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Family Day Kansas Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free |
Open up the lines Here are some helpful links to help get a conversation started and tips on how to talk to your child about substance abuse: The Importance of Family Dinners VI Eating Together and Family Meals Drug Free - Connecting With Your Kids 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 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--post blurbs in church bulletins;
•Have displays at grocery stores encouraging families to cook a meal together; ask your local grocer to make fliers 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;
•Locally create public service announcements, press releases for the newspaper and radio stations in your area and utilize other multi-media opportunities to promote “Family Day”;
•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 primarily 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.
The Kansas items are intentionally created so that they can be promoted throughout the year; however, new items are typically available each fiscal year, dependent on available funding.
We ask that you please contact Kansas Family Partnership before creating local materials that promote Family Day if you use the Kansas Family Day logo.
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 (2011 items):
Please note:
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Kansas has underwritten the 2011 Family Day campaign.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation (BCBSKS) does not cover the Kansas counties of Johnson or Wyandotte.
There are two versions of each promotional item - one with the BCBSKS logo and one without.
Kansas Family Day flier
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BCBSKS Logo |
BCBSKS Logo For use at restaurants, business break rooms, front desks, check-out counters, etc. |
BCBSKS Logo Can be distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, libraries, etc. |
Lemon Pepper Chicken Can be distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, libraries, etc. |
Sample Proclamation letter template A sample letter to city or county officials or schools, for use in obtaining a Family Day proclamation. |
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Kansas Family Day flier |
For use at restaurants, business break rooms, front desks, check-out counters, etc. |
Kansas Family Day recipe card Salmon Sticks Can be distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, libraries, etc. |
Can be distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, libraries, etc. |
Sample Proclamation This proclamation can be used for schools, and city and county governments, etc. |
(Available web only) |
Douglas County Research & Extension blog 9/22/10 - Chef Alli and Hy-Vee promote Family Day in Topeka 9/22/10
- Award earned for Kansas Family Day campaign 5/10
- ValueOptions of Kansas Celebrates Family Day
- Families Invited To Share A Meal Sept. 28 - 9/08/09
- 2009 Proclamation Signing with Governor Parkinson - 9/10/09
- Sebelius Press Conference @ North Topeka Dillons - 9/21/07
The 2011 Kansas Family Day Committee includes:
Keri Renner, Committee chair - Kansas Family Partnership, Inc. - Topeka
Tammy Adams - ValueOptions® of Kansas - Topeka
Ginny Barnard - K-State Research & Extension - Liberal
Holly Higgins - Kansas Farm Bureau - Manhattan
Ardith Holmes - Emporians for Drug Awareness - Emporia
Debbie Lawson - Kansas PTA - Lenexa
Valerie Leon - St. Francis Community Services - Wichita
Carla Smith - Reno County Communities That Care - Hutchinson
Gayla Randel - Kansas State Department of Education - Topeka
Partner listing - Family Day Kansas campaign partners (signed endorsements)
Thank you to the following agencies and individuals who have signed on to help promote Family Day:
- Kansas Association of Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences (KATFACS)
- Kansas Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)
- Kansas Action for Children, Inc. - Topeka
- First Presbyterian and United Methodist Church - Wilson
- Health & Wellness Coalition of Dickinson County - Abilene
- Big Brothers Big Sisters - Hutchinson
- Southeast Kansas Education Service Center - Girard
- Reno County Communities That Care - Hutchinson
- Chef Alli's - Topeka
- YouthFriends of Reno County - Hutchinson
- YouthFriends Kansas - Girard
- Emporians for Drug Awareness - Emporia
- St. Francis Community Services - Wichita
Partnership Agreement - if you're interested in partnering with us to promote in your area
The following agencies or persons have either lent support to the Family Day campaign in Kansas through staff efforts, in-kind services or financial contributions.
If you would like to help underwrite or lend support to the promotion of Family Day in Kansas, please contact Keri Renner, Kansas Family Day chair, at Kansas Family Partnership.
• Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services/Addiction
and Prevention Services
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation
• Chef Alli's Meal Assembly & Culinary Center
• Kansas State Department of Education
• Kansas
Regional Prevention Centers
• Kansas PTA
• Kansas Farm Bureau
• K-State Research and Extension - Kansas State University
• Reno County Communities That Care coalition
• Emporians for Drug Awareness coalition
• ValueOptions® of Kansas
• St. Francis Community Services
• Kansas Family Partnership, Inc.
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