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What’s in it for potential donors?

It is not inevitable that children will experiment with drugs. Parents can keep children healthy and drug free. The Parent Corps shows them how.

~The Parent Corps

If we truly understand that children are our future, the Parent Corps is a vital, and, some say “last chance” effort to save the next generation. Harnessing the power of parents, we can help stop drug abuse in every neighborhood, in every school, in all of America.

~The Parent Corps

Prevention Works

Donors can invest in something that works. Recent research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows that for each dollar spent on substance-abuse prevention, a savings of $10 in treatment costs can be realized. (Similar findings show that for every dollar spent on substance-abuse treatment, $4 to $7 can be saved in other drug-related costs.)

Donors can give parents a better chance.

Parents need a better chance to fight a culture that markets drug use and death to children. A better chance to keep their kids drug-free. A better chance to keep their kids alive, healthy, and growing up strong, without the heartbreak of drug addiction.

Donors can give schools a better chance.

School kids today are “plugged-in” to one another with even more powerful peer influences than ever. Schools have increasingly been burdened with the default position of substituting for some parents in the struggle to keep kids drug free. The Parent Corps takes the responsibility for adolescent drug prevention back into the arms of trained parents who are armed with scientific information about the effects of drugs on adolescents.

Donors can give motorists a better chance.

The reduction of drunk-driving deaths on the nation’s highways during the past 25 years can most dramatically illustrate how many lives prevention has saved:

With Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) leading the charge, the number of annual drunk-driving fatalities has dropped from 26,173 per year in 1982 to 17,013 per year in 2003.

Ten of thousands of drunk-driving fatalities have been prevented since, at the insistence of parents, states began raising the drinking age from 18 to 21.

Donors can give business a better chance.

Substance abuse is costly to employers. Health care costs for employees with alcohol problems are twice those of other employees. Heavy drinkers and drug users are more likely than others to have skipped work in the past month and to have worked for three or more employers in the past year, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Donors can give the nation a better chance.

Substance abuse is America’s worst healthcare problem. It costs the country more than $414 billion each year. The cost of alcohol use by underage youth alone is estimated to be $52.8 billion. And these costs say nothing of the emotional pain and suffering that ripple across families and friends whenever a life is damaged, lost to addiction, or ended prematurely.