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A Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free Web

A Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) site provides parents and other caring adults with resources to promote good mental health and to help reduce the risk of children using drugs. See Be a Better Listener video.

Too Smart to Start

For parents and their pre-teens, ages 9-13.  Too Smart to Start provides research-based strategies and materials to enhance communication between parents and children about the harms of underage alcohol use.

Talking with Kids about Tough Issues

Resources to help parents talk with their children about such tough issues as violence, HIV, alcohol, and drugs.

Time to Talk: Get Help Talking to Children about Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Time To Talk provides tools to help parents engage in an ongoing dialogue with their teens about living healthy lives free of alcohol and drugs. The Time to Talk Kit is a guide to starting the conversation, finding opportunities for talking and preparing for questions from your teen.

Time To Act: How to Tell If Your Teen is Using and Taking Action to Intervene

Helps parents spot signs and symptoms, have productive conversations with their teens, and find outside help if they need it.

Parenting is Prevention

Provides accurate information, support, and resources to assist parents and others in raising children to be healthy, drug-free, productive adults. ONDCP and SAMHSA sponsored site.

Building Blocks for a Healthy Future

Designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 3 to 6, Building Blocks will help you open up the lines of communication with young children—and make it easier to keep those lines of communication open as they grow older.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America

A site to help kids and teens reject substance abuse by influencing attitudes through persuasive information. Drug information. Sections for teens and parents/caregivers. Sign up for an email newsletter for parents/caregivers.
Drug-Free America's suggestion for books and movies to help you and your teen start talking - and connecting.

Parents - The Anti-Drug
Padres LaAntiDroga

Created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. Parent Resources. In English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese.

Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free

Underage drinking prevention focusing on children ages 9 to 15. Contains information for parents, links to prevention, research studies, resources, and a prevention guide, Keep Kids Alcohol Free: Strategies for Action

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown University

CAMY monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America's youth. Reducing high rates of underage alcohol consumption and the suffering caused by alcohol-related injuries and deaths among young people requires using the public health strategies of limiting the access to and the appeal of alcohol to underage persons.

Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention: The Parent Connection (The Higher Education Center)

Information for parents of college bound students to keep your students safe and healthy. Find out what schools are doing to curb alcohol and other drug use.

StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov

A comprehensive portal of Federal resources for information on underage drinking and ideas for combating this issue. People interested in underage drinking prevention—including parents, educators, community-based organizations, and youth—will find a wealth of valuable information here.

College Drinking Prevention

As a parent you are a primary influence in your college-aged son's or daughter's life. Fact sheets, links, brochures.

Building a Grand Relationship Help Keeps Youth Drug Free

America's grandparents are making a very important contribution to the lives of their grandchildren.
See also brochure, The Power of a Grandparent

NIDA Goes to School - Science-based Drug Abuse Education

Includes information for students and parents, and teaching resources for the classroom

Center for Media Literacy

A non-profit organization teaches the life skill of media literacy, and offers links to articles on media violence.

Your Time Their Future

A national public education campaign that urges adults to become involved in volunteering, mentoring, and other efforts that help young people participate in positive activities that build skills, self-discipline, and competence

Iowa Mentoring Partnership

IMP serves as an advocate of and resource for mentoring programs across the State. SeeDirectory of Iowa mentoring programs.

The Role of Parents in Preventing and Addressing Underage Drinking (SAMHSA)

Underage Drinking Prevention: Action Guide and Planner (CSAP)

Can I Borrow the Car? In Spanish brochure with tips for reducing the number of new-driver accidents

A Guide to Safe & Sober Event Planning - Guide to Safe and Sober Event Planning for teens and their parents

A Parenting Perspective: Children of Alcoholics - advice on raising a children in an alcoholic home setting

How To Be A Better Parent 16 pg booklet. Tips to help you keep your children from drugs and problem behaviors.

Keeping Youth Drug Free - 56 page guide for parents, grandparents, and other care givers, to assist them in their role of helping young people avoid substance abuse

Your Child Needs You! Guide To Help Your Child Lead a Drug-Free Life -Partnership for Drug-Free America

When it's not your Kid, How do you Deal with Drug Use and Drinking? an Anti-Drug brochure.

The Parent Chronicles Action Kit - Helps parents keep in touch with teen culture and be smarter about their teen’s world

Children are Hurt by Secondhand Smoke - U.S. Surgeon General Report

Eating Disorders (American Psychological Association) - description, causes, treatment

A Parents' Guide to Preventing Inhalant Abuse (Consumer Product Safety Commission) covers inhalant problem, effects, products abused, and prevention tips. As brochure. In Spanish.

Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters (NIMH) overview of children and trauma; description, treatment, research findings, and list of resources.

What Is Substance Abuse Treatment? A Booklet for Families this publication provides basic information to family members and friends about substance abuse treatment and recovery

The Importance of Family Dinners IV - CASA Columbia report includes survey findings on the relationship between family dinners and the reduced risk of teens smoking, drinking and using illegal drugs

Bullying Is Not a Fact of Life, Take Time To Talk About Bullying, Take Action Against Bullying. SAMHSA booklet

Bullying Prevention - information for parents of bullies and the bullied

Bullying, Cyberbullying, When Your Child Is a Bully, and Girls and Bullying - information from the National Crime Prevention Council

What Does Gay Mean? How to Talk with Kids about Sexual Orientation and Prejudice (NMHA) designed to improve understanding and respect for youth who are gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT).