MISSION STATEMENT:

Parents, guardians, and community working together for drug-free youth.

GOAL:

To develop a community-wide coalition of parents and other adults working together to implement the SAFE HOMES Parents Network in their homes, schools, and community.

The Safe Homes Parents Network is a pledge-based, drug prevention project for parents and guardians of youth in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades.

It provides parents and guardians an opportunity to talk with each other and to unite in a clear message to all youth that there will be NO USE of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs in the community.

OBJECTIVES:

• Parents and Guardians will supervise all gatherings of youth on their property.

• Families will not allow the possession or use of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs by youth in their homes or on their property.

• Parents and guardians will know where their children are, will oversee their activities and will set appropriate expectations and consequences for their behavior.

SAFE HOMES PLEDGE:

• I will actively supervise all gatherings of youth in our home or on our property, or ask another responsible adult for help to do so.

• I will not allow the possession or use of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs by youth in our home or on our property.

• I will set expectations for my children by knowing where they are, whom they are with, what they are doing, and when they are to return home.