Program Information

What makes notMYkid different from other programs?

notMYkid provides a comprehensive approach to prevention by educating both adults and students. Not only do we educate about substance abuse, we supply families with effective, proactive solutions to substance abuse prevention.

Program Messages:

Private:  Having a drug test kit in a home fosters two-way communication between parent and child.  Using the kit as a discussion tool, the child becomes involved in the family’s drug prevention plan.

Proactive:  If the child is aware that there is a drug test kit in their home, he or she may be less likely to use drugs because there is a greater risk of being caught.  Periodic and random testing will reinforce this message.

Prevention: If a child does not want to use drugs, drug testing is a way to make sure that positive behavior continues. You and your child are on the same team. By having a drug test kit at home, the child is given a socially acceptable way to deflect the powerful and inevitable force of peer pressure. If friends ask them to try drugs, the child can say:  “I can’t do that, my parents drug test me and I’ll get caught”.

 What about trust?

A parent’s first reaction to drug testing their kids may be a strong concern about jeopardizing the trust they feel they have with their child.  Trust is something that is earned over time.  From the time children are young, parents establish rules and verify that the rules are followed.  For example, parents check their child’s report cards starting in kindergarten to make sure their child is successful academically.  As a child grows, parents continue to review their child’s report cards, even when their child tells them what to expect.  Kids don’t have an issue about their parents reviewing their report cards in middle school or high school because it’s a verification method that started when they were young.

Drug testing can be thought of as a report card or a verification method that shows how successfully a child is saying no to drugs.  Parents can monitor their child’s success with resisting drug use by using a home drug test kit.  Trust that a child is making good decisions about saying no to drugs during adolescence will be earned over time, and parents will continue to verify that their child is healthy and drug free.  Home drug testing is an essential drug prevention tool.

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