Fact Sheets

Products for the Community

A Toolkit for Hispanic/Latino Community Groups

Order # PHD821

Description:

Asset-based bilingual 40-page guide to community involvement and empowerment. Convenient binder-ready format: 3-hole-punched paper with graphics and tabs.

Objectives

To inform individuals and community leaders how to mobilize communities around the issue of substance abuse.

Suggestions for use:

Community leaders can learn:

• Prevention facts and strategies
• Statistics on substance abuse and Latino youth
• How to mobilize Hispanic/Latino communities
• Where and how to get additional help and information.

Nuestro Orgullo Latino

Order # PHD819

Description:

Full-color Spanish-language pride poster for Hispanic/Latino families.

Objectives

Encourage cultural pride by building on traditional values and the naturally strong emphasis on interpersonal relationships.

Suggestions for use:

• Display in school classrooms, community or religious centers, clinics, markets, and organizations serving Hispanic families.
• Disseminate to families through the outlets above or at special events.
• Distribute at school during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Products for Parents

Grandma's Wisdom/Consejos de la Abuelita (bilingual)

Order # SOYGBK

Description:

41-page book of advice mothers of Latinas ages 9-15 that includes useful tips and positive messages about self-esteem and communication

Objectives:

To help mothers manage the following issues within themselves and in relationship to their daughters:

• Anger
• Guilt
• Depression
• Suicide
• Decision-making
• Resiliency
• Stress
• Self-esteem

Suggestions for use:

Distribution to mothers of daughters through:

• School and community events
• Counseling sessions
• Parents meeting/outreach
• English classes
• Citizenship classes
• Mother/daughter programs/events

Vamos a Jugar

Order # PHD820

Description:

Full-color 25-page Spanish-language activity book for Hispanic/Latino parents and children ages 3 and up.

Objectives

To encourage healthy habits, expressing feelings and emotions, and communication with parents about the child's health and body.

Suggestions for use:

• Disseminate to parents through school events and meetings.
• Use in Head Start, Healthy Start, or other early childhood education centers serving large proportion of Hispanic children.
• Use in school-based day care settings before and after school.

Hablemos en Confianza

Order # PHD818

Contains 9 Spanish-language materials:

• 5 brochures
• 3 photonovelas
• 1 double-sided poster

Description:

Full-color folder for Hispanic/Latino parents and caregivers of youth.

Objectives of the brochures:

To provide the skills needed to have open communication with children.

Objectives of the photonovelas:

To explain the importance of listening, observing and talking with your children honestly and clearly about alcohol and drug use.

Objectives of the 2-sided poster:

To encourage two way communication between parents and children and to provide information about the most commonly abused drugs.

Suggestions for use:

Service providers and educators who work with parents can us ethese materials to provide information about:

• Controlling anger so communication remains open.
• Helping children build and strengthen self-esteem, express feelings and emotions, and develop social skills.
• Helping children resist peer pressure, manage conflict, resolve problems and make decisions.
• Short- and long-term effects of the most commonly abused drugs as well as street names of those drugs.

Products for Young Adults

Title: The Girl that I Am / La Niña Que Soy (bilingual)

Order # SOYAB9

Description:

42-page activity book for 9-11 year old girls that addresses acculturation, family issues, conflicted feelings, peer pressure, and body image

Objectives:

To enhance resiliency, decision making, and assertiveness by:

• Providing effective tips to choose healthier lifestyles
• Promoting behaviors that enhance self-esteem and self-confidence
• Encourage girls to strive for their goals, seek help from those around them, chose friends who share the same values and goals, and motivate their peers to make healthy decisions

Suggestions for use:

Use activities to help girls to know themselves better, develop a better appreciation of their heritage and learn to make positive, healthy decisions for their future. Distribute to girls through:

• Lunch/recess groups
• After school groups
• Latino clubs
• Counseling groups
• Mother/daughter events
• Mentoring programs
• Sister circles
• Workshops or events

Use materials to guide development of new programs for Latino youth, for example:

• Counseling group
• Positive youth development group
• School-based support group

Who Am I? / ¿Quien Soy? (bilingual)

Order # SOYAB12

Description:

38-page activity book for 12-14 year old girls that addresses acculturation, family issues, bicultural conflicts, conflicted feelings, peer pressure, and body image

Objectives:

To enhance resiliency, decision making, and assertiveness by:

• Providing effective tips to choose healthier lifestyles
• Promoting behaviors that enhance self-esteem and self-confidence
• Encourage girls to strive for their goals, seek help from those around them, chose friends who share the same values and goals, and motivate their peers to make healthy decisions

Suggestions for use:

Use activities to help girls to know themselves better, develop a better appreciation of their heritage and learn to make positive, healthy decisions for their future. Distribute to girls through:

• Lunch/recess groups
• After school groups
• Latino clubs
• Counseling groups
• Mother/daughter events
• Mentoring programs
• Sister circles
• Workshops or events

Use materials to guide development of new programs for Latino youth, for example:

• Counseling group
• Positive youth development group
• School-based support group

Title: Hot Air Balloon Poster

Order # SOYBP

Description:

Poster for 12-14 year old Latina girls that features four girls holding hands and a hot air balloon

Objectives:

To enhance resiliency, decision-making, and assertiveness by encouraging girls to:

• Strive for their goals
• Believe they can reach their goals
• Seek support from others

Suggestions for use:

• Disseminate to Latina girls ages 12-14 through school and community events
• Display in school classrooms, community or religious centers, juvenile detention centers, youth clubs, clinics, and organizations serving Hispanic youth
• Use the graphic image and text message to spur group discussion

Title: Rainbow Road Poster

Order # SOYRP

Description:

Poster for 9-11 year olds that features a young girl on her way to school and on the road to a positive, happy future

Objectives:

• Increase understand about navigating 2 worlds
• Identify the positive aspects of each culture
• Associate bicultural identity with a brighter future, respect, and self-determination

Suggestions for use:

• Disseminate to Latina girls ages 9-11 through school and community events
• Display in school classrooms, community or religious centers, youth clubs, clinics, and organizations
• Use the graphic image and text message to spur group discussion
• Use the messages in the text as group statements or methods
• Use the messages in the text on certificates of participation or graduation from group