Contact:	Holly De Maranville Program Representative 130 Nickerson Street, Suite 107 Seattle, WA 98109 Tel: (800) 736–2630
Main Purpose:	Reducing risks of drug abuse and other behavioral problems
Target Group:	Parents of children in grades 4 through 9
Description:	PDFY is designed for use before children begin experimenting with drugs. Its focus is on family relations, family management practices, and family conflict resolution. Parents acquire the skills to reduce children's risk factors for drug abuse. They also learn the principles of social development strategy to strengthen family bonding. PDFY features two volunteer workshop leaders, one of whom is a parent, who deliver the program in five 2-hour sessions or ten 1-hour sessions. Parents learn to increase children's opportunities for family involvement, teach needed skills, and provide reinforcement and consequences for behavior. Discussion topics include: the nature of the problem, reducing risks by strengthening family bonds, conduct of family meetings, fostering of communication, establishing a family position on drugs, reinforcing refusal skills, anger management, and creating a parent support network. PDFY is based on the research of Hawkins, Catalano, and colleagues on risk and protective factors for adolescent substance abuse.
Evaluation:	An evaluation in rural Iowa, employing an experimental, longitudinal design, showed improvement in parenting behavior, general child management, and parent-child affective quality for parents in the intervention group. Some results are available from an experimental study with followup assessments, also in rural Iowa.

(Source: Strengthening America's Families Project, University of Utah, Model Family Strengthening Program Descriptions)

Parenting IS Prevention Training of Trainers Workshop, 1998	SAMHSA

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