LOCATION: ZOOM - Register on EVENTBRITE

DATE: THURSDAy, May 29th 2025, 12-1 pm

Brock Gjesdal, co-founder of the former Washington-based organization, Know Before We Grow, a 5th-12th grade youth education platform that taught students the physical mechanisms through which neurons develop and transfer electrical signals, and how these mechanisms are disrupted by substances such as alcohol and nicotine. Brock Brock is now a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM) and will continue to teach this curriculum to high school students while in Pittsburgh.

Brock has partnered with behavioral psychologists and physicians in the Pittsburgh area to create a brief, yet comprehensive presentation on scientifically studied risk and preventative factors of youth substance use that he will be presenting to parents across the country. Brock’s presentation specifically discusses multiple actionable steps you can take as a parent to reduce your child’s risk of substance use disorder development in both childhood and adulthood.