Parenting Programs

Oregon Partnership’s educational programs are grounded in evidence-based science and weave in community action and involvement to strengthen the prevention messaging.  This is especially notable in OP’s Parent Teaching Prevention program, where parents are trained to deliver prevention education lessons in their children’s elementary school.

Parents Teaching Prevention
This interactive program engages and trains parents, grandparents and other adult volunteers to deliver prevention education in kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms through an informed and consistent message.

Parents Teaching Prevention is designed to teach children at an early age how important it is to make healthy life choices. Children learn the consequences of alcohol and drug use and apply this knowledge as they enter middle and high school, when peer pressure is at its peak.

OP provides curriculum, technical assistance and student hand-outs for each session and educational materials to send home to parents to aid in opening communication with their child.

Parents and other adult volunteers gain knowledge and awareness about substance abuse and interactively share this with the children.  Teachers know that they are meeting the state's expectations in a valuable way that really makes a difference in the students' lives and well-being.

Parent Action Network 
This program assists parents of middle and high school age kids in forming parenting groups to discuss difficult issues and support one another in raising healthy teens.  Parent Networks are made up of the parents of kids who attend school, play sports or spend time together.  They are designed to be supportive and educational groups for parents.

Parent Networks:

• Educate themselves about the use of drugs and alcohol and other problem behavior by adolescents
• Support one another through the challenges and complexities of modern parenting
• Set common guidelines for their teens' behavior
• Help teens plan activities that follow the guidelines