This is a free Word download available from College Transition Group (www.collegetransitiongroup.com).  Since the transition from high school to college is a huge concern for many parents (and probably you), offer this free resource to your parents.  Be sure they know it comes from you.  Once more you make yourself a valuable ally to the parents.  

Having some sort of parent meeting is common practice in any form of youth ministry. When talking to other youth workers who are trying some form of family-based youth ministry, a parent meeting is always mentioned and is usually already in the works. But a question must be proposed about those parent meetings. When you have a parent meeting, what is the purpose? Is it to push the youth program or is it to truly help the parents with their teen?

Too many of these meetings have the agenda to push the youth program. Yes, getting the detailed information of the youth program into the parents' hands in a forum where they can ask questions is helpful. But parents of teens need more than a calender of the youth program. They have these teens in their homes every day and probably feel overwhelmed as a parent of a teenager. Parents hope the church youth ministry can do more to help them than give them a schedule.