Building Resilient Youth
Practical Tips for Helping your Teen Make Healthy Choices
A new Resource from Parent Action on Drugs. Building Resilient Youth: Practical Tips for Helping your Teen Make Healthy Choices.
Research shows that resilient youth are less likely to experience problems related to substance use, mental health, gang participation, gambling, gaming, or other potentially harmful or unhealthy behaviours, and have improved coping and decision-making skills. Accordingly, Parent Action on Drugs has developed the Building Resilient Youth brochure as an educational resource for parents of teens. Brochure content highlights the risk and protective factors that affect resilience, including personal, family, peer, school, and community aspects. The brochure provides parents with concrete ways to help teens deal with life’s stressors, avoid problems and become strong, responsible individuals.
If you would like to place an order for this resource, click here for a printable order form .
To email us for more information or to receive the order form as a word document, click pad@parentactionondrugs.org
Test your Alcohol I.Q.
The Process of Creating a New Resource
Parent Action on Drugs would like to acknowledge the assistance provided by the LCBO in producing this resource in English and French and promoting alcohol education and awareness in Ontario.
Last year, the LCBO approached PAD to discuss if there was something that we - in our work with parents, youth and communities - identified as a gap in alcohol education. The ability of the LCBO to support the resource design, translate the materials into French, print large quantities of the brochure and assist in the distribution was a tremendous asset and we responded with enthusiasm to their offer.
So began the process of developing the resource. First, we at PAD looked at narrowing the target audience. We know that many youth in Ontario drink alcohol, some frequently, and many drink in large enough quantities to qualify as “binge drinking”. And we know that many youth don’t drink at all or drink very little, and very rarely. Our audience of interest was those who choose to drink and their friends, although we hope the information and presentation is of interest to all teens – and to their parents and teachers and health promoters who support them. We know that the majority of high school students who drink are in grades 11 and 12, and have some experience with and knowledge of alcohol and its effects. We wanted a friendly, non-authoritarian tone, to invite the reader to the brochure and let them make their own way through it. And we wanted it to be evidence-based – on facts that are meant to inform, not scare.
We had two really terrific guides in the development of the resource: Anna Humphrey, Writer & Editor for Youth and Family www.annahumphrey.com and designer Dejana Erich www.erichdesign.com helped us put together a resource that is compelling in both language and format.
And of course we checked it all out with youth. Thanks to a great group of diverse, older students from Central Commerce Collegiate in Toronto we got an honest appraisal of the information and format and were able to make the changes they recommended. When they made comments like “I would share this with others” and “It feels non-judgemental, it doesn’t make us feel guilty”, we knew we were on the right track.
Also available in French.
* Shipping and Handling charges apply
If you would like to read more about the information in the brochure, click here.
To order a complimentary copy of the free parent resources by mail click here for a printable form or email us at pad@parentactionondrugs.org
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Hook up to Breast Cancer Prevention
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Hook up to Breast Cancer Prevention
Is a teenage girl you care about at risk for Breast Cancer in her future?
Evidence says - she could be.
To order the Hook up to Breast Cancer Prevention - Caring Women's Brochure, click here to email PAD to request one.
To open a pdf file of the Hook up to Breast Cancer Prevention - Caring Women's Brochure, click here to open.
To open a pdf file of the Hook up to Breast Cancer Prevention - Caring Women's Brochure in French, click here to open.
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TAKING CHARGE: Young Women, Alcohol, and Sexual Assault
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TAKING CHARGE: Young Women, Alcohol, and Sexual Assault
Parent Action on Drugs talked to over 200 young women about sexual assault and alcohol. Whether they had been sexually assaulted or not, most girls said they would not come forward because…
- They would feel ashamed and humiliated.
- They would feel that they let it happen.
- If they had said yes at any time, then the guy would not be responsible.
- Friends would cut them out.
- There could be reprisals from the boy.
- They would never be forgiven by their parents.
Based on the information from young women and professionals, this tool kit was developed for health professionals to support and inform young women. Available in English and French, the Tool Kit fits into a variety of settings and curriculum programs and contains four parts:
1. A Guide to the Taking Charge project in 4 sections:
- The Taking Charge Project: Rationale, Process, Key Findings and Frequently Asked Questions
- Responding to Disclosure
- Educational Activities
- Supporting Parental Involvement (parent information brochure included)
2. A CD of handouts and resources.
3. A poster to encourage young women to think about the subject and talk about it with peers and adults they trust.
4. Keychains with the logo to hang on backpacks, keys, or cell phones.
For an order form for the Taking Charge Guide and resources, click here, or click here to contact PAD for more information.
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Young Women, Alcohol & Sexual Assault: Why Mothers are the last to know
This brochure helps mothers understand the facts about alcohol and sexual assault in order to open up a discussion on the topic with their daughters.(aussi disponible en français)
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WHAT'S WITH WEED
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What's With Weed
The What’s With Weed Kit was developed from a two-year project aimed at reducing problematic marijuana use among youth in Ontario.
The kit includes:
- A Program Coordinator’s Guide: a manual which provides a step-by-step approach to recruiting and training senior students, and facilitating peer delivered workshops for junior groups. It includes activities, explanations, handouts and a CD of power point presentations for working with senior students in the recruitment process and peer leaders in the training and review process. It also introduces the Stages of Change model.
- What’s with Weed DVD with a series of interviews between a Youth Counsellor and five marijuana users or former users.
- Youth resource (matchbook) promoting the website www.whatswithweed.ca
- Parent resource (the Facts postcard on problem marijuana use).
- Marijuana Risks and Realities pamphlet with background information on marijuana and key education challenges for youth.
For an order form for the What's With Weed Guide and resources please email us at pad@parentactionondrugs.org or click here to contact PAD for more information.
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RISKY DRINKING
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Risky Drinking
§ Now Available: The Summary Report And Resource Kit
This Package contains information pertaining to the conference organization, implementation and evaluation, including:
- Flyers and conference applications
- Information packages given to the youth participants
- The detailed agenda and media release
- Biographies about each of the guest speakers
- Team work exercises
- Slide show print outs
- The Marketing to Youth survey and results
- The ads and key concepts created and drawn out by the participants
- The transcript for the play written to use theatre to deliver messages
- The zine group’s magazine
- The conference evaluation, results and lessons learned
- A CD rom includes: the power point presentations given David Jernigan PhD, Nancy Miller, Mike Farrel and Tim Keenlyside
- A DVD of the conference documenting the whole process including a showcase of the icebreakers, presentations from the guest speakers, and the creative process involved in developing the key messages. The DVD also features interviews with the youth delegates expressing their thoughts and opinions.
For an order form for the Summary Report, click here, or click here to contact PAD for more information.
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CURRICULUM RESOURCE PACKAGES
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ACTING RESPONSIBLY
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Acting Responsibly
§ Acting Responsibly A Supplementary Unit for Dramatic Arts with a focus on alcohol and other drug use and peer leadership
Parent Action on Drugs and Trinity Theatre worked together to apply our shared experiences with and commitment to peer leadership. Together we developed and tested a peer-based dramatic arts program that would create safer communities, increase responsible and respectful social interactions and decrease the problems caused by alcohol and other drug use among youth.
This supplementary unit was designed to support the Grades 10, 11 and 12 Dramatic Arts course profiles.
“[This experience] was a huge eye opener for many of us… we all realized how serious our actions are when we make a choice to drink or do drugs”
Nicole A.; drama student, Turner Fenton S.S.
“I liked the guide. I think the Acting Responsibly document supports a number of different ways of approaching this topic… I’m very excited to work with this program again. At this drama level the students are mature enough and the distance to Grade 9 is sufficient to make an impact.”
Roberta Belfry, Dramatic Arts teacher, George S. Henry Academy
Cost:
Acting Responsibly - $20.00
to download order form click here.
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PEERS AND PARTIES... PLUS
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Peers and Parties... Plus
§ Ontario Curriculum Support Resource For Grades 8 and 9 classrooms
FEATURING Skeletons in the Closet - a 25-minute video about the motives, risks and consequences of young teens and parties.
This teacher- friendly resource package explores the challenges that youth face related to their peers and parties, plus the many other influences and pressures they experience as they make the transition to high school. These challenges are explored in seven interactive and compelling activity-modules for a possible total of 360 minutes.
Each activity module includes:
- Objective and overview
- Teaching / learning strategies
- Summative response journal
- Assessment / evaluation
- Accommodations
- Planning notes
Appendices (black line masters) The package also contains extensive teacher, student and parent resources on Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana and other drugs.
The document is available in
- CD-ROM with cross-reference links between table of contents, teaching strategies and appendices (all pages can be printed right from the file)
- Hardcopy manual - 102 pages
- in a bound format for easy access and photocopying
- The Skeletons in the Closet video accompanies all orders.
Note: there is swearing in the video. Teacher may choose to prepare students for the incidences of swearing or use an edited (swearing removed) version.
Click here for an order form
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VIDEO PACKAGES
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FOR THE RECORD
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For the Record
The reality video of a grad party (PAD/ODAP)
In June 2000, a young filmmaker witnessed an incident
of alcohol poisoning at his "after-grad" party. The video replicates
the event as well as the confusion around how to respond appropriately.
The video and guide have been produced to help youth, and the people
who work with them, develop safety strategies to reduce their risks.
The guide will support the teacher/facilitator in examining some
key issues and lead youth in coming up with "safer partying" plans.
Cost: $25.00
(plus shipping and handling)
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