PARENTS AS RESOURCES TRAINING

This highly regarded training empowers the building of an informed and educated network of parents. This network serves as key resources for the entire school community to help prevent alcohol and other drug use or behavioral problems and to promote positive development in our young people.

In these highly interactive group training sessions, parents receive education with both skill-building and skills practice regarding communication and networking around commonly encountered scenarios by parents. Through training, parents learn how to network with others in their school communities to provide mutual support and sharing -  a positive factor for young people. Among the topics that these training sessions cover are:

• The physiological and emotional impacts of alcohol and other drugs on the child, the family, and the community.
• Recognizing, understanding the implications of, avoiding, and overcoming "denial" and "enabling".
• How to talk about alcohol and other drugs with students and parents.
• How to identify risk factors and understand the importance of reducing them.
• How to improve communication with adolescent children.
• How to work as a prevention team with students, staff, and parents.
• How to establish a parent support network.
• Awareness and effective use of resources and programs available for prevention, intervention, treatment, after-care, and family support.

Through this training, parents develop a toolkit of important skills and resources to take back to their school community. As a result, they have the strengthened capacity to form networks of mutual support, leading to an empowered parent, school, and community body.