Macomb County office of Substance Abuse

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Community Action Parent Info Videos

ALCOHOL SERVER VIDEO- YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
This video is designed to teach bartenders and other wait staff to determine how to tell if a customer has had too much to drink. It also shows how to make alternative suggestions for other non-alcohol drinks if someone seems to have had too much to drink. (2001, 19 Min.)
Selected Audience: Bartenders, waitress, other adults

COMING TOGETHER ON PREVENTION
This video presents 3 prevention models based on NIDA sponsored research: "Reconnecting Youth", "Project Star", and "Strengthening Families". (1994, 27 min.)
Selected Audience: All target audiences/Treatment Counselors

CREATING SAFER, HEALTHIER NEIGHBORHOODS
CREATING SAFER, HEALTHIER NEIGHBORHOODS by Reducing Chronic Public Inebriation This case study shows the results of a grassroots effort to reduce public inebriation in the city of Tacoma. The goal was to reduce the effects of public consumption of alcohol that endanger the welfare, health, peace or safety of a neighborhood or community. Key components to success are discussed to help provide strategies that can lead to productive results. (2005, 16 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: Adults

DEBUNKING THE MYTHS ABOUT MARIJUANA
Every day, more than 3,000 American youth try marijuana for the first time. Between 1991 and 2001, the number of 8th graders who used the drug doubled from one in ten to one in five. Each year, more youth enter treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence thatn for all other illicit drugs combined. Despite these alarming facts, many communities aren't taking marijuana seriously. This video is designed to change that by debunking popular myths and encourage communities to get involved in youth marijuana prevention. (2003, 7 min)
Selected Audience: Community, Parents

DRINK SELLS THE DREAM
This award-winning documentary examines how alcohol is promoted in our society through sports, cultural events, billboards, and other media. The video critically examines advertising directed at high-risk populations including college students, African Americans, Hispanics, women, heavy drinkers, and youth. (1993, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults/Parents/Community groups

DRUG ABUSE AND HIV: REACHING THOSE AT RISK
This video shows how three intervention models educate out-of-treatment injecting drug users about AIDS, about the behaviors that transmit the disease, and about strategies that reduce the risk of contracting AIDS. Focuses primarily on an indigenous leader community outreach model. (1995, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups/Substance abuse counselors

DRUG FREE ZONES
Drug Free Zones Taking Action is a fast-paced inspirational video that offers hope and more. Dedicated citizens talk about the challenges they faced and what they did. This video will motivate you to organize your community to take action against drug dealing and alcohol-related problems in your schools, neighborhoods, parks and housing developments. (1991, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: Law enforcement/Community groups

FACES OF ADDICTION
This three part HBO special contains: Flashback (11 Min.) about high school addicts. 27th and Prospect (8 Min.) about citizens fighting for their neighborhood. Addiction (14 Min.) about statistics and families. (1997, 34 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adults

HIGH ON MYSELF
"High on Myself" is a rap video produced by 4H. The video features teenagers rapping an anti-drug message which also encourages kids to get involved in alternative highs. (1987, 4 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/High school

HOW TO DEVELOP A COMMUNITY-WIDE ALCOHOL/ DRUG PROGRAM
Tape 1: Mobilizing Your Community - This video will show you how to: develop and maintain interest, develop and define the task force, work together, identify and reach your goals, and obtain funding. (32 Min.) Tape 2: Basic Guidelines for Effective Programs - This video will show you how past mistakes can be avoided. Adults have a part in helping young people, alcohol impacts teenagers, prevention and student assistance fit together, and that each system needs to help. (28 Min.) Tape 3: Helpful Programs for Each Part of the Community - Jim Crowley clarifies how each system or group can contribute to bringing more effective programs to young people. (28 Min.) (1988)
Selected Audience: Community task forces

HUMOR YOUR STRESS: JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!
Loretta LaRoche, the Master of Mirth, shows eight steps to enlightenment. Loretta finds ways to make you rethink and put your lives back into perspective. (1996, 60 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults

INHALANTS CHANNEL 2 NEWS STORY & PSA
Fox 2 provides a mini report on Inhalants. The access to these drugs is readily available at local stores to kids through "Get High" kits. These kits contain whip-its (nitrous oxide) balloons, and cracker. (2000, 6 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents/Adults

KIDS AND DRUGS - WDIV News Story
Students talk about how they feel about the drug issue. What are the answers for kids and drugs; should we educate, find a common ground, or is Zero Tolerance the answer? Carman Harlen asks several questions. (2000, 58 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school/Adults

LET’S HELP YOUTH STAY DRUG FREE
Part 1: New Goals, New Resources - This is a national teleconference, by SAMHSA, CADCA, CSAP and National Guard. A panel of professionals answer questions and guide the discussion to direct parents and professionals to goals and resources. (117 Min.), Part 2: Building Healthy Youth: Strategies and Services - This national teleconference discusses consequences, the law, peer pressure, attitudes and other issues that surround substance use. Risk and protective factors associated with substance use is another area covered. ALL STARS Program, Dare To Be You, and The Boys and Girls Club are some programs highlighted. Grants awarded and incentive programs available dealt with in this video. (120 Min.) (1997)
Selected Audience: Parents/Professionals

LIFT IT UP
A riveting six-minute video that draws a straight line between alcohol and violence. It tackles the controversial issue of the role alcohol plays in assault, murder, child abuse, rape, emotional trauma, and physical violence. Starting softly -through poetry - the video unmasks the immensity of the issue. (1995, 6 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: REDUCING MINOR'S ACCESS TO TOBACCO
This video explains how to impact the community by offering solutions for access to tobacco. A broad-based group can design goals and objectives through media and educational campaigns. (1995, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups

MICHIGAN ZERO TOLERANCE LAWS: NO FOOLIN’, THEY MEAN IT!
This video is to inform students about the Zero Tolerance laws as they relate to juveniles’ use of alcohol and other drugs. The law and the courts separate alcohol as a drug from drugs such as marijuana, LSD and heroin. Alcohol is a drug. This video will give a general overview of the laws as they apply to students. (1997, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: People under 21 years old

MICHIGAN'S DRUG FREE SCHOOL ZONES
School is a safe haven. Drug use can begin at elementary and can develop into some very serious problems. Through drug abuse programs, students learn physical, emotional, and legal consequences. Schools and drugs don't mix so a law was enacted to make stiffer penalties. (1990, 10 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents/Teachers/Administrators

NEA-ECHOSTAR SAFE SCHOOLS NETWORK SATELLITE BROADCAST
Program One: "Reasons for Help" - Community members from Littleton, Colorado discuss their healing processes and their hopes for the future. Another school system in Columbia, South Carolina examines a school-community program called "Early Alliance" supporting young children, their families, and teachers. (46 Min.) Program Two: "Building a Safe and Responsive School Climate" - Creating safe, responsible, and respectful environments for young people takes the will and commitment of the whole community. This broadcast will look at the components that go into establishing a nurturing and predictable school climate. (60 Min.) Program Three: "Early Signals of Distress" - How does a system identify and respond to warning signs of distress in children? What are some of the effective and comprehensive responses? What is an appropriate role for the school and its employees? How do we avoid stigmatizing children who may be in trouble? This program will look at two school communities and their efforts to understand and heed the messages that young people send. (45 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults-Home/School/Community

PARENTING WITH HUMOR (IS IT POSSIBLE?)
This video by Loretta LaRoche, teaches parents ways to incorporate more joy and humor into parenting on a daily basis. Designed to promote the concept that parenting is a serious job, but you can do it. (1994, 65 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

PARENTS TURN ON THE LIGHTS
This DVD is for parent only! The collection of video clips used are real and were collected from the web for the purpose of educating parents. Although all the clips in this video are available on the internet, this should not be viewed by minors. Some of the content is very disturbing. The Passage Group compiled this information to give parents the “Wake Up Call” needed to take our children back from today’s Toxic Culture. (2007, 26 Mins) DVD
Selected Audience: Parents and community leaders

POISONING YOUR CHILDREN: THE PERILS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE
The Surgeon General, a pediatrician and an environmental pollution expert all give testimony to make a convincing case against secondhand smoke. Real-life examples underline the seriousness of this health hazard. (1994, 12 Min.)
Selected Audience: High School/College/Parents

PREGNANCY ON THE ROCKS
This video examines the effects on the child of limited, as well as excessive, use of alcohol during pregnancy, in a sensitive and humanistic manner with emphasis on education and self-determination by the viewer. (1984, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: Women considering pregnancy, or who are pregnant and their spouses

PREVENTION DOLLARS AT WORK
This video is an interactive guide for computer software that allows prevention organizations to apply for funding and/or look at their program systematically. This valuable guide uses a prevention ladder model with each rung on the ladder representing an important aspect of prevention: costs of ATOD abuse, expenses, project results, projected savings from prevention. (1995, 9 Min. & 4 - 3.5" disks)
Selected Audience: Community groups/Prevention organizations

PSA's - MACOMB COUNTY PREVENTION COALITION
These public services announcements were created by Macomb County youth. Many of them focus on drinking and driving or tobacco issues. (2000, 15 Min.)
Selected Audience: Middle School & High School Students

RALLY, THE
Alcohol and other drug use is not easily addressed by some individuals, as demonstrated in this video. The Rally is intended to provoke discussion within, as well as between, the coaches, parents, and student groups by challenging the stereotypes of the three groups. (1988, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: Schools/Parent or community groups

RIGHT TRIANGLE, THE
Father Martin stresses the importance of parents, teachers, and students meeting together to cooperatively solve problems. This is one way to guarantee that all are receiving the exact, same message. Examples of how this can work are explained. (1988, 23 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents/Students/School personnel

SILENCE CONDONES
Parents may be unaware of the problems/stresses encountered by young people today. In this video, Father Martin instructs parents to: Become educated – learn; develop communication – family home evenings; practice cooperation - - share ideas. He tells parents to be fair and be fun! (1988, 19 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

STONE'S THROW, A
A short but powerful look at how children view alcohol. The premise is to look at ourselves as role models an see how we are unconsciously sending messages. This was produced by the FACE Initiative. (1994, 5 Min. )
Selected Audience: Public service agencies/family-parent groups

TEACHING RESPONSIBLE ALCOHOL USE
Alcohol problems in the military are not unlike those in the general population. According to a 2002 survey by the Department of Defense, nearly half of all active-duty military personnel consume beer, wine or liquor in excess of what could be considered light or moderate drinking. Adverse consequences range from lost productivity, assault and domestic violence to problem drinking and alcoholism rates similar to that found in the general population. The goal of this case study was to create a responsible drinking culture at F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Challenges, approaches and strategies are discussed to help other the learner achieve dramatic outcomes. (2005, 16 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: ADULTS

THIS PLACE
This is a powerful movie that challenges viewers to recognize the many ways that our society allows and even encourages children to drink alcohol. Perhaps most importantly, it demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to take meaningful action that will change the culture of drinking in their communities. Topics discussed include: alcohol and the brain, adult role modeling, advertising, binge drinking, community environments, violence, youth access, and people creating change. (2005, 16 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: ADULTS

TOBACCO FREE YOUTH PROJECT
This video shows the press conference held during the pilot "Tobacco Free Youth" project, a meeting with a store manager and television news. (1988, 70 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups/Health care providers

UNDERAGE DRINKING AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
This video on Zero Tolerance Law includes parents how they could be affected. (2001, 12 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS
This is a story of how a community mobilizes to deal with the problems of alcohol and other drugs and their harmful effects on young people. (1988, 17 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups

WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW: Zero Tolerance Laws 1997
This video is to inform parents about the Michigan Zero Tolerance Laws which are designed to deter the problem of youth drinking and driving. The speaker is Judge Pamela Gilbert O'Sullivan. (19 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

WHAT SHOULD I TELL MY CHILD ABOUT DRINKING?
This two part video looks at the need for parents to take responsibility for discussing alcohol with children. Using "teachable moments" to instruct parents about how they can initiate alcohol-related conversations. (1996, 46 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents/Caregivers

WINNING AT PARENTING. . .without beating your kids
This video features Barbara Coloroso who uses a humorous approach to mealtime, bedtime, chores, fighting, and getting your kids out of the local jail. (1989, 125 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

YOU DON'T HAVE TO
Michigan network of runaway/homeless and youth services. This is a three part storyline used to trigger adolescent groups in sessions that are facilitated by counselors. (1990, 35 Min.)
Selected Audience: Counselors, therapists, parents, teachers and administrators

YOUTH AND ELDERS: AGAINST TOBACCO USE
This video is a national town meeting via satellite on March 24, 1994. The video has strategies for making a difference. Students explain their issues, and the Surgeon General Reports new findings. (1994, 113 Min.)
Selected Audience: School-based prevention/ Community groups