Helpful websites: 

• Act For Youth
• Parent Further
• Search Institute/ Developmental Assets
• Aha! Parenting

Helpful websites:

• Livonia Save Our Youth (LSOY)
  • LSOY is a coalition with a mission to educate and empower the community regarding the health and safety of our young people with a focus on alcohol and other drugs. The coalition includes parents, teens, educators, health care workers, law enforcement, the faith community, and substance abuse professionals. All interested community members are welcome to join us. (Description taken from LSOY webpage)
• Substance Use Resources for Parents of Adolescents and Young Adults (from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine)
• Treatment Locator Find Treatment
• "Talk. They Hear You." Is a program from SAMSHA that includes an app to help parents practice having difficult conversations about drinking/drugs.

Tip sheets to help discuss this topic

•   Alcohol and other Drug Resources (For the PARENT)
  • This document is a collection of very helpful resources ranging from education to tipsheets to have conversations with your teen.
• Alcohol and other Drug Resources for TEEN
  • This tipsheet includes more teen friendly sites and resources.

Please know there is a great deal of misinformation out there about vaping/e-cigg. Please go straight to the source-- this page is from the Surgeon General

Parents Against Vaping/ E-Cigg  (PAVE) is an education and advocacy group, started by parents. 

Teen Mental Health (resource for parent) 

• This guide comes from MentalHealth.gov which is a division of the US Department of Heath & Human Services.  This is helpful to learn about warning signs, what to do, and how to talk with your teen.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

• NIMH is the lead federal agency for research on mental health disorders.

Please contact your student's counselor or SAP for further assistance related to mental health concerns.

Youth Assistance Programs

Both Livonia and Westland have "Youth Assistance Programs" which were developed as an alternative to the juvenile court system in order to prevent early involvement in the legal system for youth who are identified as at-risk or delinquent. 

Behaviors of concern may include: Curfew problems, poor grades, attendance issues, peer issues, home truancy, suspensions, legal involvement, incorrigible, substance use involvement. 

Services offered may include: Counseling, mentoring, classes, etc. Services are free and confidential.

Filing Incorrigibility

Incorribiiglity is defined as "the juvenile is repeatedly disobedient to the reasonable and lawful commands of his or her parents, guardian, or custodian, and the court finds on the record by clear and convincing evidence that court-accessed services are necessary."

If you feel your student would benefit from this level of intervention, please reach out to your counselor or SAP.

For information on filing incorrigilbity in Wayne County, please visit this website: Third Judicial Court Website

The "Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative" has some helpful documents that are worth checking out:

Cyberbullying Warning Signs

What to do if your child is cyber bullied

16 Appts that kids are turning to after Facebook

NetSmartz Workshop: A Program of the Center for Missing & Exploited Children provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children/teens ages 5-17 how to be safer on and offline

NetSmartz website

The LPS district webpage also has information on this topic:

Livonia Public Schools Homepage
Click on "Parents" tab, then "Resources" then "Internet Safety

The Wayne RESA Ready to Launch Career Counseling Team was created to support the career development programming of local high schools across Wayne County. Currently the team of 6 career counselors supports students in 28 high schools across Wayne County . They collaborate with high school counseling teams to ensure students have a clear starting point after graduation, wherever they are on their career path. The goal is to make sure students are informed about career opportunities, trends, training, resources, and local programming.  These experienced high school counselors support our students individually, in small groups, or in classroom presentations. They help students

·        Explore their career interests.

·        Make postsecondary and workforce connections

·        Create a detailed Action Plan for success

We were fortunate to have the counselors present an overview of their services during an April 2021 webinar. Click here to view a recording of this presentation! Thursdays to Thrive Careers the World of Work

Click here to view some of the resources that were shared:

Tips from "Careers and World of Work" Presentation