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What Can I Do?

• Join ARCH and attend scheduled meetings
  
• Educate yourself about the extent and types of issues that are affecting youth in our community
  
• Know your child’s whereabouts
  
• Learn about efforts already under way to address substance abuse
  
• Endorse the ARCH Party Guidelines as a tool for you and your family
  
• Be a part of a public education campaign and raise public awareness about the issues youth face in our community
  
• Listen and talk with your child and others
  
• Volunteer your time to one or more of ARCH’s projects
  
• Promote positive peer influence
  
• Promote anti-drug social norms
  
• Establish consistent family rules and consequences
  
• Be a mentor to young people in our community
  
• Assure there are a variety of opportunities available for the youth to get involved
  
• Provide the skills that youth need to succeed
  
• Acknowledge youth achievements
  
• Welcome calls from other parents who are “checking out” their child’s social plans