Goals and Objectives :: Goal B :: Home Involvement

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Parents and other family members are significant influences on young people's attitudes and behaviors, especially pre-teens. Parents can best be involved by becoming aware of the risk factors and protective factors relating to drugs and violence. For example:

• Setting fair and consistent rules governing their children's behaviors.
• Communicating and implementing positive and negative consequences for following and not following those rules.
• Modeling positive attitudes and behaviors.
• Taking an active interest in their children-in what they do, with whom they associate with, how they behave, and what they think and feel.
• Involving their children in their family activities.
• Instilling in their children positive core values.