1. Families are a critical influence in their children’s present and future drug using behavior.

2. Parenting programs need to be drug specific in the context of a holistic, developmental approach to parenting issues.

3. No one parenting strategy or program is suitable for all communities.  Different communities and different groups in the community may require different approaches and materials.

4. A parent component is a necessary part of any systems approach community-based prevention program.

5. There are different types of strategic approaches available in parenting programs, including information, skills-building, alternatives, social policy, and community-coalition building.

6. This PIP training does not promote or teach one parent program.  Rather, it gives reference to many, and helps participants set up criteria for choosing the programs they wish to promote or use.

7. This PIP training should be seen in the context of a series of other CSAP parenting initiatives that are occurring simultaneously; all initiatives support and enhance the content of each other and are designed to build synergistic relationships between themselves.

8. This PIP training is designed to promote leverage of effort, so that it targets key organizations and individuals who have the potential and the interest to take the training to their own sphere of influence, and replicate the training, and promote parent trainings and efforts at the grass roots level.