The Power of Parents - It's Your Influence

According to studies, parents are still the most important influence in a child’s life.  MADD knows that parents can influence the decisions of their kids when it comes to alcohol.  This is exactly why it is a priority for MADD to work and empower parents with this message.

This fall, MADD will launch workshops, a website, and handbook to help parents of high school student’s talk about underage drinking prevention.  The new program, sponsored by Nationwide Insurance, has an fall launch and includes three key elements:

• A new website that addresses warning signs for parents and provides answers to parents’ toughest questions.
  • Online forms to talk to other parents
  • Ask the Expert
  • Effective strategies in your community
• MADD’s Parent Handbook
  • Effective communication tools
  • Difference in parenting styles
  • Background on the dangers of underage drinking
• A community-based program that includes workshops for parents across the nation.  The scientifically proven method used by the program will reduce underage drinking by teaching parents how to deal with this difficult issue.

For more information regarding programs in your area, please email Yolonda Vaughn , Program Specialist at yolonda.vaughn@madd.orgor call 903-534-6000

                                                              

Your child might be too young to drink. Your child might even be too young to drive. But your child is still at risk. Drunk driving is one of the nation’s deadliest crimes – killing nearly 13,000 children, parents, grandparents, neighbors and friends every year. That’s why MADD has launched the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving – a bold program with the ambitious, but attainable goal of eliminating drunk driving once and for all. By mobilizing a network of affiliates, like-minded organizations and volunteers like you, we’re working to protect your children by taking the fight against drunk driving to an unprecedented level through:

1. High-visibility law enforcement, including sobriety checkpoints
2. Ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk drivers
3. Advanced vehicle technologies that will prevent drunk driving
4. Public support