good and bad

I'm moving forward with my parent program at our middle school here in town.  All the roadblocks I was up against at the high school are non-existent at the middle school.  Now I know that there was a reason for these obstacles at the high school - because..........it's the parents at the middle school who REALLY need to know about teen substance usage because this is when it starts.  I will admit.....I am VERY, VERY pleased with how the program is turning out.  My part is done (except for any changes I need to do) and now I'm waiting for feedback from the drug counselor who is going to present it.  This counselor is the BEST and teaches parents for a living.  She teaches at two rehab facilities - inpatient and outpatient on a regular basis.  Obviously, the program she has is geared for parents of kids in treatment.  The audience at the middle school, obviously, is different.  Since their interest level is much, much lower than parents who have kids who are addicted, I had to make this program as interesting as possible.  And I believe it is.  It includes an eye pleasing PowerPoint with photos which I am told is awesome.  The rest I have a tech guy to fill in the music, DVD clips, and voice-overs.  I also have parent participation.  The first part includes the 3 stages of addiction.  At each stage I'll have a % of parents stand to symbolize the # of teens who experiment, use and abuse, and then ones who become addicted.  Later I will have the "addicted" parents stand again at the stigma stage and place signs around their necks that SHOUT stigma, such as:  disgrace, bad, embarrassing, etc.  I want the parent to "feel" what it is like and then explain that with these attitudes, it's difficult to move forward.  There is, obviously, more in between but -- at the end of the presentation -- I will have the same parents stand but flip the signs around with positive words saying with education we can be more "understanding, loving, caring," ....etc because we dispelled the stigma.   The bad.....well.....later....