LOL Prevention Coalition Webinar Opportunities:

Please join FCD Prevention Works
for an upcoming two-part webinar series
https://fcd.org/
 Conversation Starters:
How to Have Prevention
Conversations with Kids

Data from the FCD Student Attitudes and Behavior Survey shows that students who talk about substances with the adults in their lives are less likely to drink alcohol than students who don't have such conversations. Initiating prevention conversations is one of the most effective ways a trusted adult can promote health in a student's life.
 
Getting these conversations started can be daunting. Join us for these upcoming webinars to learn how to begin prevention discussions with children and adolescents.
 
Webinar 1: For Faculty and Other School Staff
 
Elementary students may come to school already filled with early messages about alcohol and other drugs. Middle and high students are looking to adults to help them build an understanding of how substances can impact their growing bodies, and to help them navigate the pressures of development as they make the health-based choice to use or not use. Knowing how to address these topics and start prevention conversations with students is essential, during all ages and stages of development.
 
In this webinar, join two experienced FCD Prevention Specialists as we explore:

• How students at every age tend to think about health, staying healthy, and alcohol and other drugs
• Key substance misuse prevention and health promotion topics ready for school discussions with your students
• Age-appropriate ways to engage students in health-based conversations just for them
• How to build teachable moments and turn conversations into learning opportunities
• Ways to encourage healthy habits in your students as a follow up to any "drug talk"
• Approaches adults can use within prevention conversations to help you hear and be heard by your students.

Participants in this webinar will learn what they can do to engage in useful conversations with their students to help build a climate of prevention in their school communities.  
 
 Webinar 2: For Parents and Other Family Members
We all want to keep healthy kids healthy! To do so, parents, caretakers, and other family members can all play a role when it comes to the prevention of teen alcohol and other drug misuse. From an early age and onward, health promotion at home requires that parents and caretakers be informed and ready to be active in everyday prevention opportunities in the family. Knowing how to start the prevention conversation with your children at all ages is important.

In this webinar, join two experienced FCD Prevention Specialists as we explore:

• How kids tend to think about health, staying healthy, and alcohol and other drugs as they grow
• Key alcohol and other drug use prevention topics ready for discussion with your kids at home
• Age-appropriate ways to engage kids in health-based conversations just for them
• How to build teachable moments and turn conversations into learning opportunities
• Ways to encourage healthy lifestyle habits in your kids to reinforce the prevention conversations you have as a family
• Approaches parents can use in prevention conversations to hear and be heard by your kids.

During this webinar, parents and families will learn what they can do to engage in useful prevention conversations with their children in ways that research shows really make a difference.  

When?
 
Webinar One:
For Faculty and Other School Staff  
Friday, November 20, 2020
1:00 - 2:00 pm EST /10:00 - 11:00 am PST
Click here to register. 
   
Webinar Two:
For Parents and Other Family Members  
Friday December 4, 2020  
  1:00 - 2:00 pm EST /10:00 - 11:00 am PST
Click here to register. 
  
Cost is Free!