Pledge for Life Partnership
Piecing together a safer and healthier community
Printable Resources for Wellness and
Substance Prevention
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.)
Mental Health and Wellness
While we build up our online Mental Health and Wellness resource library, please visit Mental Health America's website for helpful resources regarding bullying, caring for aging parents, early intervention, single parenting, youth mental health and much more. Need assistance, please visit our human resource directory for direct links to local human services.
Resilience
To parents and guardians, simple tips to help your child be more resilient.
Substance Use Prevention and Help
Fentanyl continues to impact families and communities across the country, with counterfeit pills and hidden exposure remaining major risks for teens and young adults. Learn the latest statistics, warning signs, and prevention information in our full Fentanyl Awareness Fact Sheet.
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.
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®. See this flier to help discern overdose symptoms.
Equip yourself with information, tips and resources regarding cough medicine abuse.
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.
Learn which medicines contain DXM (dextromethorphan), and discover more information regarding DXM safety.
Underage Drinking Prevention Parent Communication Campaign Materials '25-'26
Below are pdf versions of our monthly distributed resources for parents or preteens and teens. If you would prefer jpeg files, please click here.
"Be open, honest, and straightforward." pdf
"Earbuds out. Phone down. T.V. on mute." pdf
"You have the power." pdf
"Your teens have information from friends." pdf
"Your teens have information from friends." pdf