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How to Not Lose Your Child to Substance Use
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How to Not Lose Your Child to Substance Use

Parenting Strategies for Prevention, Communication, and Resilience in the Face of Substance Use
Created byDr. Sakyi C. F.
Last updated 10/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Recognize risks and strengthen protective factors within your family
  • Create an integrated relationship that facilitates trust and openness
  • Discuss substances in a way that fosters dialogue rather than defensiveness
  • Establish the guidelines, observe closely, and place online restrictions
  • Spot early warning signs and respond calmly before risks escalate
  • Oversee first essential 72 hours if use has begun
  • Teach coping and resilience skills that compete with drive to use
  • Make a long-range commitment with school, peers, and the community

Course content

8 sections • 8 lectures • 1h 36m total length

  • Introduction8:13

    Because you’re here, you care about protecting your child, and your relationship, against the damage of substance use today. If you’re noticing first signs of concern or if you’re looking at enhancing an existing safety net, we give you the resources you need to act from a place of calmness, confidence, and compassion.

    How NOT TO Lose Your Child to Substance Use Is NOT About Fear, Blame, or Control. It’s Prevention, Protection, and Resilience, together.

    In eight brief, bite-sized modules, you will learn what indeed reduces risk at home, how to communicate so your child won’t tune out, and step-by-step direction if you’re already concerned. You will gain scripts for tough conversations, forms for family rules and routines, and strategies borrowed from motivational interviewing, CBT/DBT, and family-centered approaches.

    You don’t have to be perfect to create a difference, just be present. By the end of the journey, you will hold a customized map of ways to secure your child, drive with empathy, and fortify trust for years to come.

    Who it’s for: Parents and carers of children aged 8–18 years (tips by age)

    Format: 8 modules with worksheets, scripts, checklists, and family planning tools.

Requirements

  • No prior experience or knowledge required

Description

Substances are rampant, drugs, alcohol, marijuana, vaping, pills, and kids are coming online at an earlier age. You can’t do everything your child does, but you do possess the prerogative of helping provide the environment, the dialogue, and the relationship that best protects them.

This course will enable you to do the same, without fear, shame, nor tedious lectures.

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Who It’s For

• Caregivers of children aged between 8–18 years

• Families that need effective prevention strategies before problems develop

• children who are anxious for school to start

•All who yearn for an increased trust relationship and remain connected despite the adolescent years

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Contents

8 brief modules you may listen/view at your own leisure.

Each one includes:

•Scripted dialogue for seamless hard conversations

• Checklists for you to identify warning signs and track progress

• Sheet & templates for creating certain guidelines, online limits, & routines

• Age-specific tips for younger kids vs. teens

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What You’ll Learn

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Recognize risks and strengthen protective factors within your family

• Create an integrated relationship that facilitates trust and openness

• Discuss substances in a way that fosters dialogue rather than defensiveness

• Establish the guidelines, observe closely, and place online restrictions

• Spot early warning signs and respond calmly before risks escalate

•Oversee first essential 72 hours if use has begun

• Teach coping and resilience skills that compete with drive to use

• Make a long-range commitment with school, peers, and the community

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Our Approach

This isn’t about fear. It’s about:

• Prevention science -- effective strategies that work at home

• Motivational interviewing — speaking in a way that maintains children's engagement

• CBT/DBT skills -- strategies for developing coping, problem solving, and resiliency

• Family-centered approaches—because relationships are the best protection

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The Promise

You need not be a perfect parent in order to protect your child.

You need only be a present one.

Who this course is for:

  • Caregivers of children aged between 8–18 years
  • Families that need effective prevention strategies before problems develop
  • children who are anxious for school to start
  • All who yearn for an increased trust relationship and remain connected despite the adolescent years

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