Summary - Resource List for Keep Your Kids Drug Free

Summary - Recap

By reading Keeping Youth Drug Free and taking the suggested action steps, you are helping to ensure your children reach their fullest potential and grow up happy, healthy, and drug free.  Here is a quick recap of the things you can do to help your child resist alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.

Establish and maintain good communication with your child. Talk with your children about alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs and listen to their pressures and problems. Teach your child the health, safety, and legal consequences of using alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. If you’re not sure what they are, look for information starting on page 17 of this guide, or call the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at 1-800-729-6686 (TDD 1-800-487-4889) to request information on specific drugs or other literature (online at www.samhsa.gov). You also may contact the resources listed on the following pages.  

Get involved in your child’s life. Get to know her individuality.  Work with her strengths. Accept a child’s unique talents and personality.  Provide love, support, and encouragement to the child in your life.

Make clear rules and enforce them with consistency and appropriate consequences. Be clear and consistent in your expectations, rules, and messages.

Be a positive role model. Do not engage in any illegal, unhealthy, or dangerous drug use practices. Provide an example consistent with what you say.

Teach your child to choose friends wisely. Practice ways for him to refuse drugs with methods that fit his personality.

Monitor your child’s activities. Ask questions about what he’s doing, with whom, for how long, and where. Get to know the friends he spends time with and the other parents, as well. Be sure children have easy access to a wide range of appealing, drug- free, alternative activities and safe, monitored areas where they can gather, especially during after-school hours.

¹CASA, National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse VIII:  Teens and Parents, 2003.

²SAMHSA, Adolescent Self-Reported Behaviors and Their Association With Marijuana Use, September 1998.

³Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Partnership Attitude Tracking Study, 2003.

⁴Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Issue Brief: The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity, 2004.

⁵Mulhall, P.F., D. Stone, and B. Stone. (1996). Home Alone: Is It a Risk Factor for Middle School Youth and Drug

Use? Journal of Drug Education, 26(1), pp. 39–48.

Federal Resources

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

P.O. Box 2345Rockville, MD 20847-2345 800-729-6686 800-487-4889 (TDD) 301-468-7394 (Fax)

http://ncadi.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA’s Building Blocks for a Healthy Future

http://bblocks.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

http://prevention.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA’s A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free

http://family.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA’s ¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!

http://www.soyunica.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Intervention Network

P.O. Box 6003Rockville, MD 20849-6003 800-458-5231 301-562-1098 888-282-7681 (Fax) 301-562-1050 (Fax)

http://www.cdcnpin.org

Tobacco Information and Prevention Source at CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco

Administration for Children and Families’ National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

330 C Street, SW. Washington, DC 20447 800-394-3366 703-385-7565 703-385-3206 (Fax)

http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov

Office of Minority Health Resource Center

P.O. Box 37337Washington, DC 20013-7337 800-444-6472 301-230-7199 (TDD) 301-251-2160 (FAX)

http://www.omhrc.gov

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)

P.O. Box 6000Rockville, MD 20849-6000 800-666-3332 301-519-5212 (Fax)

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov

ONDCP’s Parents: The Anti-Drug

http://www.theantidrug.com

ONDCP’s Freevibe

http://www.freevibe.com

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s Strengthening America’s Families

http://www.strengtheningfamilies.org/

Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network

612-626-1111

http://www.cyfernet.org

Private-Sector Resources

 

African American Parents for Drug Prevention

311 Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45219 513-475-5359 513-281-1645 (FAX)

Al-Anon/Alateen Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

1600 Corporate Landing Parkway Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617 757-563-1600 (general information) 888-425-2666 (meeting information) 757-563-1666 (Fax)

http://www.al-anon.alateen.org

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

475 Riverside Drive 11th Floor New York, NY 10115-0002 212-870-3400

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Boy Scouts of America National Council

P.O. Box 152079 Irving, TX 75015-2079 972-580-2000

http://www.scouting.org

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

1230 West Peachtree Street, NW. Atlanta, GA 30309 404-487-5700

http://www.bgca.org

Camp Fire USA

4601 Madison Avenue Kansas City, MO 64112-1278 816-756-1950 816-756-0258

http://www.campfire.org

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

625 Slaters Lane, Suite 300 Alexandria, VA 22314-1536 800-54-CADCA (542-2322) 703-706-0560 703-706-0565 (Fax)

http://www.cadca.org

Girl Scouts of America

420 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018-2798 800-478-7248 212-852-8000

http://www.girlscouts.org

Girls Incorporated®

120 Wall Street New York, NY 10005-3902 800-374-4475 212-509-2000  

http://www.girlsinc.org

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

511 East John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 700 Irving, TX 75062 800-GET-MADD 217-744-6233 972-869-2206/07 (Fax)

http://www.madd.org

Nar-Anon Family Groups

22527 Crenshaw Boulevard, Suite 200B Torrance, CA 90505 310-547-5800

Narcotics Anonymous World Services

P.O. Box 9999Van Nuys, CA 91409 818-773-9999 818-700-0700 (Fax)

http://www.na.org

National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse, Inc.

340 East Second Street, Suite 409 Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-625-5795 213-625-5796 (Fax)

http://www.napafasa.org

National Association for Children of Alcoholics

11426 Rockville Pike, Suite 100 Rockville, MD 20852 888-554-COAS (554-2627) 301-468-0985 301-468-0967 (Fax)

http://www.nacoa.org

National Black Child Development Institute

1101 15th Street, NW., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 202-833-2220 202-833-8222 (Fax)

http://www.nbcdi.org

National Alliance for Hispanic Health

1501 16th Street, NW. Washington, DC 20036 202-387-5000

http://www.hispanichealth.org

National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

P.O. Box 6508, Mail Stop F800Aurora,CO 80045-0508 303-724-1414 303-724-1474 (Fax)

http://www.uchsc.edu/ai/ncaianmhr/index.htm

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.

20 Exchange Place, Suite 2902 New York, NY 10005 212-269-7797 212-269-7510 (Fax)

http://www.ncadd.org

National Crime Prevention Council

1000 Connecticut Avenue, NW 13th Floor Washington, DC 20036 202-466-6272 202-296-1356 (Fax)

http://www.ncpc.org

National PTA Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Project

330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2100 Chicago, IL 60611-3690 800-307-4782 312-670-6782 312-670-6783 (Fax)

http://www.pta.org

PRIDE Youth Programs

4684 South Evergreen Newaygo, MI 49337 800-668-9277 231-652-2461 (Fax)

http://www.prideyouthprograms.org/index.shtml

Partnership for a Drug-Free America

405 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10174 212-922-1560 212-922-1570 (Fax)

http://www.drugfreeamerica.org

Students Against Destructive Decisions

P.O. Box 800Marlborough, MA 01752 877-SADD-INC (723-3462) 508-481-5759 (Fax)

http://www.saddonline.com

YMCA of the USA

101 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606-7386 312-977-0031

http://www.ymca.net

YWCA of the USA

1015 18th Street, NW., Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20063 800-YWCA-US1 (9922-871) 202-467-0801 202-467-0802 (FAX)

http://www.ywca.org

This list of resources is not intended to be exhaustive; inclusion as a resource in no way is intended to represent an endorsement of a non-Federal organization or Web site by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), its Agencies, or its subdivisions. Further, HHS does not endorse the views or warrant the content of any non-Federal Web site that may be referenced in this volume.