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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
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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 37-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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Workshop
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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
7. 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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Workshop Agenda
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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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A Proven
Success! |
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
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NEW workshop and materials
for schools and
agencies!
