NCJ Number
139327
Date Published
1992
Length
31 pages
Annotation
This booklet features a number of ways in which community leaders can set and support policies that increase parents' effectiveness in teaching their children why and how to avoid using illegal substances.
Abstract
It outlines basic community policy and other community supports that can help parents in preventing their children from using and abusing drugs. The booklet suggests ways in which governmental legislative initiatives, tax policies, and spending priorities can help parents with their drug prevention tasks. It also describes how key local actors, such as police, local businesses, media, churches, hospitals, and schools can be supportive of parents' preventive efforts. It provides illustrations of how policies have been implemented and suggests novel approaches for communicating effective messages that can help prevent drug use. One of the novel suggestions is to enlist local grocers to print messages pertinent to effective parenting and drug prevention on the bags they provide customers. Another suggestion is for community organizations to work with local shopping malls in the display of parenting messages on ad boards or video displays. Also suggested is the enlistment of the local medical society to help place parent-oriented drug prevention brochures in clinic, hospital, and doctors' offices waiting rooms.