MADD's Power of Parents: It's your influence - A message from MADD

This Thursday, April 21st, is the first annual PowerTalk 21(TM), the national day for parents to start talking with their kids about alcohol.

Looking at research and talking to parents, we found that a lot of parents wanted to have a conversation with their children about alcohol, but didn't know where to start...or how to answer the tough questions. Dreading saying the wrong thing, some parents said nothing at all.

So we wanted to create a national day for parents to start speaking with their kids about alcohol - that's this Thursday. But more than that, we wanted to give parents the tools to protect their children from the dangers of drinking.

With the generous support of Nationwide Insurance, we developed the Power of Parents, It's Your Influence(TM) handbook, which is available free of charge online at
http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=ZDqRuZQkZkDt6YH8vW3p6g

This handbook, based on research from Dr. Robert Turrisi of Penn State University, can reduce your child's risk of drinking by up to 30 percent.
We also created free, half-hour workshops to help coach parents through this tough conversation. You can find one at http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=k4I_w0-m3kluG9vMCUDMGg

We could really use your help to expand the parent program this year; please consider a donation to help support Power of Parents at
http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=rbPoxaioh2XtorPNVK_rbA
Thank you for your support and please forward this to any parents you know who could use this vital information at
http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=2wTADV86J3PRtQbyzUHHuQ



Thank you,
Laura Dean-Mooney
MADD National President