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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 or Support Dry Grads

Volunteers can really help their school and other parents to prevent substance abuse by organizing or supporting “dry” graduation ceremonies in their schools.

Here are several web sites with tips and resources on making student graduation partieis and ceremonies safe.

-                    Organizing a dry grad
(Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission)

 

-                    Safegrad.
(Health Canada)

 

-                    Ten Grad Tips for Parents
(Alcohol and Drug Education Service

 

-                    Ten Grad Tips for Students
(Alcohol and Drug Education Service)

Safegrad.
(Health Canada)
 

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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