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The Illinois PTA is
part of and works with so many co-operating agencies that have
wonderful resources, projects, events and information for your local
unit and school to participate in and/or share information with.
Because there is so
much information, we decided to have a special page on the website
to share all the information with you. Hopefully this will make it
easier for you to find this important information.
Crime
Prevention Resources
· National Crime Prevention Council’s Be Safe and
Sound toolkit helps school
groups assess the safety of their facilities, and then walks them
through a planning process to fix any problems they find.
- The Safe School
Ambassadors program, a project of Community Matters,
provides training and resources to schools to help harness the
power of students to change their own environment.
- The National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children has created the Power of
Parents program to help to dispel the most common
safety myths and remind families of the importance of keeping an
up-to-date photo of their child.
- The Stop Bullying
Now
campaign, from the Department of Health and Human Services, helps
students and schools learn about what bullying is, and how to
prevent it. Visit their site to download newsletter
articles and reproducible handouts for PTA
events.
Podcasts: Space Place To Go!
No time to think about the wonders of the universe, much less
how to explain them in a simple way to your students? Sign up
for the new Space Place Podcast. Listen when you have
time. In each Podcast, a NASA scientist answers fascinating
questions about space and Earth science, with a little technology
thrown in. Go to spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/educators/podcast/
to subscribe. Or you can listen now on your computer or read
the transcripts. Best of all, you can listen while you go for
a walk, looking up at the beautiful night sky and thinking about all
that is out there, known and unknown.
ILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY
ALLIANCE
SCHOOL
REENTRY
PROGRAM
"THE
JOURNEY BACK"
NEW FREE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE MATERIALS FOR BUSY
PARENTS
**Media Campaign Launches New Hispanic, African
American and General Audience Parent Guides**
The National
Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is releasing three new publications
that coalitions and community organizations can offer to parents and
caregivers to help them talk to their kids about drugs and alcohol.
The new publications include a general audience parenting guide, a
guide for the African-American community and a bilingual guide for
Hispanic families, written in both Spanish and English. You can
order or download these free
materials from www.TheAntiDrug.com.
These new resource materials outline skills
parents and caregivers can use to keep kids drug-free. The "Keeping
Your Teens Drug-Free" guides describe the health hazards and signs
and symptoms of use of many risky substances, including marijuana,
alcohol, meth, inhalants, prescription drugs and steroids. They also
discuss challenges parents may face; how parents are a positive
influence on their kids; opportunities for parents to
start a
dialogue with their teens; monitoring techniques; and what parents
can do and say to keep their children drug-free.
Your
organization can help empower parents and caring adults to
communicate with their teens by encouraging them to check out one or
all of these free parent guides:
* "A Guide for Hispanic
Families"/"Una Guía Para las Familias Hispanas" This
Spanish/English bilingual brochure, specifically written
for Hispanic parents and caregivers, addresses effective
monitoring, communicating and other parenting techniques
that will help parents raise healthy and happy teens.
Order or download at
www.theantidrug.com/news/resourcelist.aspx?id=4
* "A Guide for African American Parents and
Caregivers" This valuable brochure outlines ways parents
and caregivers can draw on the strength of the African
American community to assist in raising healthy teens. Order or
download at www.theantidrug.com/news/resourcelist.aspx?id=3
* "A Family Guide" As an abbreviated version of the
"Keeping Your Kid Drug-Free: A How-To Guide for Parents and
Caregivers," this brochure addresses the importance of family as a
drug deterrent and notes simple techniques that busy parents can use
to prevent drug use. Order or download at www.theantidrug.com/news/resourcelist.aspx?id=3
Additional free anti-drug resources, including
brochures,posters, videos and postcards, are also available and can
be
ordered on TheAntiDrug.com's resource page
http://www.theantidrug.com/news/get -resources.aspx?from=home or by calling The National
Clearinghousefor Alcohol and Drug Information at 1-800-788-2800 to
request a listing of available resources or to place an
order.
A Parent Guide to
No Child Left Behind
All parents want their children to succeed in school.
This guide is designed to give parents, grandparents, and other
caregivers ideas and tips that will improve their children’s
potential for success in school. These ideas also help create a
joyful family life and positive connections between parents and
children, parents and parents, and parents and their children’s
schools.
Guide available in English and
Spanish
www.adi.org/parentguide.html | 
