Creating drug-free schools and communities: A comprehensive approach
C. Lynn Fox and Shirley E. Forbing
This book is designed to guide professionals and community members through school-based ATOD prevention and intervention activities for adolescents who are, or are the children of, substance abusers. The authors demonstrate how schools, families, and communities can work together to establish a significant framework for prevention by organizing activities into five stages: assessing needs, planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Program designers need to recognize problems within the family unit: the complex dynamics of families of substance abusers, the coping strategies and survival roles of family members, the weaknesses in family relations, changes in family structure, child-rearing practices, economic realities, and lack of family cohesiveness. Road blocks to implementation include denial, lack of collaboration skills, and limited knowledge. Key elements to successful ATOD program outcomes include assessing needs through research, raising funds, enlisting the support of community resources, working directly with children, and involving parents. Schools and the community can help foster appropriate parenting skills through educational activities, such as parent support groups. The authors describe models of prevention and youth peer programs from across the U.S. that have been assessed as effective. An appendix lists resources and contact organizations.
HarperCollins Publishers College Division 1900 East Lake Avenue Glenview, IL 60256 (800) 782-2665 Fax: (800) 328-3443 (1992, 344 pp.; $37.50 + $3.50 p/h)
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