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April 2006
As part of the Helping America's Youth initiative, Mrs. Laura Bush visits the Preferred Family Healthcare Adolescent Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center, and talks with 18 year-old Dalton Fox about the progress of her recovery from substance abuse addiction on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, in St. Louis, Mo. PFH specializes in individual customer care, by focusing on strengthening individual skills, attitudes, and behaviors that maximizes the opportunity for each person to achieve and maintain recovery.
As part of the Helping America's Youth initiative, Mrs. Laura Bush visits the Preferred Family Healthcare Adolescent Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center, and talks with 18 year-old Dalton Fox about the progress of her recovery from substance abuse addiction on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, in St. Louis, Mo. PFH specializes in individual customer care, by focusing on strengthening individual skills, attitudes, and behaviors that maximizes the opportunity for each person to achieve and maintain recovery.
Mrs. Laura Bush enjoys a moment with Sal Tinajero Thursday, April 6, 2006, recipient of Hispanic Magazine's Teacher of the Year award in the Diplomatic Room at the White House. Along with being a World History teacher, Mr. Tinajero resurrected the Speech and Debate team at Fullerton Union High School in Santa Ana, California. Mrs. Laura Bush poses for a photo with Sal Tinajero, his wife Jennifer and son Salvador, Thursday, April 6, 2006, in the Diplomatic Room at the White House. Mr. Tinajero, a high school teacher in Santa Ana, CA, is the recipient of Hispanic Magazine's Teacher of the Year award, which recognizes him as a single outstanding educator within the Hispanic community by means of motivating, inspiring and preparing his students for a promising future.
As part of the Helping America's Youth initiative, Mrs. Laura Bush visits the Preferred Family Healthcare Adolescent Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center, and talks with 18 year-old Dalton Fox about the progress of her recovery from substance abuse addiction on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, in St. Louis, Mo. PFH specializes in individual customer care, by focusing on strengthening individual skills, attitudes, and behaviors that maximizes the opportunity for each person to achieve and maintain recovery. Mrs. Laura Bush listens to Kasey Harlin, Lead Therapist at Preferred Family Healthcare Adolescent Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center in St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, April 4, 2006, discuss the benefits that art therapy has had on her clients at the center.
Mrs. Laura Bush flanked by students and Family teachers is presented the Father Flanagan Award during a visit to the Father Flanagan's Girls & Boys Town in Omaha, NE, Monday, April 3, 2006. Mrs. Laura Bush shares in laughter with girls who are living in a family-style residential group home at Father Flanagan's Girls & Boys Town in Omaha, NE, Monday, April 3, 2006. Girls and Boys Town was founded in 1917 to help troubled boys. Today there are more than 100 long-term, residential-care homes for trouble youths, featuring family-style living in the least restrictive environment.
Mrs. Laura Bush visits with high school girls who are living in a family-style residential group home at Father Flanagan's Girls & Boys Town in Omaha, NE, Monday, April 3, 2006. The program applies a behavior treatment model for delinquent youths ages 10-18 that emphasizes positive relationships, teaching skills, self control, while supporting moral and spiritual development and promoting self-government and self-determination. Mrs. Laura Bush sits with Mrs. Jessica Maes's second grade class at Bel Air Elementary School in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, April 3, 2006, during a lesson called Protecting You/Protecting Me, to teach the prevention of substance and alcohol abuse. Protecting You/Protecting Me is a curriculum developed and supported by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for children in grades 1-5, focusing on the effects of alcohol on the developing brain during the first 21 years of life.
Mrs. Laura Bush listens to students during a visit to Bel Air Elementary School in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, April 3, 2006, during a lesson called Protecting You/Protecting Me, to teach the prevention of substance and alcohol abuse. Protecting You/Protecting Me is a curriculum developed and supported by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for children in grades 1-5, focusing on the effects of alcohol on the developing brain during the first 21 years of life. Flowers bloom as the Spring season gets underway at the White House, April 3, 2006.
Decorated eggs that are being presented at the White House Visitor Center in Washington, DC, Thursday, April 6, 2006, as part of the State Egg Display which exhibits a decorated egg from a select artist of each state. This tradition has been going on since 1994, and each year the artists vote amongst themselves to select the artist to create the following years commemorative egg which is presented to the President and First Lady. Mrs. Laura Bush, flanked by Mark Sanders, GM of Marriott Hotels, Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, announces a $20 million dollar grant to the National Urban League in New Orleans, La., Monday, April 10, 2006, for their Youth Empowerment program to help at-risk youth find stable employment, as part of the Helping America's Youth initiative.
Gayle Dodson, Docent Coordinator, Left, and Dealey Herndon, Restoration/Historian greet Laura Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, and Mrs. Barbara Bush, Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at the beginning of their tour of George W. Bush Childhood Home in Midland, Texas. Mrs. Laura Bush poses for a photo next to the State Egg Display which exhibits a decorated egg from a select artist of each state Thursday, April 6, 2006, at the White House Visitor Center. This tradition has been going on since 1994, and each year the artists vote amongst themselves to select the artist to create the following year's commemorative egg which is presented to the President and First Lady.
Mrs. Laura Bush listens to Jeremy Greathouse, an unemployed New Orleans youth, and LaToya Dorsha Williams, an Urban League participant, about difficulties of life experiences and employment during a discussion with the National Urban League in New Orleans, La., Monday, April 10, 2006. Urban League affiliate sites are providing youth care-focused employability skills, paid internships, and on-the job training to help participants enter full-time, private sector employment.

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