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Bringing up a drug-free generation: How communities can support parents National Crime Prevention Council This booklet describes simple, low-cost strategies to help parents and communities prevent their children from using alcohol and other drugs. It is based on ideas exchanged at a 1991 Parents' Forum co-sponsored by the National Crime Prevention Council and the Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education (PRIDE). It illustrates how parent peer groups can be a significant force in changing community attitudes and individual social behavior. It also shows how individual parents can be prevention catalysts if they are supported by influential officials and citizens in the community. A rationale and examples accompany each innovative idea describing how communities took action. The ideas vary from positive to negative actions. Legal measures such as enforcing under-age selling laws can send a message that ATOD use is not acceptable for young people. Community groups can provide program substitutes for drug or alcohol use - such as recreation. Schools can provide parent training and information to students and parents, organize before- and after-school programs, and work harder to make schools drug and alcohol free. Businesses can hold seminars and make drug and alcohol treatment services available to employees. Organizations can refrain from serving alcohol at events involving families. Support can come from government agencies, schools, businesses, the media, religious groups, veterans organizations, children's groups like the Boy Scouts, and other community organizations. Parent participation in conceiving the ideas, and planning and carrying them out, is key to prevention efforts.
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Disclaimer Free To Grow is a national program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. |