College Strong Parent Guide
A practical, thoughtful resource to help parents support safety, confidence, and decision-making as teens step into independence.
Sending your teen off into the world comes with a lot of questions — especially around safety, boundaries, social pressure, and how to stay connected without hovering.
The College Strong Parent Guide was created to help parents navigate this transition with clarity and confidence. It offers real-world context, shared language, and conversation prompts you can return to again and again — before college, during the transition, and beyond.
Originally developed to accompany the College Strong program, many parents asked for this guide as a standalone reference — which is why we’re now offering it here.
What's Inside The Guide
Inside this 20-page guide, you’ll find:
• What’s really happening on college campuses — and what matters most to know
• Questions parents can ask schools about campus safety, dorms, and resources
• Practical guidance around dorm room, digital, and everyday safety
• How to talk about boundaries, intuition, and red flags without fear or lectures
• Party, dating, and social-situation preparation rooted in choice and self-trust
• Simple, ongoing conversation prompts to keep these topics part of everyday life
This guide is not about scaring your teen or living in constant alert.
It’s about building judgment, awareness, and self-trust — the skills that actually protect her over time.