A Dissemination & Train the Leaders Program by Parents, for Parents
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Drugs and Teen Use What Schools Can Do What Parents Can Do What Parent Volunteers Can Do What Parent Leaders Can Do |
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Organize a Parent Meeting at your school
Organize a school-community Workshop
Bring awareness campaign materials into your school
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
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Parent Volunteers Can Support Mentoring Programs
Parents can become involved in prevention through their school in a number of ways. This page describes mentoring programs where school staff, others adults or older students mentor young people These programs can benefit from parent support and involvement. Getting a mentoring program started in your school would be a great way to prevent or reduce substance abuse.
Speak with your principal, then together see if you can identify a teacher who would be willing to help. Then approach some of the associations and resources below for advice on how to get started.
Canada has two great national associations who act as resources for peer and student leadership programs, including the Peer Resource Network(Mentoring) and Mentor Canada.
The research on the impact of peer programs on substance abuse has been described in international reviews and papers such as Research on Mentoring (Mentor Canada), School-based Intergenerational Programs (UNESCO) and Mentoring-A Proven Delinquency Prevention Strategy (US Department of Justice)
For tips on the steps involved in setting up a mentoring program, take a look at these tips published by the National Mentoring Center in the United States.
If your school is looking for a description on how to get started and how to implement mentoring programs effectively, take a look at these resources below: - United Generations (Ontario) - National Mentoring Center (US) - Volunteer mentoring (University of Alberta) - Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training and Utilizing Volunteers (SAMHSA) |
(Peer Resource Network)
(Based in Montreal)
(Based at the University of Alberta)
Youth Engagement Through Schools (Canadian Association for School Health)
Mentoring Programs (Canadian Association for School Health)
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