Frederick Maryland
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Press Release (Draft)
New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement Goes Public
After weeks of planning and anticipation, New Horizons Support Network, Inc’s Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, and long-time Board Member, Sue deVeer found themselves, on Thursday, September 12, at the display table they had been carefully preparing for weeks, set up and ready to welcome potentially interested students attending the Hood College Community Volunteer And Internship Fair.
The fair, specially designed to match students and local non-profit organizations for cooperative service activities, would enable them on this day, to carry out dual intentions: to publicly convey the message of their Truth Or Dare Movement to what they hoped would be enthusiastic attendees of the fair while more privately celebrating what their combined visionary perspectives had been conjuring up for the past six months or so.
Depicting the message they most wanted to convey that something big and bold was happening at New Horizons and all were invited, a display board surrounded by information handouts aided Anastasia and Sue in being able to summarily describe and tell the story of what New Horizons Truth or Dare Movement: Destination Capitol Hill intends and has in store for participants.
First they wanted to invite people to sign their “expanded” Pro-Truth Pledge that would officially engage willing signees to assert a steadfast commitment to making truth-telling an essential part of daily living while concurrently insisting that others do the same or face consequences, especially those in elected leadership positions.
Next they wanted to announce plans, already in motion, to carry their message by 2021 to Capitol Hill along with a variety of educational seminars focused on exploring questions New Horizons has identified as pertinent such as: Why tell the truth?, When do you tell the truth?, How do you tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?, When is it ok to not tell the truth?.
Finally New Horizons aspires to teach others the art of truth-telling and truth-listening in their signature interactive, personal and community development program, the Truth Or Dare GAME, originally established by New Horizons in Montgomery County in 1976!
Hood College has been identified as the location for New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement pilot program, intended to be the testing and developing site for a project that plans to expand next year to other campus communities. As New Horizons’ Truth Or Dare Movement gathers student momentum throughout the Washington, D.C. region, organizers are preparing for an advancement on Capitol Hill after next year’s presidential election campaigns have been put to bed with a newly elected or reelected inhabitant of 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue installed.
As it turned out the display board and handouts did what they were intended to do, serving as a mini-presentation for the main aspects of New Horizons ambitious Truth Or Dare Movement.
Explaining their timely topic, truth telling, became a hot item for discussions by Anastasia and Sue with the fair’s student attendees keeping them on their toes throughout the event as students asked questions and replied with enthusiastic comments of their own thinking. Even students who were not interested in volunteering or interning seemed eager to know more about the scope of the Pro-Truth Pledge and the Movement itself.
An added highlight of the day was the networking that also arose for Anastasia and Sue with representatives of other non-profit organizations, some of whom signed the pledge. And, of course, the hoped for outcome of the Truth Or Dare Movement project was realized for that day attracting some very talented student volunteers and interns who in the week following the fair are already beginning to join with New Horizons to begin creating an on-campus Pro-Truth Pledge signing campaign and a variety of events and seminars now being scheduled for the Fall and Spring semesters.
Mission accomplished!
The first step of New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement plan, Hood College as the initial pilot project, has now been launched!
For details and information, contact Anastasia at: cell -- 240.409.5347, email: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com.
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