BUTLER TWP The nonprofit group Candle will host its biennial Regional Drug Trends Forum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 6 at Butler County Community College.

The event will be the third forum Candle has hosted to tell people of drug trends and related crime activity, according to a news release from the group.

Candle issues a drug trends index report based on information gathered at the event.

A parent to parent program from 7 to 9 p.m. will include Jeff Williams, a Cleveland police officer, and Phil Bauer, who each lost a son to drug abuse.

Williams lost his son, Kyle, to inhalant use, while Bauer lost his son, Mark, to prescription drug abuse after an injury, according to the release.

Candle, a six-year-old agency based in Butler, has received national acclaim for its Reality Tour drug prevention program, which has been replicated across Pennsylvania since 2004.

To register for the forum, visit www.candleinc.org on the Web, or call Norma J. Norris, the executive director of Candle, at 724-679-1788.

Here are the scheduled sessions for that day:

n Direction for Prevention in Pennsylvania Garrison Gladfelter, director of the Division of Prevention, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs, state Department of Health

Drug Courts Karen Blackburn, administrator of the state Supreme Court Problem-Solving Courts Program

Gang Activity in the state Elaine Surma, senior supervisory narcotic agent, state attorney general's office

n The Adolescent Brain and Prescription Drug Abuse Margaret Modro, UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute

n Prescription Drug Peril, A Father's Story Phil Bauer, ACCESS Family Advocacy for Addiction Treatment

n Inhalants ¿ The Hidden Drug Jeff Williams, Cleveland police officer

n The Reality Tour, Parent/Child Foundation of Prevention Norma Norris, Reality Tour executive director

Gladfelter, Bauer and Williams will repeat their presentations for the "Parent to Parent" session.