The conference is designed to connect participants to nationally prominent parenting authorities, authors, researchers and political figures. The Conference's special focus on Work and Parenting will provide attendees with new insights on delivering parenting services at the workplace and in creating parent-friendly work environments. Participants will also be exposed to the largest array of parenting programs to strengthen families and prevent juvenile delinquency, child abuse, drug abuse, gangs involvement, school problems, crime and violence. As a result of grants awarded to California, New York, Florida, and 15 other states by the Justice Department today, dangerous individuals, such as persons subject to domestic violence protective orders or drug abusers will be kept from purchasing firearms. These states, all with advanced criminal history record systems, are committed to serving as models for other states that have less advanced criminal history records systems.
Women are now every bit as much at risk as men.
We must play catch-up in order to provide needed education, treatment, and prevention services. First Lady Betty Ford, First Lady Nancy Reagan, and Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are involved. The participation in today's release of the CASA study underscores that confronting the drug menace is a bipartisan issue. The alarming statistics in the CASA study show how seriously drug abuse is now affecting women and girls. The devastating effects of drug use by a young mother can ripple like shock waves through entire families.