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Office of Safe and Healthy Students, US Department of Education, 2017
This guide offers information that can help parents raise drug-free children. Parents may read it from front to back like a book, or pick a topic from the Table of Contents and go directly to that page. This guide includes: (1) An overview of substance use among young people, with a special focus on how it affects academic performance; (2)…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Academic Achievement, Risk
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1986
This brochure is one of two publications designed to assist parents in guiding their preadolescents away from experimentation with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, while enhancing the parent-child relationship. It contains a broad overview of prevention. The book is divided into 10 sections. Each section provides suggestions and answers to a…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Parent Child Relationship
Bryant, Carol A.; McDermott, Robert J.; Zapata, Lauren B.; Forthofer, Melinda S.; Brown, Kelli McCormack; Cheney, Rebecca; Eaton, Danice K.; Calkins, Susan A.; Hogeboom, David L. – American Journal of Health Education, 2006
This study identified youth and adult perceptions of factors that influence initiation of youth drinking, access to alcohol, strategies for deterring youth drinking, and parents' role in prevention. A combination of qualitative (focus group and individual interview) and quantitative (written survey) community-based participatory research methods…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Drinking, Parent Influence, Attitude Measures
Chand, Krishan – 1993
The dropout problem in the United States is explored; and some suggestions for reducing the dropout rate are offered for parents, teachers, and principals. Several indicators have been recognized as placing a student at risk of dropping out of school. Dimensions of alienation have also been identified, as have social factors that contribute,…
Descriptors: Crime, Drinking, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts