Digital Awareness for Parents

The digital world is constantly evolving with new social media platforms, apps, and devices, and children and teens are often the first to use them. Some negative things that may occur include cyberbullying, sexting, posting hateful messages or content, and participating in negative group conversations. If your child posts harmful or negative content online, it may not only harm other children; it can affect their online reputation, which can have negative implications for their employment or college admission.

While you may not be able to monitor all of your child’s activities, there are things you can do to prevent cyberbullying and protect your child from harmful digital behavior:

  • Review or re-set your child’s phone location and privacy settings.
  • Know your child’s user names and passwords for email and social media.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

SAMHSA offers a comprehensive list of resources for parents regarding underage drinking. This campaign is called, Talk; They Hear You.

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Planning, implementing, and evaluating programs

Strategic Prevention FrameworkBetter Brodhead follows the Strategic Prevention Framework to identify issues, build the capacity to address those issues, plan and implement prevention activities with community partners and evaluate the impact our work has had.

The Strengthening Families Program is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for all families. This evidence-based program has been found to significantly improve parenting skills and family relationships, and improves social competencies and school performance in children.

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Parents Who Host Lose The Most

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During prom season for high schoolers, we are aware that some parents may host parties that include alcohol for the teens.

Why is this bad for their child or young adult? The human brains goes through three major growth spurts during a lifetime. If alcohol is consumed before the third and final growth spurt (during the teen years and into young adulthood) it can cause changes in the structure and function of the brain.

Compared to the adult brain, the teen brain reacts differently to alcohol. Drinking alcohol can damage the frontal lobes of the brain forever. The age when a person first consumes alcohol strongly predicts the developments of a lifelong addiction to alcohol.

Children who begin drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to develop problems with alcohol than those who start drinking alcohol after age 21. These changes in the brain can impact decision making, personality, memory and learning.

Adults will be given fines and time in jail and will be held liable if they are caught serving or giving alcohol to a minor.

P3 Anonymous Crime Reporting App

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Better Brodhead is collaborating with Green County Crime Stoppers to promote a new and improved way to report crimes.

For emergencies, callers should use 911.


Tips were previously accepted as SMS text messages using a short code and a dedicated keyword. Green County Crime Stoppers will now be accepting tips by phone, the web, and by way of the new, free P3 Tips mobile app available on the iOS and Android platforms, greatly enhancing the mobile tip submission process. Still completely anonymous, tips submitted through the P3 mobile app, unlike SMS text tips, have no length limitations and allow images, video, and documents to be uploaded with the tip. Anderson Software’s sophisticated encryption processes obscure any and all identifying information and provide assured anonymity for tipsters.

