We've just got the next batch of posters up at various locations around Montezuma County. So keep an eye out for the new orange "Believe It" poster when you're out and around!
In other news, SCYC representatives recently attended a regional meeting of Four Corners organizations trying to use positive outreach messages in their communities. The training was headed up by Jeff Linkenbach, PhD, who is perhaps best known for the "Most of Us" campaign work he has done in Montana.
Linkenbach tries to get communities to focus on the positive, that is, what most of us are doing right, instead of what a few of us may be doing wrong. The goal isn't to ignore negative behavior, but to encourage positive behavior as a model, because, although it is true that most people in a community are usually behaving well, frequently the community perception is the opposite. If more community members know that most of us know where our kids go after school, or most of us enforce a curfew, then maybe even more of us will start doing those things.
