Creating Awareness about Drugs and Alcohol among Children Rockford MI

Children’s trust in parents can go way up on the scale when they actually researched the topic of drugs with their parents. Many successful parents decide that one of the best ways to avoid their children being drawn into drugs, is to educate them, and learn together, rather than simply condemning the topic out of hand.

Beauchamp Consulting Associates Inc
(616) 235-9303
8500 Algoma Street
Rockford, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, DUI/DWI offenders

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Arbor Circle Corporation
(616) 459-7215
1115 Ball Avenue
Grand Rapids, MI
Hotline
(616) 485-3001
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, Men, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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North Kent Guidance Services LLC
(616) 361-5001
5250 Northland Drive NE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Salvation Army
(616) 742-0351x742
72 Sheldon Boulevard SE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Outpatient

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Proaction Behavioral Health Alliance
(616) 776-0891x401
822 Cherry Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Methadone Maintenance, Methadone Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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West Michigan Addiction Consultants PC
(616) 365-8800
3001 Fuller Avenue NE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment

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Pine Rest Christian Mental Hlth Servs
(616) 364-1500
1700 East Beltline Street
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Pine Rest
(616) 227-6861
523 Lyon Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Men
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Bethany Christian Services
(616) 224-7617
901 Eastern Avenue NE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Language Services
French, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Proaction Behavioral Health Alliance
(616) 954-1991
3351 Claystone Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Seniors/older adults
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Creating Awareness about Drugs and Alcohol among Children

Children require a lot of power to stand firm under peer demands and media control. The most helpful weapon when it comes to alcohol and drugs for your children is facts and knowledge, instead of shock strategy and pressure from their parents. Children’s trust in parents can go way up on the scale when they actually researched the topic of drugs with their parents. Many successful parents decide that one of the best ways to avoid their children being drawn into drugs, is to educate them, and learn together, rather than simply condemning the topic out of hand. Children usually believe things that they figure out for themselves, rather than things that they have head from their parents secondhand. Also, as most parents know, teenagers want to do the exact things that their parents say is “bad for them”. So, taking the time to research together with your children will encourage them to absorb what they are learning about, rather than simply giving out parental warnings and threats that they can shrug off.It’s not uncommon that the more those parents say “don’t do it”, then the more their kids want to. Many of the children who do use alcohol and drugs, in fact had very strict parents who would not even speak of such habits in the household. And thus these are the children seem to fall prey to a taboo effect. The psychology of taboo means that children often try something simply because they are not supposed to. Don’t add the mysti...

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