and great basic leadership with their children."
Dede Biles is a general task correspondent for the Aiken Standard and has been with the daily paper since January 2013. A local of Concord, N.C, she moved on from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"It was somewhat befuddling," Morris said. "It felt like I was bleary eyed."
In another part of the Teen Life Maze at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center on Tuesday, Morris' 18-year-old sibling, Daniel, nestled a RealCare Baby newborn child test system.
"This is relentless," Daniel said. "I need to have a tyke in the long run, yet not presently. I have a feeling that I have to get myself together before I bring another life into this world."
Assistance collaborated with the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and different offices to set up the Teen Life Maze, which was a progression of intelligent encounters. The nine stops incorporated a sexually transmitted ailment center, a burial service and court.
One reason for the labyrinth was to demonstrate the results of underage drinking, unprotected sex and other hazardous practices.
"I got an infant, I had HIV and I went to imprison for inability to pay kid bolster," said Matteo Sherrod, a 20-year-old Aiken Technical College understudy. "I got the short end of the stick by and large. I'm certainly going to settle on better decisions."
Remaining adjacent to a casket,Scott Ayers, of George Funeral Home and Cremation Center, discussed passings brought on by messaging and driving, inebriated driving and overdoses.
"Very frequently we'll get a call from a family that has lost a friend or family member who is 15, 16 or 17 years of age," he said. "No guardians ought to ever need to lose a tyke, particularly at that age."
Subsequent to listening to Ayers, A'Nya Walker, 17, said, "will be more cognizant about what I do."
Data about solid connections and individual wellbeing likewise was offered in the labyrinth.
"We would not like to have a customary old sit while developed individuals talk kind workshop," said Kandace Cave, chief of group programming for Helping Hands. "We needed to do it in a way that the children would recollect."
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More than 100 center school, secondary school and undergrads joined to go out for a stroll through the labyrinth. Toward the end, each got a testament.
The members additionally got the opportunity to eat pizza, win prizes, play computer games and go to a gathering.
"We need to engage our youngsters with the aptitudes and the capacity to settle on the best choices for their fates," Cave said.
The understudies' moms, fathers and gatekeepers could go to a Parent Power session drove by Kevin Banks of Aiken Youth Empowerment, which is a Helping Hands program, and Beth DeHart, of the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
"They're talking about immature advancement, hazard taking and the high school cerebrum and how it functions," Cave said. "We need to ensure that guardians have the information they need discussions about adoration, sex, connections and great basic leadership with their children."
Dede Biles is a general task correspondent for the Aiken Standard and has been with the daily paper since January 2013. A local of Concord, N.C, she moved on from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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