Media campaigns
Our media campaigns are created to educate, change social norms, and reduce youth substance use in our community. We are constantly collecting data on substance use trends and focus our efforts accordingly. Campaigns include billboards, mailers, radio advertisements, newspaper ads, posters, and Facebook advertisements.
What Parents Can Do.
Preventing Teen Marijuana Use
Conversations about marijuana may seem difficult to navigate with your kids, but a little work on the front end can protect your child’s health and safety for years to come. Parent Up is here to help! Learn more about our 4 C’s and check out our tips and tools for talking to youth about marijuana at parentupkc.com/marijuana.
Summer Is Coming!
Help Ensure Your Kids
Stay Alcohol-Free!
Summer is upon us! As our kids experience more freedom and extra spare time, the risk for teen drinking increases. It’s important to prevent underage drinking to keep teens sage from drunk driving, accidents, and the many other negative consequences, but preventing underage drinking also protects teens’ developing brains! Set clear no-use alcohol rules with your kids and help ensure that this summer is a good one. Parent Up is packed full of tips, tools, and conversation starters to help you prevent alcohol use in your kids. Check them out at parentupkc.com/alcohol.
Watch. Drop. Talk.
Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse
Everyone has a role to play in keeping powerful prescription drugs out of the hands of our youth. Together we can keep kids and teens safe from prescription drug misuse and accidental poisonings by using the “Watch. Drop. Talk.” strategy.
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Meaningful Meals
Research points to family meals as helping to increase children’s academic performance, literacy, and connection to family, while decreasing the risk of depression, substance use, and obesity. It doesn’t have to be complicated! The goal is sitting down together for a 20-minute family meal most days of the week.
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This is Quitting
This is Quitting is a free text-based youth vaping cessation tool. Youth ages 13-24 can get anonymous help to quit vaping by texting BREAKFREE to 88709
Parent Up: Parents Have Power
Parents have the most influence. The rules you set, the relationships you build, and the conversations you have about substance use influence the decisions your kids make. Teens who learn about the risks of substance use from their parents are half as likely to use substances as their peers.
Root Your Family in Resilience
This campaign, part of the larger Roots of Resilience campaign, provides encouragement and support to families and community members as they cope with this challenging time. Messages encourage building connection, modeling and teaching self-care, and modeling healthy coping skills.
Share the Truth with Our Youth
Share the Truth is a campaign to prevent youth vaping. This campaign highlights the risks of youth vaping and encourages parents to talk about these risks with their kids.
Roots of Resilience
This campaign aims to educate the public about the effects of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and nurture resilient kids.
Parent Up Alcohol Prevention
Parent Up is a Northland-Wide campaign supported by multiple local coalitions. The goal is to empower parents to talk with their kids about their expectations regarding underage drinking and to be present in their kids’ lives. Building parent-child communication helps prevent underage drinking.
Positive Coping Skills
This campaign empowers adults to model positive coping skills (and other positive behaviors) for kids around them so that kids learn positive behavior.
Prescription Drug Misuse Awareness
This campaign’s goal is to educate the public that many kids get prescription drugs from unsuspecting family members. We all need to make sure our prescription medications are properly secured and are not shared.
Chew Tobacco Prevention
This campaign is designed to remind parents that kids learn behaviors from us; both positive and negative behaviors.
Resilience Film Screenings
This campaign is designed to remind parents that kids learn behaviors from us; both positive and negative behaviors.
To request a showing email: info@raycountycoalition.com