Pledge for Life Partnership
Piecing together a safer and healthier community
Printable Resources
Conversation Starters for Parents
Open and ongoing communication between you and your children is important to keeping a healthy relationship with them as they grow. Light, daily conversations about their lives and things that they are interested in help build and maintain trust for when more difficult topics arise. Check out this guide for conversation starters and tips for you and your child. (Click title for a full color pdf or here for a black and white pdf.)
Resilience
To parents and guardians, simple tips to help your child be more resilient.
Substance Use Prevention and Help
From the Illinois Drug Overdose Prevention Program: Naloxone is a medication that can block or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Anyone can easily use naloxone to save the life of someone overdosing on opioids, including heroin, fentanyl, or prescription medicines like OxyContin® or Percocet.
Local Substance use disorder treatment and human service organization in and around Kankakee County, Illinois.
Kankakee County Prescription for Prevention would like to ensure that every household in Kankakee County uses safe medication storage and disposal practices.
Underage Drinking Prevention Parent Communication Campaign Materials '24-'25
Below are pdf versions of our monthly distributed resources for parents or preteens and teens. If you would prefer jpeg files, please click here.
"Memorable Moments: What are They?" pdf
"Preparing for Moments." pdf
"Memorable Moments: How Can You Be Ready?" pdf
"Identifying a Moment." pdf
"Memorable Moments: The Follow-Up." pdf
"How do I Follow Up?" pdf
"Many Moments, Big Impact" pdf
"Never-ending Moments" pdf