Young People

Positive Choices is an online portal to help Australian schools and communities access accurate, up-to-date evidence based alcohol and other drug education resources.

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Cooper helps Jack make a plan is the latest addition to a series of books published by CfC, providing supportive information for schools, families and community members to explore real life issues and facilitate constructive conversations. This critical new educational resource for primary aged children has been developed by the Brighton Local Drug Action Team.

More information about this resource can be found here: https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/tasmaniac4c/publications/

Smoke Free Generation - be a part of it! is a collaboration of service providers who want to protect young Tasmanians from the harmful effects of tobacco use.​

This website includes details on the range of options that young Tasmanians can use or access to become smoke free.​It also includes information and resources to ensure adults, particularly teachers and youth workers, are aware of their role in ensuring a smoke free generation.

This includes preventing or delaying smoking uptake, encouraging and assisting young smokers to reduce or quit smoking and to create and support smoke free and healthy environments.

Sometimes when people are drunk or use drugs they can become violent and aggressive. This can be scary, but this factsheet looks at some ways you can try to calm them down and protect yourself.

Are you concerned that your friend might be using drugs? Has your cousin or another family member been behaving differently lately? If you think someone might be using drugs, it can be hard to know what to do.

This 3-part series gives you tips for supporting them and talking to them.

It’s important to understand the realities of who actually uses drugs and alcohol. This factsheet from Positive Choices is going to look at what sort of myths and rumours you might have heard about alcohol and drugs, and tell you the real facts.

www.tuneinnotout.com, or TINO as we like to be called, is your one-stop shop for information on a wide range of topics for navigating life’s challenges, from mental health, relationships, exam stress to sexual health and more.

Each topic page features videos, stories, music playlists and factsheets created by services and young people from across Australia brought together in one central location.  You can even submit your own story and playlist for other young people to check out.

During the teenage years the brain is going through significant changes, and the problem-solving and long-term thinking parts of the brain are still developing. This means teenagers are more likely to act on impulses and take risks. What do you need to know as a parent or guardian to keep your young person safe around alcohol? This fact sheet from Positive Choices provides useful information for you to navigate the teenage years with your family.

If your teenager wants to attend or host a party, what do you need to know as a parent or guardian to keep them safe and healthy? This factsheet from Positive Choices provides useful information to help you and your teens party safe.

Parents play a key role in their teenager’s decision to use or not use alcohol and other drugs. This factsheet from Positive Choices provides tips on how to talk to your teenager about minimising harms associated with alcohol and other drug use.

How families can protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teenagers against drug related harms? This factsheet from Positive Choices explores what families can do to keep their young ones safe and healthy.

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How common is alcohol and drug use in young people? This factsheet from Positive Choices provides some statistics on the issue in Australia.