Knowledge is never neutral.
We receive it and understand it through our personal prism of belief, experience and morality.
It’s likely some aspects of these will be shared with your kids, while others won’t be.
With Staying Safe Parents, you’ll know what your kids know.
And that means any conversation will start with everyone having the same facts.
Staying Safe Parents was created for parents after the success of the original Staying Safe Programme (SSP), an online course designed by an expert team to educate university students about alcohol and other drugs in a way that is engaging, authentic and useful.
The SSP evolved from discussions with Student Unions, Directors of Student Experience and Welfare and policy experts. It places the use of substances within the context of wider university life. SSP has the health, safety and success of students at its core. It acknowledges the competing challenges universities have, from protecting reputation and recruitment, to supporting student welfare, diversity and inclusion and compliance with current drug legislation.
With comprehensive content, its harm reduction approach aims to reduce demand and risk for those who use drugs and supports non-drug users to maintain abstinence.
The modular programme lets students chose what they want to learn more about. Featuring engaging videos, that cover everything from a drug’s history, effects, uses and harms the course won’t bore, patronise or preach. The modules place the use of substances within the wider context of a person’s life, raising awareness of the risks associated with alcohol and other drugs use, and how to minimise these. The course covers a wide variety of topics ranging from drugs effect, the law, sexual assault and consent and how to look out for your mates.
SSP places the use of substances within the context of wider university life. It does not define a person by their use of a substance. Each module highlights issues related to mental and physical health and other personal vulnerability factors and includes modules on the law, sex drugs and consent and civic responsibility. The course also covers how to deal with drug emergencies, disrupt sexual assault and how to make informed choices and be respectful of the choices others make.
