Vision
Vision, mission, values, goals, and objectives

Parent Corps Parent Leaders are taking part in a three-year pilot program in 20 schools in nine states across the country—a powerful influence, but still a drop in the bucket, of the more than 94,000 schools in America. The Parent Corps wants to have one Parent Leader in every school in the nation by 2014.

Schools have increasingly been burdened with the default position of substituting for some parents in the struggle to keep kids drug free. Members of the Parent Corps take the responsibility for adolescent drug prevention back into the arms of trained parents who, armed with scientific information about the effects of drugs on adolescents, take action to protect them.

Vision

Keep every child free of alcohol, tobacco, and other addictive drugs.

Mission

Place a Parent Leader in every school to educate and mobilize parents to protect the health, safety, and well-being of their children by preventing them from using alcohol, tobacco, and other addictive drugs.

Values

• Safe, healthy, drug-free children
• Parents reconnected to school
• Parent involvement
• Parent empowerment
• Parent responsibility
• Prevention
• Reliance on science
• Respect for law
• Civic engagement
• Volunteerism and collaboration
• Diversity and inclusiveness
• Honesty
• Ethical management
• Responsible stewardship of resources

Parent Leader Goals and Objectives

Goals 1 and 2
Contact all parents in their child’s school.
Educate them about how drugs affect children.

• Objective
Parents will understand the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs on the brain, behavior, and abuse/addiction.

Goal 3
Teach parents in their child’s school that all children are at risk.

• Objective
Parents will understand the effects of tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs on child and adolescent social, emotional, and intellectual development.

Goal 4
Persuade parents in their child’s school to believe research showing that parents are the most powerful influence in their children’s lives.

• Objective
Parents will understand the risk and protective factors for child and adolescent tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use.

Goal 5
Mobilize parents in their child’s school into groups that stop the marketing of drugs to children.

• Objective
Parents will understand how to provide drug-free environments and opportunities for children and adolescents.

• Objective
Parents will understand the influence of the media (TV, movies, Internet) and other environmental sources on child and adolescent tobacco, alcohol or other drug use and how to limit exposure to these sources.

• Objective
Parents will form parent groups to protect children and adolescents from tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use.

• Objective
Parents will know how to identify problems in their child’s social and commercial environment (community) and set goals to solve those problems.

Goal 6
Create a support network that fosters the growth of healthy children capable of reaching their full potential.

• Objective
Parents will gain an understanding of civic systems and how to advocate to influence policy and regulations regarding tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use.

• Objective
Parents will understand the difference between advocacy and lobbying.

• Objective
Parents will understand how to use science-based curricula, programs, and strategies to prevent child and adolescent tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use.