Celebrating Red Ribbon Week!

ACE recognizes SAMHSA's Red Ribbon Week from Oct 23-31, 2008.

A way to show support is talking to tweens and teens about inhalant abuse. Here are some tips to organizing a discussion on Inhalant Abuse:

•Collaborate with one or more school clubs to organize the discussion
•Contact ACE and find out how they can help you.
•Invite an ACE representative to be present for questions before, during, and after discussion
•Invite a school counselor, school psychologist, or club advisor (s) to facilitate the discussion
•Think of an attractive title

•Publicize in advance and day of event
•Create an agenda with talking points:

–What is Inhalant Abuse? Signs and dangers of inhalant abuse?
–Are there resources? Yes! ACE IS A RESOURCE!!!
–Who is ACE? What services does ACE offer?
•Concluding activity: Brainstorm ideas to help prevent inhalant abuse in “our” community

Feel free to post on the message board or let ACE know the ways your community, business, organization, or you are celebrating Red Ribbon Week!!!

Latest edition of ACE Online available!!!

ACE Online is here!

ACE Online is a quarterly electronic newsletter sent out to keep you aware of ACE's activities in an around your community, and to give donors an in-depth look at what we were able to accomplish with their support.

To read the newsletter please click on the following link: Summer 2008.

Please note, this and all previous ACE Online newsletters are accessible by visiting www.ConsumerEd.org and going to the "Newsletter"section.

Sincerely,
The Alliance For Consumer Education (ACE)

ACE LAUNCHES NEW CONSUMER HEALTH RESOURCES IN TIME FOR COLD AND FLU SEASON

The Alliance for Consumer Education to Launch New Interactive Educational Resources For Parents and Families.

Washington, DC (October 6, 2008) - The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) today launched four new rooms on its interactive website http://www.stopgerms.org/ and at the same time, unveiled a 3-Dimensional version of StopGerms.org in Second Life, a virtual online community. The launch of ACE’s educational resources coincides with the start of the cold and flu season across the United States.

ACE’s StopGerms.org, is an award-winning website aimed at educating consumers on ways they can help keep their families healthy through proper hygiene practices within the home. Included in the new expansion to the popular interactive site are four new rooms: The Garage, Foyer, Study, and Living Room.

To read the full press release, please visit: http://mnr.onthescene.com/ace/consumer-health.html

New Way to Donate to ACE!!!

Recently, ACE has created a fundraising page on the Firstgiving website, which provides the foundation with another option for online donations.

With the Firstgiving fundraiser page, ACE supporters can donate as well as branch off and create their own page---attracting friends, families, coworkers and other networks in a way they know best--- to raise funds in support of ACE's educational programs. Through this page ACE will be able to expand our supporter network and share information of inhalant abuse programs. The fundraiser page will be open from now until 2010; fundraising efforts ending on the anniversary of ACE’s incorporation.

To help us reach our fundraising target, please visit www.firstgiving.com/allianceforconsumereducation1!

Many thanks,
Irnande Altema, ACE's fall intern