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Family Day Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free |
Open up the lines of communication with your children! Here are some helpful links to help get a conversation started and tips on how to talk to your child about substance abuse: Family Dinners: The Recipe for Connectedness How to Say It: Drugs and Alcohol Family Guide Drug Free - Connecting With Your Kids Talking With Kids About Tough Issues Ten Questions for a Dad to Ask His Kid
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- Family Day-A day to eat dinner with your children
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The National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA),
created Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children™ in
2001, as a national effort to promote family dinners as an effective
way to reduce substance abuse among children and teens. Family
Day is celebrated on the fourth Monday in September.
Kansas Family Partnership, Inc. has celebrated and helped to promote Family Day in Kansas since 2002. Family Day emphasizes the importance of regular family activities and encourages Americans to make family dinners a regular feature of their lives. Parental engagement is the single most potent weapon in preventing substance use and abuse among youth!
Research by CASA at Columbia University consistently finds that the more often children eat dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
The conversations that go hand-in-hand with dinner will help you learn more about your children’s lives and better understand the challenges they face.
See the lefthand column on this page for more helpful tips in communicating as a parent or guardian with your children.
Begin making family dinners a regular part of your daily routine!
MISSION:
The Family Day Committee will work together to promote Family Day-A Day to Eat Dinner With Your Children™ within the state of Kansas to create awareness that the more often youth eat dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or do drugs (based on research by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University-CASA).
GOALS:
To educate Kansans about the importance of parental or guardian involvement in the lives of youth as a manner of lowering the risk of substance abuse;
To promote a message of prevention for youth by encouraging communication between parents, grandparents or guardians and youth;
To provide science-based prevention information to the public with regard to Family Day-A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children™; and
To encourage businesses, faith communities, schools, community groups and others to support Family Day activities and be involved in promoting it in Kansas.
To assist you in the implementation of awareness events at the local level, here are a few suggestions to get you started:
•Use public service announcements, press releases and other multi-media opportunities to promote “Family Day”;•Use the sample proclamation on the web site to get your own city and county commission, even school board, to recognize the day;
•Encourage restaurants to offer discounts or coupons to redeem for families dining together that day; provide table tents;
•Ask businesses with marquees to post messages promoting “Family Day”;
•Provide churches with messages to use to encourage participation by families;
•Have displays at grocery stores encouraging families to cook a meal together; ask your local grocer to make flyers available at checkouts promoting “Family Day”;
•Work with your local extension agent to provide a cooking demonstration with ideas for “Family Day”;
•Send messages home to parents through schools and/or school newsletters; ask families to send in stories of what they did together and promote them; encourage families to sign the pledge to eat a meal together that day;
•Encourage businesses to allow employees’ families to come eat with them that day/evening;
•Ask your public library to promote games, recipes and other resources they have that families can use;
•Tell your daycare provider about the importance of Family Day and have them help promote it;•Promote and publicize with any youth-serving organization – 4-H; Boys & Girls Club; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts; etc.
Family Day printed promotional items are made available each year by Kansas Family Partnership and distributed via local Regional Prevention Centers (RPCs) throughout the state. We encourage organizations to first contact their local RPC about ordering Family Day materials. Items may be ordered directly from Kansas Family Partnership, but are available on a first-come, first-serve basis, since quantities are limited.To locate the RPC in your area, click this link. Other Family Day printed promotional items are available through the national CASA Family Day Web site.
For your convenience, and instant access, Kansas Family Partnership has provided items (see below) in a downloadable format (PDF) for you to print on your own.
Items you can use for download below:
Statewide flyer to print off and use locally for informational purposes.Kansas Family Day recipe cards
Can be distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, libraries, etc.For use at restaurants, business break rooms, front desks, check-out counters, etc.
Sample Proclamation letter template
(Available web only)
A sample letter to city or county officials or schools, for use in obtaining a Family Day proclamation.Sample Proclamation
(Available web only)This proclamation can be used for schools, and city and county governments, etc.
(Available web only)
These can be downloaded and printed with local information printed on the front or opposite side. Use side two to print local info.
2007 Family Day celebrations:
North Topeka Dillons Store, Sept. 21, 2007 - more info
Texas Roadhouse, Topeka, Sept. 24, 2007 - see this video
Did you celebrate Family Day with your family this year? Did your business or church promote Family Day? Kansas Family Partnership is interested in learning how Family Day was celebrated in your community.
Please tell us how you celebrated Family Day by submitting your information to Kansas Family Partnership!
We'd like to hear from you!
2009 Proclamation Signing with Governor Parkinson - 9/10/09
Families Invited To Share A Meal Sept. 28 - 9/08/09
ValueOptions of Kansas Celebrates Family Day
New! Award earned for Kansas Family Day campaign
The 2010 Kansas Family Day Committee includes:
Keri Renner, Committee chair - Kansas Family Partnership, Inc. - Topeka
Tammy Adams - ValueOptions® of Kansas - Topeka
Dena Dean - Topeka/Shawnee County Regional Prevention Center - Topeka
Ardith Holmes - Emporians for Drug Awareness - Emporia
Lorrie Kessler - Regional Prevention Center of South Central Kansas - Newton
Carla Morrical-Frederking - K-State Research & Extension - Ellis County/Hays
Orvella Romine - Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center - Colby
Carla Smith - Reno County Communities That Care - Hutchinson
Valerie Leon - St. Francis Community Services - Wichita
•Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services/Addiction
and Prevention Services
•Kansas Regional Prevention Centers
•K-State Research and Extension - Kansas State University
•Reno County Communities That Care
•Emporians for Drug Awareness
•ValueOptions® of Kansas
•Kansas Family Partnership/Red Ribbon Campaign/Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free/Kansas SADD chapters
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