[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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                               TOUGHLOVE

 Mr. DURENBERGER. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the 
Toughlove Parent Support Groups of Minnesota. This entire month of 
February is being observed as Toughlove Programs Against Violence 
Month. And it is important that we take time this month to pay tribute 
to the work of this organization.
  Toughlove is a self-help organization dedicated to helping families 
in crisis as a result of children who are in trouble in school, at 
home, and in their communities.
  Many of these young people have problems with drugs and/or alcohol, 
their sexuality, suicide, gangs, cults, and the expanding violence in 
and around their lives.
  Toughlove Parent Support Groups have been active in Minnesota for 8 
years. Their work heightened our awareness of the importance of 
communities joining together to combat the virus of violence that has 
become an epidemic in our Nation.
  Toughlove declared February 14, Valentine's Day, 1994 as a day 
against violence. Mr. President, let us continue to make every day of 
1994 a day when we, as a nation, promise to oppose violence, and make 
every effort to end violence in the places we live and work.

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