Parent Information/Resources

Your Life Iowa is available 24/7 when you don’t know who to turn to about a problem with alcohol, drugs, gambling, suicidal thoughts or mental health.  They provide free, confidential support and connect you to resources meant to help you get your life back on track. 

Keep Connected offers all kinds of families—and organizations that support them—ideas, activities, and experiences to help build strong family relationships. Their goal is to strengthen family relationships to help kids be and become their best selves.   

Their mission is to inspire and empower youth to find their natural high and develop the skills and courage to live life well.

They offer tools and resources for drug prevention and life skills to help youth thrive.

The "Talk They Hear You" campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking to their children early about the dangers of alcohol.  

Smart Approaches to Marijuana, SAM, offers information on marijuana in regards to scientific findings and studies.  They look at legalization issues as well as what has happened in Colorado and other states that have legalized marijuana. 

Family Checkup is a publication highlighting parenting skills that are important in preventing the initiation & progression of drug use among youth.  

Family Day celebrates simple, everyday things parents do to connect with their kids.  This website provides simple, little things you can do with your kids to make a big difference. These activities create strong, healthy relationships that can prevent future drug use.   

Common Sense Media rates, educates, and advocates for kids, families, and schools in regards to media. 

Iowa ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) looks into the ACES study and how childhood trauma can have life long negative impacts on a child.   

 The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States. 

 NIDA's mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.   

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) offers free, downloadable publications and tip sheets, as well as mobile apps for youth, teens, and young adults on topics such as substance misuse, common mental health conditions, and coping with disasters and other traumatic events.  

A toolkit to help keep your family safe from drug overdose.

Operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians, this website provides scientifically accurate information from a family medicine perspective on substance abuse.   

The parents guide to fentanyl details what exactly fentanyl is and how parents can help safeguard their children from using it.