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How to DRUG PROOF YOUR KIDS aims to equip parents with the strategies needed to more effectively steer their children away from the harmful use of drugs.
It enables you as parents to get together, hear each others stories, learn how to intervene, get help and protect your children as they approach their vulnerable teenage years. The programme consists of six sessions and is aimed at PARENTS of 8 – 14 year olds.
Both the programme and presentation will encourage you as parents that you are the most important influence in your children’s lives.
...what you say and do counts.
Parents
Parents Can Make a Significant Difference!
Extensive research shows that parents and families whanautanga can be a vital factor in keeping children from becoming involved with the harmful use of drugs, including alcohol.
We want to encourage you not to take your hands off your children during their teenage years but to stay involved and connected. So often we talk to parents while standing on the sports side line or at the school gate who are feeling overwhelmed at the possibility of drug and alcohol involvement during their children’s teenage years – some seemed to have resigned themselves to “This is the way it is, while others put their heads in the sand and say “This won’t affect my child”.
Better informed parents communicate more effectively, and a knowledge of available resources puts parents in a position to significantly reduce the risks.
The reality is: it will affect your child but you are the key influence in how your child responds.
"Parent power is the most effective and under utilised weapon in the battle against substance abuse."
Joseph A. Califano Jnr - Chairman of CASA
The National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University, New Yo
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The How to Drug Proof Your Kids® programme was created in response to the needs of parents. It is based on sound research that clearly indicates the importance of a healthy family environment, where high levels of parent connectedness can reduce the risk of harmful drug use by their children. Unfortunately, that is not to say our children will always make the right choices.
Can parents ‘drug proof’ their kids? No. This parenting programme is not merely a neatly packaged set of answers, nor does it naively tell young people to just say “no”. We do not believe there is any one simple solution towards addressing what has become a complex issue in our society. However, this programme does concentrate on the important role a parent or significant caregiver can play in reducing the risk of harmful drug use. It also equips parents to establish protective factors that will assist their children to make good choices.
With an emphasis on prevention this programme is designed to:
- Give parents a realistic overview of drug use in society and its related harm
- Provide parents with an understanding of protective factors and the role they play in helping to steer our kids clear of harmful drug use
- Help parents establish strategies that will strengthen their influence in areas such as their own wellbeing, communication, and responding to issues such as alcohol use
- Educate and empower parents with skills and strategies that will influence their children’s choices regarding the harmful use of drugs
- Encourage parents to examine their own beliefs, attitudes and behaviours regarding their own drug use and how conflicting messages can influence theirs children’s choices
- Provide parents with a sense of community-based support
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DPYK is:
A Parenting Programme
Aimed at parents of 8 to 14 year olds and based on world-best parenting practices.
Preventative
It helps parents prepare and equip their children to make wise, healthy choices during the adolescent years.
Evidence Based
Written in consultation with experts in the field and based on validated research.
Interactive
Connecting parents, building individual and community capacity.
Community Based
It is delivered in your community by local facilitators trained by Focus on the Family New Zealand.
Session Outlines
Session 1
- Our National Drug Policy
- Australian and New Zealand Statistics and What They Say
- Message from Parents and Media
Session 2
- Risk and Protective factors
- 3 Keys to Unlocking Happiness
Session 3
- Growing Independence
- Ways of Parenting
- Safe Drinking - Latest Guidelines & Research
Session 4
- Six Keys to Communication
- Problem Solving
Session 5
- Importance of Peers & Parents
- Building Strong Networks
Session 6 (family session with kids invited)
- Family Traditions and Rituals
- Building Positive Kids
- Making Plans for the Future
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Facilitators
What is a Facilitator?
A dedicated, passionate person who has completed the facilitator training for How to DRUG PROOF YOUR KIDS and is now registered as a DPYK facilitator for Focus on the Family New Zealand.
Our facilitators are the KEY to the success of this programme as these competent trained people take DPYK back and apply it to their local communities where they already have some form of relationship and connection.
The training takes 2 full days, for people who have the characteristics below and agree with the guiding principles of Focus on the Family New Zealand:
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. communication skills in presenting and listening
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| . warmth, genuineness and empathy |
| . openess and a willingness to share |
| . sensitivity to family and group processes |
| . dedication, care and concern for families |
| . flexibility, humour and credibility |
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| For more information about DPYK NZ, phone 0800 200 362 |
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