The Partnership for A Healthy Iowa’s Executive Director, Peter Komendowski, talks about all the things affecting kids these days and how to create positive experiences. Watch the video!
Read more →The Partnership’s Executive Director, Peter Komendowski, will be presenting at The Chronicles of Substance Abuse: The Addition, the Secret, and the Solution: April 23, 2019 6:30pm – 8:00pm Forest City, IA To get details and reserve your spot, download the event flyer (PDF).
Read more →The Partnership for a Healthy Iowa is co-sponsoring a town hall: April 15, 2019 6:30pm – 8:00pm Sioux City, IA This informative event is free and open to the public. This is an opportunity for the community, both youth and adult, to share their thoughts on these
Read more →This article originally appeared on April 5, 2019 on kcrg.com by Phil Reed. Friday is the second legislative funnel deadline. It’s the final day for all non-budget bills to make it out of one chamber and a committee. Otherwise those bills die. One bill to make it
Read more →This article first appeared in the Clinton Herald on March 26, 2019. April 1: “Digital Responsibilities; What Families Need to Know.” The speaker will be Peter Komendowski, president of The Partnership for a Healthy Iowa and co-director of the Iowa Digital Literacy Project. He is one of
Read more →This article was originally published by The Washington Post on March 13, 2019 by Laurie McGinley. The Food and Drug Administration issued a much-anticipated policy on Wednesday that is designed to restrict how and where flavored e-cigarettes are sold — an effort to combat what the agency’s
Read more →This article first appeared in Medical Xpress on March 25, 2019 by Carla K. Johnson. Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot’s bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room. Inhaled marijuana caused the most severe problems at one large
Read more →This article was originally published by SocialMediaToday on March 21, 2019 by Andrew Hutchinson. As social networks have increasingly become vehicles for the spread of misinformation and fake news, one thing has become abundantly clear – digital literacy is a problem, and a great many people don’t
Read more →This article was originally published on app.com by Jerry Carino on March 22, 2019. The weed bill doesn’t do enough to help law enforcement police stoned driving. Taxpayers will be left covering the tab. It’s buried deep in the document, on page 170 out of 176. Then,
Read more →This article originally appeared on February 23, 2019 in Forbes by Nicole Fisher. When talking about drug abuse and drug-related death in the U.S., most conversations and statistics do not include alcohol… In fact, alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of death in the United States,
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