Preparing For The Drug Free Years

Shows parents what children should know about drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, at each age level. Special section on specific drugs and their effects, including alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, inhalants, cocaine, other stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, narcotics, designer drugs, and anabolic steroids. Contents: teaching values; getting the facts; talking with and listening to your child; communication tips; teaching your child to say No; what to do if your child is using drugs; school-parent cooperation; parent support groups, and more. Photos and children's art.

Years of program development and research have provided effective strategies for strengthening America's families to prevent delinquency. This guide has been written to help program planners, policy makers, and service providers determine the most effective family-focused and parenting intervention strategies for high-risk youth and families. It reviews what is known about the impact of family characteristics on the risk for delinquency as well as promising family interventions. Providers using the guide will be better able to choose or modify existing programs or create new interventions for high-risk youth.

Includes: Drug Abuse Prevention through Family Based Interventions: Future Research; Familial Factors and Substance Abuse: Implications for Prevention; Family-Focused Substance Abuse (SA) Prevention: What Has Been Learned from Other Fields; Scientific Findings from Family Prevention Intervention Research; A Universal Intervention for the Prevention of SA: Preparing for the Drug-Free Years; Selective Prevention Interventions: The Strengthening Families Program; Parental Monitoring and the Prevention of Problem Behavior: A Conceptual and Empirical Reformulation; and Family Measures in SA Prevention Research.

Summarizes knowledge about the characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, and practices of certain audiences of children who are at a higher risk for drug and alcohol abuse. Also discusses channels, sources, materials and messages and offers ideas for reaching these groups. Chapters cover the general category of youth from high-risk environments, looking specifically at Black and Hispanic/Latino children, and influences on them such as parents and primary care physicians. Includes case studies, messages and materials review process, and intermediary organizations.