How To Drug Proof Your Kids

– a program of "Focus on the Family"


Strategy Brief

How to drug proof your kids is a community-based program that equips parents with tools and strategies, enabling them to strengthen their families and more effectively steer their children away from the harmful use of drugs.

How to Drug Proof Your Kids consists of six two-hour sessions

1. Drug Use! How Bad Is IT?
• Current statistics
• Drugs in our community
• The drug-proof plan
• What parents can do
2. Why Kids Take Drugs
• Factors leading to drug and alcohol misuse
• The path to drug misuse
• Your child’s environment
• Know your child better
3. Good Choices: Educating Kids
• Drugs and misuse: the facts
• Why kids use drugs
• Critical strategies for parents
• The parent’s action plan
4. Prevention Tools
• Identifying drug misuse
• Parental prevention tools
• Parents’ attitudes toward their kids
• Parents’ reactions to drug use
5. Learning To Intervene
• The intervention process
• Strategies for intervention communication
• Helping kids respond to peer pressure
• When a parent needs professional help
6. How To Handle Relapses
• Relapse threats and indicators
• Surviving relapse as a parent
• Relapse protection plan
• Motivating others to drug proof their kids

For more information logo onto: www.drugproofyourkids.ca

To attend the "How TO Drug Proof Your Kids" program, click on the link below to register.
A SAGA representative will contact you with information regarding program date, time and location.

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