Resources For Parents
We know you have a lot on your plate. That is why our programs provide support for families, so we can take some weight off your shoulders.
Introducing Our Second Family Box
We recently released the second Family Box for Substance Abuse Prevention, designed for families with children in 5th through 12th grade. Each Family Box contains materials to promote open and supportive conversation around substance abuse. Learn more by visiting our Family Box Store today.
The LSIS Family Box For Grades 5-12
We recently released the second Family Box for Substance Abuse Prevention, designed for families with children in 5th through 12th grade. Each Family Box contains materials to promote open and supportive conversation around substance abuse. Learn more by visiting our Family Box Store today.
As surprising as it might sound, building resilience and competence around substance abuse starts in kindergarten. With age appropriate approaches and content, our programming uses puppets to tell relatable stories. We can deliver this program through a licensed professional in the classroom or through digital media. Through this program, we lay the groundwork for good decision-making that will keep your children safer now and to help build the skills they need as tweens and teenagers.
Here’s the first of our 6-video series about medicine safety.
For Your 6-12th Grade Student
While digital content has extended our reach and made our programs more accessible, we engage with students and families in many different ways.
Our most impactful prevention programming is still the prevention speaker, where people who are in long-term recovery go into schools and share their experiences with students. Nothing beats the credibility of someone’s personal story when it comes to reaching students, engaging them and answering their questions. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have added virtual presentations to our offering.
If your children’s school hasn’t offered such programming and you would like them to, feel free to reach out to their guidance counselor or principal. You may also contact us and let us know about your interest. We work directly with schools, not only by bringing our programming to them, but working with the school to tailor our offering to their needs.
Opioids
As part of our new digital content library, the six video Opioids series gives the viewer a solid background on opioids, separating myths from facts and illustrating clearly and bluntly what opioid addiction does to the human body.
Far from suggesting that parents use this to lecture their adolescent kids, we found that it is far more effective to watch the video with them and follow up with a conversation that might begin with a few questions about what they already know, and their personal views about drugs and alcohol.
Give them room to share and trust that they already have a pretty good idea about the good and bad, the ins and outs of substance abuse. Plus, your candor might make it easier for them to open up. Often it is fear of judgment that prevents them from discussing their questions and experiences.
Hidden in Plain Sight
Hidden in Plain Sight is our most successful parent-directed program. In this presentation, we set up a mock teenage bedroom and share with you all the ingenious and creative ways (some) teenagers hide drugs and alcohol in their rooms, right under the eyes and noses of their parents.
Before the pandemic, it was always delivered in a live setting, but in light of new constraints, we have now made the program available as a virtual presentation. Contact us to find out about upcoming events, or reach out to your kids’ school. And if there’s no event scheduled near you, and you know of enough parents who would want to join you, let us know. You could even offer to host the program.
We also want to be very clear: the idea is not that you take your newfound knowledge and insight and go tear apart your kid’s bedroom. Nothing will shut down the lines of communication faster than accusations and fear of punishment and shame. Instead, by being able to better recognize what might be going on with your child, you gain an opportunity to start a conversation.
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