Kelly Townsend:  Homeschool Conference Speaker and Workshop Leader Details

The most important piece of the puzzle is that most drug education isn’t about drugs at all, it is about communication. We will help parents with a checklist developed from everything we’ve learned in 15 years of teaching drug prevention education in private schools in California. Our goal is to keep homeschool children protected and homeschool families proactive and not reactive.

Included in this presentation will be discussions about warning signs, how to begin the conversation in early childhood, role modeling as prevention, positive & proactive parenting, communication, listening and talking, life skills, supporting the nonusers, phone trees when you’re not at a traditional school, how negative thinking breeds reactive parenting, the human body, drugs and alcohol.

The presentation will include a handout with a checklist of the presentation ideas for the home school parent. This presentation is based on our booklets “A Home School Parent’s Checklist of Drug Prevention” and “A Mother’s Checklist of Drug Prevention.”

The Other Side Of The User: How To Help A Friend In Trouble (Teen) (with Jonathon Scott)
After our first conference working with home school students, we spent hours answering questions from teens who were worried about other people in their lives. Others had many friends in the public school systems that were already in trouble. We call these non-using students “the other side of the user” – they are kids left to deal with other peoples’ drug and alcohol use. Many parents told us that their kids didn’t use drugs, so they didn’t see drug prevention as a priority. What those same parents didn’t realize was that their kids were carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders with nobody to ask for help.