What can REDUCE the Risk?

• Feeling connected with and valued by family and other significant adults
• Parental supervision and involvement with child’s activities
• High educational aspirations of parent and child
• Academic success
• Feeling connected with school and valuing academic achievement
• Strong bonds with social institutions (school, church, community)
• Personal disapproval of drug and alcohol use
• Prsonal belief that drug and alcohol use is dangerous and harmful
• Having parents who verbalize expectations about and consequences for using alcohol and other drugs