Library Resources
The following reading resources are available for loan from PASAGE Saint John.
To borrow them contact us or drop into our office at
61 Union Street, Suite 1210
Saint John, NB.
Books and Reading Material
ADHD: Does My Child Have It?
ADHD stands for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.”
All Together Now
How families are affected by depression and manic depression.
This booklet was written to help families live with affective disorders. Some of these suggestions may be helpful in your family, or you may just feel better knowing that someone else understands what you’re going through.
Author: Health Canada
Drug Safety – The Choice is Yours
This book is designed for children ten years and older. It gives a realistic look at drug abuse. This book has many different techniques to saying no to drugs and alcohol. It contains real life stories about children who found out the hard way that drugs are dangerous to use. There is a section for parents on how to deal with substance use. There is also a quiz at the back to see how much you know about drugs and alcohol. There are two books; one is an instructor’s guide and the other is the actual book.
Author: Gateway Safety Net Publications
Get Out Of My Life … but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall?
This is a guide to adolescents, how to understand them, cope with them, and, to the extent that we can, direct their turbulent lives. It does not offer a set of teenage parenting rules, it does provide concrete suggestions on how to deal with a wide range of teenage issues. With a new understanding of teenage psychological development and state of mind, you may find things are never quite the same again. You may discover things look differently, more like the inevitable interaction between a normal developing teenager and a caring parent. You will find you act differently as well.
Author: Anthony E. Wolfe, Ph.D.
How To Deal With Your Acting Up Teenager
Practical Self Help for Desperate Parents
The main contribution in this book is to encourage parents to see the present trouble with their kids not so much as evidence of a bad or mistaken kid, but as a pressure upon them to expand and change, and a chance to do so. It is possible to welcome problems as a challenge of their lives, not their kid’s. Spend a few evenings reading this book- the text, the exercises, examples and all to get a general feeling of hopefulness, ease and a sense that things will be alright. Then start again at the beginning and working through the book each step in turn. They need to build a background based on the earlier portion of the book. Feel good about what they can do and by reading this book they become a little more themselves, and a little more able to change.
Author: Robert T. Bayard PHD and Jean Bayard, PHD
Inside the Adolescent Alcoholic
The behavior of an adolescent who is dependent upon alcohol is often mystifying to parents and other adults. This book provides adults with the knowledge and understanding necessary to deal effectively with adolescent alcoholics.
Author: Ann Marie Krupski
Kids Drugs and Booze
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS
There’s a crisis among today’s kids: a majority of teenagers will use or experiment with drugs during their high school years.
This book includes:
- How to recognize signs and symptoms of drug use;
- How to engage your children in constructive discussions about the problem;
- How and when to impose discipline, and when to be flexible;
- The role of siblings and other family members in solving teenage drug abuse;
- How to penetrate kids denial and evasive tactics;
- How to deal with relapses and partial recovery;
- The underlying emotional causes of drug abuse; and
- How parents can maintain equilibrium in their own lives.
Parents, Teens and Boundaries
How to Draw the Line
Most parents don’t know how to draw the line. Testing their limits is how teenagers grow and learn. These practical strategies for boundary setting can teach parents how to avoid conflict, resolve problems and establish the foundation for mutual love and respect. As a result of learning to set healthy boundaries, parents may even begin to enjoy their children’s teen years.
Author: Jane Blue Stein, PHD
Setting Limits
The realities to which people refer when they use the words “ drug abuse” have nothing to do with abusing or hurting some chemical substance called a drug. People use the words to refer to the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual injuries to people that accompany the inappropriate use of drugs. People suffer from abuse – the users and those around them. Parents and families struggle and often suffer while they attempt to understand and cope with behaviours so foreign to their experience.
Author: William L. LaFountain
The Nine Most Troublesome Teenage Problems and How to Solve Them
When Adolescents begin screaming or withdrawing, exhibiting antisocial behavior or acting irresponsibly, it is a way of communicating- and parents must learn to listen. This book explores in an easy to follow format the nine most common problems that parents encounter with teenage children- and solutions that work. It is designed to teach parents not only how to listen, but to love and grow as we cope with the teenage years- and to raise kids we can be proud of.
Author: Lawrence Bauman, PHD, with Robert Riche
Safe Wheels For Native Youth Program
A Primary Prevention and Health Promotion Program
Author: NECHI
WAY TO BE- How to organize a drug prevention youth group
Author: N/A
Children of Alcoholics- It will Never Happen to Me
Why are the children of alcoholics more likely to become alcoholic? Or marry an alcoholic? What kinds of problems do they face in adulthood as a result of their childhood experiences? What can we do to help adults who grew up in alcoholic homes- or are now involved with others who did- and want to understand their childhoods and restructure their lives?
This “little green book”, as it has come be known to hundreds of thousands of COA’s and ACOA’s will help answer those questions. It is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what the y can do to break the pattern of destruction.
Author: Claudia Black
Beyond Codependency And Getting better All the Time
Grow in recovery from codependence. Personal stories, reflections, and suggested activities from Melody Beattie show you how. Melody stresses the importance of healthy communication and teaches you the skills needed. She also reassures you that slipping back into codependent behaviours doesn’t have to stop recovery either, she describes how these “recycling” times can be used to learn more about yourself.
Author: Melody Beattie
Identification and Care of Fetal Alcohol Exposed Children
A Guide For Primary Care Providers
This guide provides clinicians with office based screening and intervention Protocols for the detections of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome FAS, alcohol related birth defects, and alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorder. The goal of this guide is to increase clinician recognition and appropriate care of children adversely affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol, including referrals to and networking with appropriate specialists and family support services. The strategies presented are designed to be incorporated into a busy primary care practice.
Author: Nation Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Office of Research of Minority Health National Institutes of Health
Personal Steps to A Healthy Choice: A Woman’s Guide
If you are drinking too much, this booklet suggests steps you can take to cut down or quit in order to improve your life and health. It is important that you and your doctor or other health care professional work together; do not try these steps by yourself. For alcohol dependent women (“Alcoholic” women) , women who are pregnant, and women with certain medical conditions, the goal is no drinking at all.
Author: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Office of Research on Minority Health
Because Life Goes On: Helping Children and Youth Live With Separation and Divorce
This book is intended to reach out to Canadian families in need of information and resources to help their children to live through the process of separation and divorce. This booklet is also designed to assist professionals in such fields as social services, health, justice and education, in their work with children and parents.
Author: Health Canada
Best Practices treatment and Rehabilitation for Women with Substance Use Problems
This report identifies elements of best practice in the treatment and rehabilitation of women with substance use problems. Best practices are identified and described in the areas of : client outreach, contact and engagement, treatment principles, specific approaches and methods, client retention in treatment, treatment organization and duration, delivery of adjunctive services, and measurement of treatment effectiveness. Recommendations for best practices are based on the results of interviews with forty key experts an review of current literature related to these topic areas. Interviews with key experts and the review of literature also addressed barriers to treatment for women.
Author: Health Canada – Canada’s Drug Strategy ( Janet C. Currie, FOCUS Consultants)
BEST PRACTICES Treatment and Rehabilitation for Youth with Substance Use Problems
This report identifies elements of best practices in the treatment and rehabilitation of youth with substance use problems. Best practices are identified and described in the areas of client outreach, contact and engagement, retention of clients in treatment, overall treatment values/philosophy, specific approaches and methods, relapse prevention, structure of treatment, and integration of relevant support services. Recommendations for best practices are based on the results of interviews with thirty three key experts and a review of current literature related to these topic areas. The report also addresses barriers to treatment affecting the youth population.
Situational Analysis – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Syndrome/ Fetal Alcohol Effects and the Effects of Other Substance Use During Pregnancy
The effects from alcohol use during pregnancy vary with the timing, amount and duration of alcohol consumption, the general health of the mother and the resource available, but can result in FAS/ FAE. Epidemiological research into FAS FAE is incomplete , but the associated human and economic costs are significant and lifelong, as it is a leading cause of mental disability and preventable birth defects.
The effects of other substances e.g. cannabis, opiates, inhalants, etc., during pregnancy are less well understood but thought nonetheless to be significant. These effects also vary with the manner of use and the health and social circumstances of the mother.
Author: Health Canada- Canada’s Drug Strategy (Carole Legge, Gary Roberts and Mollie Butler)
Answers About Your Long Acting Medication
This booklet will focus directly on long acting, inject able anti psychotic medications. These drugs are also known as depot neuroleptics and are used in Canada and the United States for treatment of psychotic disorders, particularly schizophrenia. This booklet is designed to answer questions about long acting depot neuroleptics their use side effects and methods of administration. It is intended to be used by patients, their families and interested professionals.
Author: Squibb Canada
How to Talk About Alcohol
A program for parent of preteens.
Throughout history, cultures around the world have celebrated and socialized with different sorts of beverage alcohol. This program is for parents of preteens and is designed to help parents become more responsive to their children on issues regarding alcohol, more persuasive in communicating their values and expectations, and more effective in teaching their children to handle difficult situations.
Author: Seagram Canada
Knowledge Is The Best Medicine Resource Kit & Planning Guide
This guide gives you everything you need to organize and run a workshop- from check lists and tips on event logistics, to comprehensive teaching notes, presentation aids and hand out materials.
Author: Canada’s Research Based Pharmaceutical Companies
Cocaine Use
Recommendation in the Treatment and Rehabilitation
In Canada the increasing rates of Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS and overdose deaths have been associated with cocaine use among people who inject drugs, particularly in Vancouver and other large urban centers. The purpose of this report is to promote the use of effective interventions by providing information on cocaine and its effects, and identifying best practices in treatment and rehabilitation for individuals with cocaine-use problems. Issues of accessibility to treatment for different population groups are not covered in this report, since they are addressed in other Health Canada reports on best practices, for example, Best-Practices-Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation (Health Canada, 1999).
Author: Health Canada-Canada’s Drug Strategy (G. Ron Norton, Ph.D., Michael Weinrath, Ph.D., and Michel Bonin)
MindCare-Collection Catalog
The book and videos listed here are available from all branches of the Saint John Regional Library.
Author: MINDCARE New Brunswick Foundation
BEST PRACTICES: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/ Fetal Alcohol Effects and The Effects of Other Substance Use During Pregnancy
The effects from alcohol use during pregnancy vary with the timing, amount and duration of alcohol consumption, the general health of the mother and the resources available. Epidemiological research into FAS/ FAE is incomplete, but the associated human and economic costs are significant and lifelong, as it is a leading cause of mental disability and preventable birth defects.
The effects of other substance use during pregnancy are less well understood but thought nonetheless to be significant. These effects also vary with the manner of use, and the health and social circumstances of the mother.
Author: Health Canada – Canada’s Drug Strategy ( Gary Roberts and Jo Nanson)
Painkiller: Oxycontin – Along with Abuse
Information Package
Embalming Fluid: A New High
Information Package
Designer Drugs
Information Package
Ban on Cigarettes: Labeled Mild, Light
Information Package
Hepatitis C
Information Package
Hepatitis B & C:
Information Package
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Author: Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D
Beyond Codependency
This book is for the recovering adult children and codependents. May we each awaken to the beauty of ourselves, other people and life.
Author: Melody Beattie
Codependent No More
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself
Codependents have great insights into others, but can’t see themselves. They don’t know what they are feeling, are not sure what they think. They also don’t know what they can do to solve their problems- if they have problems. They know they feel miserable, can’t understand why their life isn’t working.
This book is about our most important and probably most neglected responsibility; taking care of ourselves. It’s about what we can do to start feeling better.
Author: Melody Beattie
Creating Love
This is written for everyone who as struggled with painful relationships and who is seeking hope and a new direction.
Author: John Bradshaw
The Family: A revolutionary Way of Self Discovery
This book is based on the television series of the same name. The author focuses on the dynamics of the family, how the rules and attitudes learned while growing up become encoded within each family member. The unhealthy rules we are now living by are handed down from one generation to another and ultimately to society at large. We are guided out of our dysfunction to wholeness and taught that bad beginnings can be remedied. We can be healed as individuals and as we heal we heal the world.
Author: John Bradshaw
The Forum
The international monthly journal of Al ANON
Articles from members present their personal views and experiences. Opinion expressed are not to be attributed to Al Anon as a whole.
Focus on Bullying
A great prevention program for elementary school communities. This book offers great techniques to deal with bullying as well as education on the nature of bullying and the right way to respond to such situations.
Author: British Columbia – Ministry of Education, Ministry of Attorney General
Getting Better Inside Alcoholics Anonymous
An intense personal commitment as well as professional skills tells the story of the author’s own struggle with alcoholism and the journey to recovery.
Author: Nan Robertson
Go For It!
How to win at Love, Work, and Play
Author: Dr. Irene C. Kassorla
Healing The Shame That Binds
Shame is one of the major destructive forces in all human life. In naming toxic shame the author shows how it is the core problem in our compulsions, co dependencies, addictions and the drive to super achieve, resulting in the breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives.
Author: John Bradshaw
Homecoming
Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
Author: John Bradshaw
The Language of Letting Go
The author integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in this unique daily meditation book, inspiring us to understand our own recovery process. Letting ourselves feel all our emotions, accepting powerlessness and owning our own power and the need to stay focused on recovery principles. Each day is an opportunity for growth and renewal.
Author: Melody Beattiew
Living, Loving and Learning
This inspirational treasure is for all those eager to accept the challenge of life and to profit from the wonder of love
Author: Leo Buscaglia PHD
Love You Forever
Is a Book that both children and adults will enjoy – over and over gain.
Author: Robert Munsch
The Magic of Thinking Big
A unique way to magnify your thinking patterns and achieve the things you want.
Author: David J. Schwartz
The Magic of Thinking Big
A life saving guide that answers all questions and concerns of recovering alcoholics and addicts. With special sections on : Family Relationships; AA and other support groups; Making love; Non drug medical treatments; Work and money issues.
Author: Al J. Mooney MD Arlene Eisenberg, Howard Eisenberg
The Return of The Rag picker
For the rest of my life are two days that will never again trouble me.
Author: OG Mandino
Simplify Your Life
100 ways to slow down and really enjoy the things that matter.
Author: Elaine St. James
Your Perfect Right
This book is for all who wish to develop a more personal existence and for those who will be instrumental in facilitating the personal growth of others. It is aimed both at a general audience and those who are engaged in or training for professional therapeutic or behavior modifying roles. It strikes at the roots of low self esteem, and how we learn assertive behaviours for ourselves.
Author: Roberte E. Alberti PhD. & Michael L. Emmons, PhD.
Mac’s Choice and Flyer
A story about Choices and Drug Use.
AUTHOR: Debra L. Wert
Mac’s Choice Workbook
A story about Choices and Drug Use.
AUTHOR: Debra L. Wert
Mac’s Choice Teacher’s Guide:
A story about Choices and Drug Use.
Together read the book and complete the work book. Help young people make the smart choice to say “NO” to drugs.
My Dad has HIV
A story about understanding and confronting HIV.
AUTHOR: Earl Alexander, Sheila Rudin, Pam Sejkora
Sense and Nonsense
Healthy Choices About Alcohol , Drugs, and Gambling.
Sense and Nonsense is a curriculum resource to educate children in grades four, five, and six about issues around alcohol and drug use as well as gambling. Each manual is grade specific and designed to help teachers present factual information about drugs like medications, caffeine, tobacco products, and alcohol, as well as lifestyle choices and information on gambling so that students will be able to make sound decisions about their use of these products in the present and the future.
VERSIONS: Book #1= Grade 4, Book #2= Grade 5, Book #3= Grade 6
AUTHOR: AADAC
BEST PRACTICES: Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
1. Inventory
2. Manual
The purpose of this project is to identify best practices related to concurrent mental health and substance use disorders. The project was initiated by Health Canada as a part of a research agenda developed by the Federal Provincial Territorial Committee on Alcohol and Other Drug Issues.
Choices and Consequences
What to do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
This book describes what you can do to help a teenager who is using alcohol or other drugs. It describes a process called intervention that has been proven effective for over thirty years. It tells you precisely how to use this process to stop a teenager’s harmful involvement with chemicals and start him or her on the road to a richer, fuller, healthier life. By making it clear that continues use will lead to certain fixed and inflexible outcomes, you can help a teenager WANT and CHOOSE to stop using. And that is the key.
AUTHOR: Dick Schaefer
Losing Your Shirt Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers and their Families
In the hands of family members in need, this book can begin the road to health and recovery for those unaware of their gambling concerns and, equally important, keep families struggling with abstinence on the road to recovery.
This book provides:
- help for the marriage of compulsive gamblers;
- ways to help end the compulsive gambling habit;
- ways to help those affected by loved ones who gamble compulsively; and
- stories from compulsive gamblers and their families.
AUTHOR: Author: Mary Heineman C.S.W., C.A.C.
Pros & Cons
Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN)
A guide to creating successful community-based HIV/AIDS programs for prisoners.
AUTHOR: Rick Lines
Tough Love Solutions
New guide on firm but, loving methods have created dramatic, and happy solutions for families throughout the US and Canada torn apart by “impossible” adolescent behavior.
AUTHOR: Phyllis York, David York, Ted Wachtel
Know the Facts About Drug Testing
One Test You Don’t Want To Fail – Thinking About Drug Testing.
The chance for youth to be given a drug test is more probable now than ever before. Parents are being given home testing kits, police and community groups offer testing clinics, some workplaces require it, and schools have the right to test a greater percentage of the student body: including competitive after-school activities. It’s not just the athletes who get tested-members of the debate team, students who sing in the choir are examples.. This impacts the majority of middle and high school students. There are many different types of testing methods. Check it out.
AUTHOR: Forrea (http://www.forreal.org/know/drugtesting.asp)
Drugs Pick and Choose Activities
A good resource in drug education. This book offers a wealth of creative and meaningful activities related to drug abuse education. These lively activities allow children to learn about drugs while having fun.
AUTHOR: : Kenneth A. Briggs, EdD, and Peter D. Steiner, MS
Nitrous Oxide, The Brain Chart, The Heart Chart
Preventing Substance use Problems Among Young People
Best Practices-Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Treatment and Rehabilitation for Seniors with Substance Use Problems
Videos
The following video resources are available for loan from PASAGE Saint John. To borrow them
contact us or drop into our office at 61 Union Street, Suite 1210, Saint John, NB.
Faces of Reality
The making of an anti-substance abuse commercial and discussion among 4 teen addicts is filmed. The purpose of the documentary is to create a commercial that will carry a message to other youth, while sharing their personal experiences.
PRODUCED BY: AADAC, 23 minutes
Tears for April; Beyond the Blue Lense
The second part to Beyond the Blue Lense, featuring Vancouver’s drug infested, downtown east side. This film focuses on a group of Police officers and their struggle to help local addicts. Several addicts are followed during different stages of their lives.
PRODUCED BY: ODD Squad Productions
Smoking Stinks
A song and story for young children about the dangers of smoking.
PRODUCED BY: Hazelden, 7 minutes
Prevention Television
A unique presentation of facts about alcohol, drugs and tobacco. The message is delivered through game shows, talk shows, video games and interviews with kids. Perfect for grades three to five.
PRODUCED BY: Hazelden, 15 minutes
Smoke Free TV
An upbeat, educational video discussing the health risks of smoking. Intended for fifth through eighth grade.
PRODUCED BY: Hazelden, 20 minutes
Scathed
An honest look at crystal meth through the eyes of teenage users.
PRODUCED BY: ODD Squad Productions, 26 minutes
The 6 Pillars of Character; Fairness
The Popcorn Park Puppets help kids explore character virtues. This video, intended for kindergarten through grade five, focuses on being fair to everybody.
PRODUCED BY: Elkind + Sweet Communications Incorporated
Faces of Addiction
Three distinctive documentaries focusing on substance abuse in America.
A) FLASHBACK: About young people and parents dealing with stages of addiction (i.e. move from taking drugs to needing drugs and finally rehab.
B) 27th PROSPECT: Community comes together in their fight against drugs and violence. The Community comes together to mourn loved ones and to pray for and end to violence through community involvement.
C) ADDICTED: No matter the addiction (tobacco, alcohol, street drugs etc.) the end result is still life. Substance abuse kills over half million Americans each year, which makes it the largest preventable cause of death.
PRODUCED BY: US Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 34 minutes
Educate: Creating Inhalant Abuse Awareness Together
The consequences on using can be deadly. Death is not always the end result but major health problems can also be associated with inhalant abuse such as bone marrow, liver and kidney damage and even brain damage.
PRODUCED BY: SC Johnson, USA 16 minutes
Knowledge is the Best Medicine
Drug interactions are common because individuals are not knowledgeable about the medicine they take. the keys to proper medication use is to take charge of your own health which means taking charge of your medications through asking questions and understanding answers from your doctor and pharmacists, understand directions, exercising and eating right. Live a healthier life
PRODUCED BY: Canadian, 17 minutes
Flipping the World: Drugs
A group of teenagers in Vancouver meet with members of the Odd Squad to observe drug addicts. The teenagers have a different perspective after listening to their stories. The teenagers also talk about their own drug addiction which they have overcome. The teenagers are more understanding towards the drug addicts.
PRODUCED BY: C 2000 National Film Board of Canada, 30 minutes
Chasing Away Rain Clouds
Youth talk candidly about many of the issues kids face in their day to day lives, like drugs and drinking, boredom, peer pressure, lack of skills and opportunities and poverty. They offer insights into why some youth get into trouble, how to make punishments meaningful, and the kinds of support that might help kids stay out of trouble.
PRODUCED BY: C 2000 Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick, 11 minutes, 2 videos one in English and one in French
Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue
Stars of television’s cartoon line up show a teenager the dangers he faces from his drug use. His sister is worried about her brother using drugs and wants to tell their parents. The teenager ends up taking a bad trip. this video will be extremely useful for elementary age children. Characters include: Alf, Garfield, Huey Dewey, Louie, Winnie the Pooh, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
PRODUCED BY: Buena Vista Home c 1990. 1 video cassette, 30 minutes
Clean Points – Tips on Hepatitis C
In this unique addition to the Harm Reduction toolbox, current and former injection drug users open up about living with Hep C. For years, injection drug users have been living with Hepatitis C, and while they are at risk, they are also finding positive ways to cope. In this video, idu’s talk about the day-to-day realities of Hep C, offering ideas for prevention and support. Both candid and accessible, Clean Points is a valuable resource to be shared by other Harm Reduction Programs.
Company of Women on the Screen Inc, c 2002 A Street Works Production. 1 videocassette, 15 minutes
After the Beep
The Responsible Gambling Council (Ontario) presents a drama about youth gambling. Adolescents gamble. They gamble more than you think. Six recent studies conducted across North America confirm that adolescent gambling is increasing. Even still, most students do not understand – or fail to recognize – the signs of problem gambling.
2 video cassette3, 20 minutes
Children of Alcohol
Living with a parent who drinks too much. One in six families deal with alcoholism. These kids realize that they come second and the blame themselves. There are many cities where alcoholism is a fact of life and the children of these families need to talk to others that deal with the same problem. Small groups of children get together and talk about their own situations at home living with a parent or parents who are alcoholics.
PRODUCED BY: National Film Board of Canada. 1 video cassette, 18:10 minutes
The Gateway Drugs Action Pack
These four upbeat videos highlight the extremely negative effects of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and inhalants. Using songs, quizzes, and fun animations, these videos warn kids of the dangers of these drugs. Kids are entertained as well as informed.
- What’s Wrong with Tobacco?
- What’s Wrong with Alcohol?
- What’s Wrong with Inhalants?
- What’s Wrong with Marijuana?
PRODUCED BY: Human Relations Media. 4 video cassettes, 14-20 minutes each
Sooper Puppy: Drink, Drank, Drunk
Baxter, a.k.a. Sooper Puppy, makes the mistake of going to a party where the punch is “spiked”. When he wakes up with a hangover the next day, Grandpaw teaches him about the negative effects alcohol can have. When asked to go to another party, Baxter makes the right decision by saying no. Using delightful puppets and animation, this film teaches children, aged K-3, about the harmful effects of alcohol.
PRODUCED BY: The Phoenix Learning Group. 1 video cassette, 16 minutes
Sooper Puppy: The Puff of Smoke
Baxter a.k.a. Sooper Puppy is confused when he sees smoke coming from a hole in his backyard. He soon discovers that his friend, Big John, has a smoking problem, and with Grandpaw’s help, he is able to help Big John quick. Using delightful puppets and animation, this film teaches children, aged K-3 about the harmful effects of smoking and addiction.
PRODUCED BY: The Phoenix Learning Group. 1 video cassette, 16 minutes
Safety Kids Play It Smart: Stay Safe From Drugs
The five characters in this film make it cool to be drug-free. Through songs, dancing and dialogue; the film covers five main “Play It Smart Safety Rules” when it comes to drugs. The film focuses not only on the adverse effects of drug use and abuse but also on emotional aspects such as self esteem and love.
PRODUCED BY: Brite Video Kids (Janeen Brady) 1 video cassette, 27:05 minutes
Donnie Dinosaur’s Tobacco Trouble
Children learn along characters with Sandy and Milo about the dangers of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in this upbeat film. Donnie Dinosaur teaches children about the negative effects of smoking and second-hand smoke, tobacco company advertising, and how to resist pressure from peers to smoke. Lively songs and playful puppets make this film both enjoyable and educational for children ages K-3.
PRODUCED BY: Syndistar, Inc. 1 video cassette, 12 minutes
No-Puff Pals vs. Big Tobacco Inc.
Animated super heroes, The No-Puff Pals, help children learn about the pressures that tobacco advertisers impose on children. This film instills the message that all children have No-Puff Power which allows them to say no to cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. For children ages K-3.
PRODUCED BY: Syndistar, Inc. 1 video cassette, 12 minutes