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Workshop
Materials
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Complete Workshop Leader's Kit $250 includes the
following items...
PowerPoint
Leader's Manual on a CD with Embedded Videos
Helping Children Avoid Alcohol and Other Drug
Abuse: The 10 Prevention Roles For Parents
Workshop Participant's Packet
The Positive Parent: Raising
Healthy, Happy and Successful Children, Birth through Adolescence
Power of Positive Parenting:
11 Guidelines for Raising Healthy and Confident
Children
To order the Complete Workshop Leader's Kit, click
here.
To order any of the
above publications individually, click
here or on image.
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 Many schools and community organizations now sponsor and
conduct programs that teach parents basic parenting skills and
effective parenting techniques. Some of these programs also
provide parents with information on how to help their children avoid
the use of alcohol and other drugs.
Most of these programs, however, focus totally on other parenting
challenges, and therefore miss an opportunity to help parents also
learn what they can do specifically to prevent their children from
turning to alcohol and other drugs.
The 35-year-old, Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC),
one of the nation's most productive parenting education groups, has
recently designed and tested a new workshop for schools and agencies
that provide parenting services that is designed to address this
situation.
Called, Adding Alcohol & Other Drug Prevention
Education to Parenting Programs, the new
workshop, which can be offered in any city or area, provides guidance
and materials to learn:
1. How to
incorporate authoritative alcohol and other drug abuse
education into existing parenting programs, and/or
2. How to
create your own low cost parenting education program about preventing
alcohol and other drug abuse.
You can
also purchase the workshop training materials yourself and
conduct it on your own. The training materials are indicated in the
left hand column.
 To explore
how to bring this highly practical, one day workshop to your area,
contact Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, the founder and executive director of
CICC, who developed and tested this workshop. He can be reached
at kalvy@ciccparenting.org or at 1 (800) 325-2422.
Dr.
Alvy, a clinical child psychologist, is a highly respected parenting
authority, author and professional consultant. He has authored
CICC's trio of national model parent effectiveness programs, Confident
Parenting, Effective Black Parenting and Los Ninos
Bien Educados.
He has
served as a Principal Investigator and Scientific Reviewer for such
federal agencies as the National Institutes on Drug Abuse and Mental
Health.
His latest
book is The
Positive Parent: Raising Happy, Healthy and Successful Children,
Birth through Adolescence.
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 The workshop begins by addressing
the important question about what is effective parenting in the 21st
century and provides a multi-faceted and useful definition, including
an overview of The Job of Parenting. This helps to place what parents
can do specifically to help their children stay drug-free within the
broader context of what it means to be an effective parent in
general.
Then the workshop provides detailed coverage of 10 specific roles
that parents can play in helping their children avoid the use of
alcohol and other drugs, and what they can do if their children are
already users. In addition, the workshop provides guidance on
how to use the Internet to locate and use valuable educational
materials for parents.
The Ten
Prevention Roles for Parents
1. Parents as role models
2. Parents as educators
3. Parents as family policymakers and rule setters
4. Parents as originators of and participants in healthy family
activities
5. Parents as consultants and educators about peer pressure
6. Parents as monitors of their children's whereabouts
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Parents as collaborators with other parents
8. Parents as identifiers and confronters
9. Parents as interveners
10. Parents as managers of their own feelings
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Here
is the agenda for the one-day workshop. It can also be taught as a
five-part workshop, one session per week.
9:00 -- 10:15 PART
ONE: Effective Parenting
National Movement
News Video
What is Effective Parenting?
The Job of Parenting
Productive Parenting Pattern
Resources
10:15 --10:25 Break
10:25 - 12:00 PART
TWO: Drug Abuse Prevention Roles for Parents
Generation Gap Video
Models
Educators
Rule Setters and Policymakers
Healthy Family Activity Initiators
Peer Pressure Consultants
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 -- 1:45 PART
THREE: More Drug Abuse Prevention Roles for Parents
Monitors and Supervisors
Partners with Other Parents
Identifiers and Confronters
Managers of Intoxicated Children
Managers of Own Feelings
1:45 - 1:55 Break
1:55 - 2:45 PART
FOUR: Internet Resources for Parents
Drug Information
Tips Newsletter
Finding Treatment Services
What is Your Parenting Style
1:55 - 2:45 PART
FIVE: Additional Resources and Workshop Evaluation
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The workshop available
through this announcement was successfully tested in cooperation
with the Orange County California Health Care Agency on January 12,
2009.
It was sponsored by the
county's Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team and its new
Parenting Initiative.
The Parenting Initiative aims to increase youth's capacity to resist
negative behaviors, especially alcohol and drug use through
strengthening parenting skills overall. Their Initiative
especially targets parents of children between the ages of
9-16.
The workshop was
attended by representatives from 45 local agencies, schools and
departments.
As a result, more parenting
programs in that community have incorporated alcohol and other drug
prevention education into what they provide for the families they
serve.
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