Evidence-Based Programs

Parenting Wisely

This program supports parents of children and adolescents in providing positive discipline and building a strong foundation of communication with their children.

• Young Children

    These skills are taught through viewing typical family problems   including:
  • Chidren interrupting conversations
  • Fighting and arguing between children
  • Getting children off to school
  • Trouble getting along with friends
  • Improving poor school performance
  • Getting children to bed at night
  • Obeying parent requests
  
  

• Adolescents

  These skills are taught through different problems including:
• Getting chores done
• Fighting between children
• Finishing homework
• Obeying requests
• Increasing trust
• Speaking respectfully
• Reducing nagging and threats
Parenting Wisely programs can be facilitated with individuals or groups.

Guiding Good Choices

The program consists of five two-hour workshops, usually held one evening each week for five consecutive weeks. Workshop topics are appropriate for a wide and diverse audience. Here's what each workshop covers:

1. Getting Started: How to Prevent Drug Use in Your Family
   Parents learn about the nature and extent of the drug problem among teenagers and decide for themselves how they want to prevent problems in their own families.




2. Setting guidelines: How to Develop Healthy Beliefs and Clear Standards
   Parents develop clear family guidelines and expectations for behavior.




3. Avoiding Trouble: How to Say No to Drugs
   Children and parents are invited to this session. They learn skills children can use for staying out of trouble and keeping their friends, while still having fun.
   
   

4. Managing Conflict: How to Control and Express Your AngerConstructively Parents learn to manage family conflict in a way that maintains and strengthens bonds with their children.
   
   

5. Involving Everyone: How to Strengthen Family Bonds
   Parents learn ways to strengthen family bonds and increase children's involvement in their family in their teen years. Parents also learn how to create a parent support network.

GGC, originally developed under the title Preparing for the Drug Free Years, is a five-session program that teaches parents of children, ages 9 - 14 (in general, grades 4-8) how to reduce the risk that their children will develop drug problems

There is clear evidence that the child-rearing practices, attitudes, values, and behaviors of parents influence whether or not their children will use drugs. This evidence underlines the importance of involving parents in prevention, and has guided the development of this program.

 

NREPP - SAMHSA's National Registry
of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.

 

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