Parent and Family Resources

Substance Use

• A Parent’s Guide to the Prevention of Substance Use & Mental Health (PDF)
• Parent & Caregiver Drug and Alcohol Resources 
• A Parent's Guide to Vaping
• A Parent's Guide to Fentanyl
• Protecting Children from Online Drug Dealers
• Slang/Street Names for Drugs (PDF)
• After High School- Talking with Your Young Adult About Underaged Drinking (PDF)
• The DEA’s website for parents, www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.gov, provides valuable drug education information for parents and caregivers to further help identify drug use, drug paraphernalia, warning signs of drug use, and the harmful side effects of the most commonly abused drugs.

Mental Health

• Helping Children and Adolescents Respond to Traumatic Events
• Children and Mental Health: Is This Just a Stage? 
• How to Talk to Your Child About Mental Health

Social Media

• Social Media, Online Safety, and Youth Mental Health (PDF)
• Building Healthy Relationships with Media: Children 10 and Younger (PDF)
• Conversation Starters About Media: Tweens and Teens (PDF)
• Parent Social Media Guide Trifold (PDF)

Other Helpful Links 

• Help Kids Say No to Peer Pressure (PDF)
• Monmouth County Summer Safety Toolkit

Up and Away!

• Approximately 35,000 young children are brought to the emergency room each year because they got into medicines that were left within reach. Are all of your medicines kept somewhere safe?
• Visit upandaway.org for tips and resources on how to keep your kids, family, and medications safe!