When children have a sense of purpose, it can help them make smarter choices when it comes to drug and alcohol use. One way to do this is to involve them in activities that let them feel they’re making a difference in the world.

Topics: Family Table Time

If only life were like the fairy tales we read to our children when they’re little: bloodless, maybe a bit tense, but always with a happy ending.

Topics: advice

Rights, riots, and responsibility are all “R” words that belong together. It’s Spring Break in Miami, where we have seen it all for 40 years. This year Spring Break is beyond anything observed in the past! Rite of passage (another “R” word) has been used to describe the behaviors we observe during Spring Break.

Topics: President's Message

A mentally healthy human being is one who knows how to effectively deal with emotions. Anger, frustration, disappointment, fear, sadness...at one time or another, these are common—and often constructive—emotions we all feel.

Topics: tips, children

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that substance use among teens can:

Topics: drug abuse, drug prevention, drugs, alcohol abuse

“He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured his own.”

Topics: family dinner, Family Table Time, community

As marijuana use becomes legal in more states (although its use is still a federal crime), the long-standing stigma associated with the drug has begun to recede. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe. And it’s especially unsafe for teens and young adults.

Topics: marijuana

Coordinated Services; Coordinated Efforts are Needed

Topics: President's Message

“No man is an island, entire of itself . . . Therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Topics: prevention, drug prevention

The Latin phrase, mens sana in corpore sano, means “healthy mind, healthy body.” Scholars differ about the meaning of this quote from the Roman poet Juvenal, but many take it to mean that you can’t have one without the other.

Topics: Family Table Time