Safe Home

The safe home concept is a commitment that we as parents make to our young people to provide a place where they can have fun in a drug, smoke and alcohol free environment. Our children are left with the responsibility of saying "no" to the peer norm of drug and alcohol use. Despite a commitment some of our young people have made to be drug and alcohol free, they are faced with the responsibility of saying "no" at social gatherings. Let us support their commitment of not using drugs by providing a place where our children can party in a drug free environment.

We now have the knowledge that the younger our children are when they start drinking and/or using mind-altering drugs, the higher the possibility of addiction.
We also know that the so-called safe drugs such as marijuana are not so safe and can have long term consequences to their health and mental abilities. As teens, our children still have developmental tasks to accomplish. They need to start cementing the principles that will govern their lives as young adults and future leaders. Mind-altering drugs interfere with the clearness of purpose and evaluation that this requires. They interfere with a very important and final task that our children have to accomplish.

By setting up our homes as "safe homes" we make a commitment to our children, our children's friends and their parents that any parties, get-togethers, and sleepovers will be appropriately supervised and drugs or alcohol will not be allowed. Appropriate supervision means that we will be present and visible at parties to ensure that no alcohol and drugs are being used and that the ratio of adult supervisors to children will be adequate to accomplish that goal.

Please join the "Safe Home Program" to support and send a clear message to our teens that we are interested and committed to their healthy development. If you would like to participate in this program, please print out and complete the signup form and deliver it to the St. Gregory office.

It is not the intention of the St. Gregory Family Association to approve or disprove of student gatherings based on parent membership in the Safe home Program. The intent of the program is to make parents conscious of the dangers of alcohol and drug use among our children and to elicit parental support in eliminating this use in our homes.