Family Life: DVDs & Videos
The "Benadryl Challenge"
The "Benadryl Challenge" has been in the headlines recently. A Partnership to End Addiction share what parents need to know about this trend and how to keep their loved ones safe. View this new video to help keep our youth safe.
Reshaping Your Story: Youth Voices on Healing and Change
By National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
This video offers real stories from youth affected by child welfare and parental substance use. Youth voices emphasize resilience, connection, and hope while also offering guidance for professionals on providing trauma-informed support.
Teen Substance Use Prevention: A Quick Parent Check-Up to Identify Risk & Build Resilience
As a parent, you want to do everything you can to support your child’s well-being. But with so many factors — school, friendships, family relationships, stress, mental health, even biology — it can be hard to know where to focus. Complete Partnership to End Addiction's Prevention Check-up.
Medication-Assisted Treatment and Common Misconceptions
The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare provides free resources to support professionals serving families affected by substance use and involved in child welfare. This video offers an in-depth look at MAT while addressing common misconceptions about the treatment. It highlights strategies that inform effective child welfare and court practices and addresses common misconceptions.
Mental Health and Substance Use: Co-Occurring Disorders Explained
If your teen or young adult is struggling, you may be wondering: Is this just a phase, or something more serious? In this video, we break down teen mental health and substance use, also known as co-occurring disorders. Learn how mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and ADHD can overlap with substance use and what warning signs families should not ignore. If you’re worried about your child, you’re not alone and there are effective treatment options available, including counseling, outpatient programs, support groups, and family-focused care.
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Your Questions Answered
Partnership to End Addiction has created a playlist of our newest videos that share simple tips for starting conversations, building trust, and helping teens make healthy decisions:
- What do I do when my kid is not open to having conversations about drugs?
- My children know I drank as a teenager. Is it hypocritical of me to tell them not to drink at the same age?
Every discussion helps strengthen your connection and reminds your teen that you're a trusted source of support and guidance. Take the time to read Having Tough Conversations - Partnership to End Addiction. Strengthen your skills and build a strong conservation with your teen!!
Teen Talks: Rising Through Grief
The Eluna Resource Center offers research-based educational and personalized support for addiction and grief. On May 12th, guided by youth mental health professional Jiggy Yoon, four courageous Camp Erin teens from across the country shared their deeply personal grief experiences. Alongside the youth reflections, they highlighted Camp Erin activities and traditions.
Operation Parent: Where Courageous Parenting Begins
Teen Substance Use Trends in 2026
Understanding what teen drug trends are emerging in 2026 can help parents and caregivers know what to look out for and how to talk to their teens about it. The substance landscape is constantly changing with new vaping products, high-potency marijuana, kratom, and psychedelic drugs. This video breaks down the latest teen substance use trends, what’s changed, what hasn’t, and how parents can protect their kids.
Why Every Year Counts: Delaying Teen Substance Use as Long as Possible
How Does Growing Up with an Alcoholic Parent Affect a Child?
In this video, you'll learn four powerful ways growing up with an alcoholic parent affects children emotionally and psychologically so you can recognize the patterns and behaviors.
The Martinsburg Initiative's 'Prevent. Build. Empower.'
All Hands on DEC
Resilience Video
Building resilience helps prepare kids for school and life! Resilience helps us bounce back when we fall down and keeps us going when times get tough. Building resilience skills in young children helps them face challenges with positivity and perseverance. Resilience involves a few key ingredients, including one that might surprise you. Sesame Street in Communities brings free video with furry Muppet friends as they help children and the adults in their lives reach their highest potential. Watch the short video to learn more. (R is for Resilience - YouTube).
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(Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization. The Workshop produces Sesame Street programs, including The Electric Company.)
Confident Parenting in Recovery DVD
Confident Parenting in Recovery, from Hazelden Publishing, offers advice and tools from educators, counselors, and parents who have unique perspectives because they too have struggled with the same parenting challenges in their recovery journey. Topics include:
- Discovering your parenting style
- Exploring stages of child development
- Setting limits
- Addressing trauma experienced by children of parents with addictions
- Teaching better behavior through motivational strategies
This DVD is ideal for a variety of settings including treatment centers, mental health centers, and correctional facilities. This video series can help those in early recovery overcome some of the basic challenges of recovery and increase their chances of living a healthy life.
The Words We Choose to Use
This animated video examines the language, patterns of thought, and messaging that can either hold back or support the vision for a system that focuses on strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Grief
Sesame Street in Communities brings free video content of everyone's favorite, furry Muppet friends as they help children and the adults in their lives reach their highest potential. Grover and the gang will tackle a variety of topics that face children in the areas of health and well-being, school readiness, and emotional well-being. Some of the content and topics presented are more sensitive, so you should preview these videos before sharing with a child.
Social Media & Your Child’s Mental Health: What the Research Says
Social media plays an important role in the lives of many tweens and teens. More than one-third (35%) of 13- 17-year-olds reported using social media sites such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook "almost constantly" in 2022. And while many social media platforms set a minimum age of 13 to sign up, 38% of kids ages 8-12 say they have used social media.
All this media use can influence young people in a variety of ways. And with a reported rise in depression and anxiety among teens, you may wonder how social media may impact your child's mental health. Research suggests it depends on how they use it. Understanding potential connections between social media and mental health can help you guide your kids toward healthy social media habits. Check this video out to learn more.