08/10/2026
Back to School Tips for Danville/Boyle County Families:
• School success is an important contributor to kids’ mental health and feeling that they belong. Begin the year with a family commitment to making it a good year – Parents’ positivity “rubs off” on their kids.
• Three things you can do to lower your children’s risk for developing a Substance Use Disorder:
1) Have regular family meals together each week – the food you eat is not as important as the fact that you are together, each of you talking about your day;
2) Encourage each child to be part of something they really love, such as music, sports, art, volunteering. Focus on helping them know what they CAN do to be happy & cope with stress, rather than the oversimplified message, “Just Say NO to Drugs”.
3) Help them be part of the larger community – whether it be church, scouting, or other community groups. It really does “take a village” to raise healthy kids.
• Safely store all medications, alcohol, and substances like gummies away from children & pets. CBD gummies are not safe for children, but children may mistake them for candy.
• Safely store fi****ms away from children, and away from adults who are experiencing depression or cognitive impairment.
• For excellent information about how to talk with your kids about drugs that are currently on the street, try these 2 websites: Partnership to End Addiction, at www.drugfree.org; and Song for Charlie, at www.songforcharlie.org.
• If you are looking for current treatment beds in Kentucky for treatment of Substance Use Disorders, go to: www.FindHelpNowKY.org.
• For support in quitting smoking, call 1-800-QUITNOW, or the Boyle Co. Health Department for smoking cessation classes at 859-236-2053.
• If you’d like free Narcan (Naloxone) to reverse overdoses from opioids, call the Boyle County Health Department, at 859-236-2053, or get it free from a blue “Nalox box” around the county. Everyone should know how to administer narcan and save lives.
• Asking for help is a strength and a sign of resilience – Model that for your kids.
Information courtesy of the Boyle Co. Agency for Substance Abuse Policy, Inc.
The Partnership is focused on preventing and addressing substance use disorders by providing families, communities and professionals with practical knowledge they can trust to support young people at risk or struggling with addiction.
