The Hollis Brookline High School PTSA’s mission is to provide that important link between school and home. Students perform better when parents are actively involved in their learning experience. We encourage you to join the PTSA and to attend its meetings and presentations. It is with the help of committed parents that the staff, teachers, and administration of HBHS can give our students the best High School education and experience possible.

The PTSA meets the second Thursday of each month 8:30AM in the HBHS Mini-cafe.

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Parent Education Series

Community Safe Driving Event

Community Action for Safe Teens (CAST) is sponsoring a Community Safe Driving Event on October 1st at the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley

Community Safe Driving Event
When: Saturday, October 1, 2011
Where: Souhegan Valley Boys & Girls Club parking lot; 56 Mont Vernon Street, Milford, NH
Time: 10AM - 12PM

Participants - NH Liquor Enforcement with Fatal Choices Demo

The goal of the Fatal Choices program is to reduce drinking and driving. The program allows participants to operate a simulated motor vehicle (Golf Cart) through a course while wearing a pair of Fatal Vision Goggles that simulate visual impairment at Blood Alcohol levels from .07 to .20+. The intent of the Fatal Chioices Porgram is to raise awareness by demonstrating the dangers associated with drinking and driving.

The Art of Encouragement

Date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Time: 7PM
Hollis Brookline High School

This year we will be focusing on the emotional development of our teens and the first program in our Parent Education Series, The Art of Encouragement will be presented by renowned speaker, Jack Agati on Tuesday, October 4th at the Hollis Brookline High School. The program will begin at 7pm.

Jack is a dynamic and informative presenter that will address the following:

How do we encourage a discouraged child? This often asked question must be answered if we hope to bring about long term changes in another’s way of behaving. We need to look upon encouragement as a skill, an art that needs to be understood and practiced to be successful. At the end of this session, the participants will be able to distinguish between praise and encouragement as motivational tools, identify the three techniques that others will use to discourage us from encouraging them, and explore ways to avoid becoming discouraged in our efforts to encourage others.

This session is sponsored by the Hollis Brookline PTSA and is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is requested. To pre-register, please call Monica Gallant at 672-6115.

Got Drugs? - National Take Back Initiative

Date: Saturday, October 29, 2011
Time: 10AM to 2PM
Place: Brookline Safety Complex @ 3 Post Office Square, Brookline NH or Hollis Police Department @ Silver Lake Road, Hollis NH

DEA has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to turn in your unused or expired medications on Saturday, October 29, 2011, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. to provide a venue for persons who want to dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs. Both the Brookline & Hollis Police Departments will be participating in this DEA TakeBack. Please visit www.justice.gov/dea for more information.

Taming The Beast Within! Anger Management for Ourselves and Our Children

Anger happens.

Unfortunately, very few of us recognize anger as it builds from annoyance to aggravation to frustration to rage like air filling a balloon.

"Taming The Beast Within" makes the experience of anger normal and natural even while it helps participants better understand how they do and how they could express their strong feelings.

Join us at the Hollis/Brookline High School for this interactive, engaging and provocative presentation, featuring internationally renowned speaker, researcher, winning freelance journalist and child psychologist, Dr. Ben Garber. The presentation will be held on Wednesday November 16 at 7pm. This workshop is free and open to the public, however, pre-registration is requested with Monica Gallant at 672-6115 or mgallant4@aol.com This is an HBHS PTSA sponsored event, visit www.hbhsptsa.org for more info.

Communication & Cooperation with Your Teen

Is communicating with your teen a bit overwhelming at times? Do you ever feel challenged by your teen? Do you find yourself caught in a negative cycle? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you won’t want to miss the January parent education session. This will be an interactive program facilitated by Lisa Landolt MSW, LICSW, of Family Centered Counseling of New England. We will be discussing negotiation and active problem solving strategies; methods of de-escalating conflict, as well as building and maintaining relationships with your teen(s). This program will be held on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7pm in room 221/222 of the Hollis Brookline High School. There will also be a follow-up session to this program in February. There is no cost to attend, however, pre-registration is requested. Please call Monica Gallant at 672-6115 or email mgallant4@aol.com to register.

Discipline Techniques with Your Teen

Do you find yourself caught in power struggles with your teen? Are you empowering your teen to think things through and make healthy choices? Are you looking for ways to engage in a win-win situation with your teen? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you won’t want to miss the February parent education session. This is the 2nd of a 2 part series of the interactive program facilitated by Lisa Landolt MSW, LICSW, of Family Centered Counseling of New England. We will be discussing discipline techniques with an emphasis on "the art of negotiation" along with active problem solving strategies; methods of de-escalating conflict, as well as building and maintaining relationships with your teen(s). This program will be held on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7pm in room 221/222 of the Hollis Brookline High School. There is no cost to attend, however, pre-registration is requested. Please call Monica Gallant at 672-6115 or email mgallant4@aol.com to register.