You are the Most Influential Person in Your Child's Life
You are the Most Influential Person in Your Child's Life. Research consistently shows that parents/caregivers have the most significant influence on a child's behavior. Parents/Caregivers are the primary role models, shaping development through actions, words, and interactions. Please view and click the links below for support in caring for your children through prevention and recovery.
General Parent Support:
- Talk. They Hear You: Why Small Conversations Make a Big Impression
- Talk. They Hear You: Age-Appropriate Conversations About Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Every Conversation Counts
- Cada Conversación Cuenta
- Start A Conversation: 10 Questions Teens Ask About Drugs and Health
- Para iniciar la conversación: 10 preguntas que los adolescentes hacen sobre las drogas y la salud
- Answering Your Child's Tough Questions
- Kids have questions. Do you have the answers?
- How to Prevent Your Child from Drinking or Using Other Drugs
- How to Help Kids Say No to Peer Pressure
- Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention
- How to Encourage Your Child to Get Help for Their Substance Use or Addiction
- What Are the Signs of Having a Problem With Drugs?
- If You Discover Your Child is Using Drugs: Start Talking.
- 11 Life Skills That Can Help Your Child in Recovery
- Teach Your Teen to Stand Up to Peer Pressure
Alcohol Related Support:
- How to Tell If Your Child Is Drinking Alcohol or Using Other Drugs
- Fall Semester—A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
- Semestre de otoño, momento para que los padres hablen sobre de los riesgos del consumo de alcohol en la universidad
- Talk With Your High School Grads About Celebrating Safely
- Padres: hablen con sus hijos sobre cómo celebrar su grado de secundaria de forma segura
- Parenting To Prevent Childhood Alcohol Use
- Crianza de los hijos para prevenir el consumo infantil de alcohol
- Prevent Underage Drinking - Toolkit for Parents & Caregivers
- Prevenga el consumo de alcohol entre menores de edad: kit de herramientas para padres y cuidadores
- Underage Drinking: How To Talk With Your Child About Alcohol Use
- Impaired Driving: Talk with Your Kids
Nicotine Related Support:
- Parental Monitoring: Adolescents experience less health risks when their parents know about what is going on with them and their lives.
- Prevent Youth Vape Use - Toolkit for Parents & Caregivers
- Prevenga el uso de cigarrillos electrónicos en jóvenes: kit de herramientas para padres y cuidadores
- E-Cigarette Use among Youth
- Talk to Kids About the Risks of Vaping
- Hable con los niños sobre los riesgos de vapear
- Teens and Vaping
- Non-Nicotine E-Cigarettes for Parents
Marijuana Related Support:
- Johnny's Ambassadors: Saving our Youth from the Harms of THC
- In the Weeds: The Cost of Believing the Cannabis Hype
- Cannabis Fact Sheet
- Prevent Youth Marijuana Use - Toolkit for Parents & Caregivers
- Prevenir el consumo de marihuana entre jóvenes: kit de herramientas para padres y cuidadores
- Edible Marijuana Dangers: How Parents Can Prevent THC Poisoning
- Cannabis: THC, Delta-8, and other Cannabinoids
- Cannabis: THC, Delta-8 y otros Cannabinoides
- Get Smart About Drugs: Marijuana
- New Report Advises Parents about Teen Marijuana Use
Prescription Drug Related Support:
- Drug Guide for Parents & Guía Informativa de las Drogas para los Padres (English and Spanish)
- Counterfeit Pills: Wyatt's Story
- One Pill Can Kill
- Medication Assisted Treatment
- Teens and Prescription Drugs: What You Should Know
- Get Smart About Drugs: Rx Drugs and others
- Does Your Family Know the Risks of Misusing Opioids?
- Preventing Opioid Misuse Among High School Student-Athletes
