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Parent Leaders Can Support Parent Effectiveness Training

Parent leaders, including those who are active in official and voluntary parent organizations can have a tremendous impact on school programs as well as in helping other parents. One of the most effective actions that leaders can take is to encourage other organizations to offer parent training programs where parents can develop general skills such as communicating with children or developing positive parenting practices. Note: These training programs are different tna workshops that focus on specific skills such as identifying drug problems or responding to drug-related situations or parent information meetings which raise awareness.

Check out the parent programs offered by a variety of Canadian organizations listed in the right hand column on this page.

The research on the effect of parent information and education programs suggests that such activities can have a positive impact on parenting behaviours, which in turn, can have a positive impact on substance use by young people.

-          Response of Parents to Parent Education and Support Programs: A Review of Evaluation Research on Some Key USA Programs (Australian Institute for family Studies)

-          Parenting is Prevention Workshop on Research (White House, United States)

-          Parent Education and Support Literature Review – 2005 (Univ of Delaware)

-          Parent Education – List of reports, articles and reviews (Australian Drug Foundation)

Also, if you have time, read through this List of Model Programs includes about 20 parent programs. These programs have been evaluated and could be adapted to Canadian situations. (SAMHSA)

 Families and Schools Together

(Family Services Canada)

Nobody’s Perfect

(Health Canada)

Ready or Not

(Health Canada)

Parent Effectiveness Training
(PEI Government)

Parent Effectiveness Training
(Dr. Thomas Gordon)

-          Skills for Parents (Newfoundland Health)

-          Parent Information Series
(AADAC Series of 15 pamphlets)

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