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Resources for Parents: Articles and Printouts
- Tips for Parents – On talking to your teens about alcohol, and on how to help change the culture of alcohol within your family and community of parents
- 10 Tips for Parents to Help their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy – Parental strategies for how to handle communication and policies concerning your children and their sexuality
- Teens, Sex and Alcohol – How alcohol combines with sex in teen party culture to increase risks, and how parents can make a difference
- Teen and Sexual Risk Taking – What parents need to know to handle the potential of their teen making risky decisions about sexuality, and how parents can help to decrease that possibility
- Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships – Ideas and scripts to help parents to talk to their teens about what it takes to recognize, develop, and maintain a healthy relationship
- Talking with your Kids about Tough Issues – Good for parents of younger children as well, on how to develop ongoing conversations about tough issues including alcohol, drugs, sex and relationships, HIV/AIDS and violence
- 10 Building Blocks and 10 Road Blocks to Effective Communication – Very helpful chart of communication strategies and how they affect the parent/child relationship (with examples)
- Resources for Families on Parent-Child Communication about Sex - Provides a selected list of resources and materials to help parents begin talking with their children about sex
About Communication
Let's Talk
www.straightupvc.org/letstalk
Promoting open and healthy dialogue between parents and teens about tough issues such as underage drinking, sexuality, HIV/AIDS and the prevention of STDs.
Addiction 411: Teaching Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
www.addiction411.com/teaching-kids-about-drugs-and-alcohol
Helpful guide on opening dialog with your child about drug and alcohol use. Includes useful resources, guides and fact sheets.
Tandem Journey
www.tandemjourney.org
Helping parents with the tremendously difficult job of raising teens in a world that seems at times to be out of control.
Parenting Teens Online
www.parentingteensonline.com
The information resource for parents of teenagers - parenting tips and advice for teen problems and everyday life.
Words Can Work
www.wordscanwork.com
Helps young people, families and communities talk about the challenges kids face growing up.
Positive Parenting
www.positiveparenting.com
Dedicated to providing resources and information to help make parenting more rewarding, effective and fun.
Talking with Kids
www.talkingwithkids.org
These practical tips and techniques can help you talk easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some very tough topics.
About Alcohol and Drugs
Parents: The Anti-Drug
www.theantidrug.com
Created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids.
Time To Talk
www.timetotalk.org
Provides easy-to-use guides and tips to help you have ongoing conversations with your kids to keep them healthy and drug-free.
Start Talking Before They Start Drinking
www.family.samhsa.gov/stop/talk.aspx
What to know, what to say, what to do - A Family Guide includes alcohol facts and activities
Partnership at DrugFree.org
www.drugfree.org
The Partnership at Drugfree.org is here for parents, helping them prevent, intervene in or find treatment for drug and alcohol use by their children.
NIAAA - College Drinking Prevention
www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov
Important facts and resources for high school parents and college parents
FACE - Resources, Training & Action on Alcohol Issues
www.faceproject.org
Supporting sensible alcohol
policies and practices through the development of messages, strategies
and training designed to create public awareness and action on
alcohol issues.
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America - Resources
www.cadca.org
CADCA works to strengthen the capacity of community coalitions in their effort to create and maintain safe, healthy and drug-free communities. The resources page provides access to useful toolkits and primers.
Join Together - Advancing Effective Alcohol and Drug Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
www.jointogether.org
The nation's leading provider of information, strategic planning assistance, and leadership development for community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment.
The Marin Institute - An alcohol industry watchdog and a resource for solutions to community alcohol problems
www.marininstitute.org
The Marin Institute fights to protect the public from the impact of the alcohol industry’s negative practices. They monitor and expose the alcohol industry’s harmful actions related to products, promotions and social influence, and support communities in their efforts to reject these damaging activities.
About Sex
4 Parents
www.4parents.gov
You can help your son or daughter make healthy choices about sex. 4parents.gov can help you talk to your child, pre-teen, or teen early and often about healthy relationships, waiting to have sex, what happens as he or she grows, and other important topics.
Parents Sex Ed Center
www.advocatesforyouth.org/parents
This section of Advocates for Youth's web site contains all of the information and resources you need to begin talking with your children about sex.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
www.thenationalcampaign.org
Seeking to improve the lives and future prospects of children and families and, in particular, to help ensure that children are born into stable, two-parent families who are committed to and ready for the demanding task of raising the next generation.
SIECUS - Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
www.familiesaretalking.org
Providing education and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive health.
Sex Ed Mom
www.sexedmom.com
Advice, live monthly chats, teaching tips, and video clips for parents.
Campaign for Our Children
www.cfoc.org
A comprehensive, hands-on program to educate children, parents and the general public.
I Wanna Know
www.iwannaknow.org/parents/overview.html
A safe and fun place for teenagers to learn about sexual health and for parents to receive guidance.
Scarleteen
www.scarleteen.com/for_parents
Advice, articles, and information addressing sexuality and sexual health issues for children and parents.
Planned Parenthood
www.plannedparenthood.org
Delivering vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.
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