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Mentor announces the launch of Prevention-Smart Parents, a free e-learning course that emphasizes the importance of parental influence and the family environment in preventing drug misuse. The website launches on June 26th, 2009 and coincides with the UN World Drug Day.
Parenting is a 24/7 activity, and parents have the greatest influence on their children?s lives. Prevention-Smart Parents is the first free global resource to help parents via an online e-learning program. It was created by scientists and individuals commissioned by Mentor from many countries so that the e-learning course applies to many cultures and communities.
The content is divided into easy-to-use chapters that provide comprehensive drug abuse prevention information for families with children of all ages.
Each chapter is designed to actively engage users and provide practical resources for parents/caregivers to use at home and with their children.
Executive Director, Jeff Lee, says that one of the challenges in creating the website was to present content in ways that reflect many cultures and communities. ?There are several prevention resources on the Internet that are country-specific. Our objective was to add a unique e-learning program that would be as relative to a mother in Uganda as is it to a father in Colombia. Our prevention website represents contributions from the entirety of the Mentor Family, which does come from countries around the world.?
Dr. Ken Winters, a consultant to Mentor says: ?When Mentor came to us, they asked for prevention strategies that are backed by science and tested in applied settings. A reliable finding from prevention research is that the most significant tools in drug misuse prevention are strong parenting and strong families. Prevention-Smart Parents is built around these findings.?
Find out more at: prevention-smart.org. |
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