Let's Face it For most families television, video games, and the internet are a part our lives. Yet studies find that the violence in the media can slow our children’s functioning and increase violent behaviors. How can we raise healthy children in a world filled with television and video game violence? Did you know . . . .

• American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping.

Durham, North Carolina — In celebration of National Mental Illness Awareness Week in Durham, a free screening of the documentary “Brushes With Life” is being shown at the Carolina Theatre on Sunday, October 11 at 3 pm. The event is being sponsored by NAMI Durham, The Partnership for a Healthy Durham, The Durham Center, and Duke University Health Center. This new 26 minute version was made for UNC-TV film and was written and directed by local film maker Philip Brubaker.

Out of the Darkness

5K Community Walk
Sunday, November 8, 2009
2:00 PM
Capitol Building, Raleigh, NC

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