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Scene 1: A fluorescent-lit meeting room in the Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in Berlin. Five smart, confident high school students from around the state are playing a word association game. The word is "teenager." Their responses? "Drunk," "angry," "pain," "hostile," "Ninja Turtles," "cliques," "illegal," "drugs," "choice," "freedom," "bans," "sex" and "alcohol."
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Talking Cure? Vermont Teens Open Up for the Voices Project
Scene 1: A fluorescent-lit meeting room in the Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in Berlin. Five smart, confident high school students from around the state are playing a word association game. The word is "teenager." Their responses? "Drunk," "angry," "pain," "hostile," "Ninja Turtles," "cliques," "illegal," "drugs," "choice," "freedom," "bans," "sex" and "alcohol."
Scene 2: A common room in the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Colchester. A group of 14-to 18-year-old boys, all with histories of violent behavior, are talking about love. Asked how many have loving relationships with their families, only a few raise their hands. But one says, "I'll raise my hand high because I know I do," and adds that he loves his parents so much he's always hugging them. "Some people would think it's corny, but it's just something I do."Scene 3: The sunny, one-room schoolhouse of Champlain Valley Union High School's Life Program in Hinesburg. The students, all refugees from the high school mainstream, are a motley group -- among them a farm kid, a teen mother, a talented artist who's about to be a teen dad, and a jock with a Ji...See the full content of this document
