Glenbard to present May 4 webinar on 'Addiction Inoculation'

The Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families, in partnership with College of DuPage, will present "Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence." Watch the webinar at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, for this book launch event with best-selling author Jessica Lahey.

Go to www.glenbardgps.org for the link. Questions may be submitted to gilda_ross@glenbard.org prior to the event.

To be placed on a reminder list for Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families events, send an email to gilda_ross@glenbard.org.

Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse and dealt with her own struggles for many years. She was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teen drug addiction is the nation's largest preventable and costly health problem.

Lahey's presentation is a comprehensive guide that can be used to reduce the risk of substance abuse in children. She will share evidence-based strategies and offer tools based on research in child welfare, psychology, substance abuse and developmental neuroscience. Lahey helps adults understand, support and educate young people in a way that helps mold resilient and addiction-resistant children.

A community conversation will follow the event with Glenbard Assistant Superintendent for Student Services Janet Cook.

In addition to writing "The Gift of Failure," Lahey is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. She also writes the Parent-Teacher Conference column at The New York Times.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Community Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, DuPage Medical Group, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Holiday Inn/Carol Stream, Kiwanis Clubs of Division 9 and Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department. Additional support for this event comes from the Glen Ellyn Public Library and Northwestern Medicine Community Affairs.

For further information, visit www.glenbardgps.org or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at (630) 942-7668 or gilda_ross@glenbard.org.