Parent Workshops
Parenting: It’s tough. It’s important. Your kids need your best effort. Could you use some help?
Guiding Good Choices has helped more than 260,000 families since 1987. It works.
What is Guiding Good Choices?
Guiding Good Choices is a FREE five-part workshop (once per week for five weeks) for parents or caregivers of children ages 9 to 14.
The program seeks to promote healthy youth development and to prevent teen alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by helping parents gain skills to:
- Strengthen family bonds
- Establish and reinforce clear and consistent guidelines and expectations for behavior
- Teach children skills to resist peer pressure
- Improve family management practices
- Reduce family conflicts
Guiding Good Choices is based on research and has been PROVEN to:
- Improve parenting skills and parent-child interactions
- Reduce adolescent substance abuse
- Reduce adolescent depressive symptoms
- Reduce rates of self-harm by teen
What topics are covered in the workshops?
Session 1 Getting Started: How to Prevent Drug Abuse in Your Family
Session 2 Setting Guidelines: How to Develop Healthy Beliefs and Clear Standards
Session 3 Avoiding Trouble: How to Say No (children attend this session with their parents.)
Session 4 Managing Conflict: How to Control and Express Anger
Session 5 Involving Everyone: How to Strengthen Family Bonds
In research studies, children of participants had:
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- 40% lower rates of alcohol and marijuana use
- 54% less progression to more serious substance abuse
- 26% greater likelihood of remaining drug free if not already using drugs
- 38% lower rates of self-harm
- 28% fewer feelings of worthlessness
