| Parents play a huge role in their children's lives. What they tell their children, and more importantly what they SHOW their children, significantly influences the choices and decisions that kids make. |
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Staying Connected With Your Teen
This program teaches parents and teens the skills they need to improve family communication and family bonding. It draws on extensive research that demonstrates the critical importance of parent involvement in reducing or inhibiting adolescent participation in antisocial behaviors.
This series of workshops will be announced on gicct.org in the new year. |
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notMYkid, a national non-profit organization, is devoted to educating individuals and communities about behavioral health issues facing our teens today, believing that through education we can achieve prevention.
www.notMYkid.org |
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DEA Launches New Educational Website for Parents: www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com
GetSmartAboutDrugs.com was developed as a resource for parents and caregivers to help them identify drug abuse, prevent children from using drugs, and find resources for substance abuse prevention in an informative, non-technical manner. |
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The website was introduced February 11 at the annual National Leadership Forum of one of DEA’s partner organizations, the Community Anti-Drugs Coalition of America. Speaking to forum participants, Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said, “In this fight, information is power, and DEA’s new website has current, accurate, and practical information about how to spot signs of abuse, identify drugs and paraphernalia, and how to talk to teens about drugs.” GetSmartAboutDrugs.com is a follow-up to DEA’s highly popular site for teens, www.JustThinkTwice.com |
|  Prescription Drug Abuse & Addiction
Prescription drug abuse has become an epidemic. Many people have become addicted to prescription drugs because they are so readily available. Furthermore, the media have recently uncovered the popularity of perscription drug abuse among celebrities.
Prescription drug abuse can and has becom Read More |
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