Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don't be a party to teenage drinking. Parents be aware. Learn the health and safety risks of serving alcohol at teen parties and the legal consequences of doing so.
- Resources to Help You Quit Smoking
- ABC News Quit to Live: Follow a four-step plan to quit smoking.
- Grand Ledge YES Center: A great place for youth to find activities, build and leadership capabilitiesall in their own community.
- Michigan Meth Watch Program: Get the facts about this destructive drug and learn how you can help efforts in your community to stop its prevalence.
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Clandestine Laboratory Register: Contains addresses of locations where law enforcement agencies reported they found chemicals or other items that indicated the presence of either clandestine drug laboratories or dumpsites.
Just Think Twice: A great place for teens to get the real facts about drugs and ask their questions online.
- STOMP, which stands for Supporting Teen Opportunities Mentoring Program, is a community-based mentoring program for teens in Eaton County. Teens ages 13-19 can be matched with an adult mentor to who can be a positive support in their lives and help them achieve their goals.
- SAMSHA Recovery Month: A comprehensive site that promotes the societal benefits of treatment for substance use and mental disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment providers, and
promotes the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. - A Parent’s Guide to the Teen Brain: New discoveries about adolescent brain development provide insights about teens and risky behaviors as well as new ideas and tips on what parents can say and do when talking with their teens about the risks of drugs and alcohol.
- Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD): A peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, teen violence, and teen suicide.
FACE: Provides Resources, training and tools to reduce alcohol misuse and abuse.
- Above the Influence: A site for teens featuring accurate information about substance abuse, how to help friends, and a place to share one’s voice with other teens.
- Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking (MCRUD): Provides leadership on state and national issues and assists individuals, grassroots groups, and organizations to reduce underage drinking locally.
- AlcoholEdu for Parents of High School Students: A 15 minute course that provides parents with tips and strategies for helping their teens make healthy decisions about alcohol.
- Safe & Drug Free Schools: Violence and substance abuse prevention programming provided by Eaton ISD Prevention Program Services and funded by a Drug Free Community Grant.
- Comprehensive School Health: Find out more about coordinated school health programs. Learn about their successful role in preventing risk behaviors, increasing protective factors and fostering health among youth and families.
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