Faye Briggs works with the youth at First Baptist Church of Woodburn, and is the mom of a teenage daughter.

And she says raising kids in today's world can sometimes be a challenge.

"As a parent, a lot of us think we know our kids, but we actually don't know. And don't really know what's going on with them, and what's going on in society," explains Faye Briggs.

Professionals would agree that parents today are disconnected, and say that's a big problem when it comes to keeping kids safe.

"Parents are the vital component of any prevention effort, any drug prevention, violence prevention because they're there with the kids. And you know their the voice, means a lot to the youth, even more so than a lot of parents think," explains Eric Gregory, Executive Director of Save our Kids Coalition.

Communities often turn a blind eye when it come to problems with the youth, but it doesn't change the facts any.

In fact, the developer of the program, Bill Oliver says even Bowling Green is seeing an increase in youth problems.

"I was in Bowling Green in 1991 and the big issue then was senior high schools, high school seniors and pot and marijuana. Today it's sex, it's violence, it's methamphetamine. It's changed a lot, and parents are getting blind-sighted by that," explains Oliver.

For some people like Briggs, society's Toxic Culture was a mystery, but today's seminar is shining lot on the issues at hand.

"Me being a single parent raising a teenage daughter taught me some things I didn't know, and some things I didn't know existed," Briggs says.

Thanks to educators like Bill Oliver, today's parents are being given a better chance of reaching their kids before it's too late.