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3 Tips For Parents & Guardians to Prevent Youth Substance Use

This one-page document shares a few insights for parents and guardians from the 2025 Springfield Prevention Needs Assessment Survey.  Given that only half of enrolled 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students completed the survey, we looked to broader research to see if our findings aligned. Here are the sources we reviewed:

•  O’Connell ME, Boat T, Warner KE. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2009. Preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people: Progress and possibilities. The National Academies Press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32769/
• Carver H, Elliott L, Kennedy C, Hanley J. 2017. Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687637.2016.1221060