Resources for Professional Audiences

PAD has a bank of programs and resources for health promoters, educators and others who work with youth, parents and families to use and distribute.  PAD researches and presents slide presentations, delivers webinars, and coordinates on-line discussions on issues of current interest in the areas of substance misuse prevention, parent and youth education and youth and family resiliency.  We provide training workshops for youth, parents,  and professionals on a request basis: for additional information, please contact us.

• Online Conversation: Youth and Drinking: Is There Evidence To Support Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines For Youth (2012)

• Webinars – slideshows and recordings on current topics of interest:
  • Series: Family-based Approaches for Building Resiliency in Children and Youth (2014)
  • Emerging Issues in Youth Substance Use: Distinguishing Evidence and Hype (2012)
  • Exploring Resiliency Beyond the Individual: Theory, Framework, Programs and Application (2011)

• Project Reports and Backgrounders – the research behind our projects:
  • Whats with Weed: Marijuana Risks and Realities Final Report for Health Canada (2009; Responding to Problematic Marijuana Use on Campus: A Report From the Field (2009); What’s with Weed Best Practices (2009); Annotated Bibliography (2009)
  • Strengthening Families for Parents and Youth: Report: A community initiative to adapt an evidence‐based model for implementation with families of at‐risk youth (2011)
  • Hook Up to Breast Cancer Prevention: Hook Up Evaluation (2010)
  • Taking Charge: A Consultative Project with Young Women, Professionals and Parents to Develop Resources to Increase Awareness, Prevention and Support (2008)
  • Test Your Alcohol I.Q.: Backgrounder
  • Teens, Partying and Alcohol Poisoning Backgrounder
  • Alcohol and Breast Cancer Connection (2018): Poster 1; Poster 2