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How You Can Celebrate Family Day
Be a Family Day STAR!
Spend time with your kids by having dinner together.
Talk to them about their friends, interests, and the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Answer their questions and listen to what they say.
Recognize that YOU have the power to keep your kids substance-free!
- Family Day resources for parishes
- Host a special potluck dinner or other family friendly event on or leading up to Family Day. You could also consider partnering with other community groups, local leaders, or businesses to host a combined Family Day event at a family friendly site in your neighborhood
- Write about Family Day and the importance of family dinners in your bulletin, newsletter, or other publications and mention Family Day in your homily on Sunday, September 21.
- Link to www.CASAFamilyDay.org from your website
- Order Family Day brochures, posters, and magnets to distribute to parents.
- Article: “Family Meals Have Greater Protective Effect on Girls” (July 23, 2008), from “Join Together”
- Article: “Family Meals Translate Into Knowing ‘What’s Up’ (by Dan Sarell, September 2006)
* Family Day is a registered trademark of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA)
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