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Organize a Parent Meeting at your school

Organize a school-community Workshop

Bring awareness campaign materials into your school

Organize a Dry Grad

Start an After-School Activity that Attracts At-Risk Kids 

Get a Peer Helper Program Started

Get a Mentoring Program Started

Improve your school’s policies and practices on school climate and discipline

Parent Volunteers Can Organize a Parent Workshop

Volunteers can really help their school and other parents to prevent substance abuse by organizing meetings and workshops with the school and the community.

To help parent volunteers in this task, the Canadian Association for School Health has contributed a booklet that is full of practical advice, planning tips, sample agendas and checklists and more.

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Meetings and Workshops to Involve Parents in Health

A Planner’s Guide

(Canadian Association for School Health

Ten Strategies for involving Parents in Health Promotion (Canadian Association for School Health)

Barriers to Parent Involvement in Health Promotion
(Canadian Association for School Health)

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