Part 1: Equipping Caregivers: Adult-supervised drinking during adolescence increases the risk for alcohol misuse.
Webinar Series Description
The Prevention and Parenting Across the Lifespan webinar series will highlight programs, research, and resources available to support caregivers in promoting healthy youth development. This series will look at opportunities to prevent substance misuse during adolescence and college-age years. The series is designed to support and enhance the work of substance misuse professionals and coalitions.
Webinar Description
Parents teach their children many skills. Some parents may try to teach their teens how to drink alcohol responsibly in the home so that their teens will know how to better manage alcohol when they move out on their own. Even though this is a very logical thing to do, it can make teen and young adult drinking problems worse. Dr. Bailey will share recent research by her team showing that teens who drank at home with parent or adult supervision have more alcohol problems not only in their teens, but also into their 30s.
Webinar Objectives
In this webinar, participants will:
- Learn basic information about teen alcohol and drug use, including when teens start using different substances, which ones they are most likely to use, and common effects of substance use on teens.
- Understand why allowing teens to drink in the home is not a good idea.
Date & Time
Thursday, January 30, 2025
10:00 am – 11:00 am Alaska
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Mountain
(View in your time zone)
Audience
Prevention practitioners, allied health partners and community members working to prevent substance misuse in tribes, communities, and states in HHS Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington).
Presenters
Jennifer A. Bailey, PhD
Dr. Bailey is Assistant Director and Director of Research in the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington. She is trained in developmental psychology, which is the study of how people grow and change during their lifetime. She has over 20 years of experience researching risk and protective factors for drug and alcohol use in adolescence and adulthood. She also studies the effects of drug and alcohol policy on substance use.
Registration
COST: FREE!
Continuing Education
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance of 1 hour for completion of this live webinar event.
Questions
Please contact Holly Simak ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For any other questions, please contact Kathy Gardner ([email protected]).
