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Needham Take Back The Night

Monday, January 28, 2013

Norfolk DA Learns about Needham High School Drug and Decision Programs

RADD, SALSA, Own your Piece/Peace and Take Back the Night among programs on upcoming episode of DA program.

[Update: According to an e-mail from the DA, the episode, "Empowering Teens" will air on the Needham Channel starting Feb. 7. Jan. 29, 11 a.m.] Coming soon to the local access channel: three Needham students.  The Norfolk County District Attorney filmed an episode of his program "Making Choices" at Needham High School's video lab, featuring a trio of Needham Students working with programs at the school. These programs include The Own your Peace/Piece Coalition, Take Back the Night, RADD (Rockets against Destructive Decisions) and SALSA (Students advocating for life without substance abuse).  Michael Morrissey, the Norfolk County DA interviewed students Alli Rubin of RADD and SALSA, Leah Siegal of Take Back the Night and Sam Moller of Own …

Friday, November 30, 2012

Needham Takes Back the Night

Exhibit and collection boxes installed in Needham in support of the sixth annual Take Back the Night event, which is Saturday.

  For six years now, a number of Needham residents have been working to Take Back the Night. The sixth annual Take Back the Night event will be at Needham Town Hall on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. The event aims to raise awareness of dating and domestic abuse, and sexual abuse, and will have two speakers who will talk about their experiences. Town Hall is displaying the Silent Witness project, red silhouette statues of victims of domestic violence during the days leading up to the event. The event will also feature entertainment by Fermata Nowhere, Subway Dwarves, Treble Rebels, Charles Winston, Jon Higgins and Sam Evans and Erica Serano, according to the event's Facebook page.  Needham Domestic Violence Awareness Committee (DVAC) announced …

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