Project Northland
Hazelden's Project Northland series for middle and high school students is a state-of-the-art alcohol-use prevention program backed by more than 18 years of research and more than 45 scientific publications. Students participating in Project Northland showed a 30% reduction in weekly drinking and a 20% reduction in monthly drinking. Research also shows that Project Northland can significantly reduce teen marijuana and tobacco use.
Project Toward No Drug Abuse (TND)
Project TND is a drug abuse prevention program that targets high school youth, ages 14 to 19. The program has proved successful when implemented in regular as well as alternative (continuation) high schools, with students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Developed by the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, TND was developed to stop or reduce drug usage, as well as provide accurate information regarding consequences of drug usage.
Skills For Life
Student Skills for Life is a group educational experience which serves as an intervention for youth experimenting with alcohol or other drugs; prevention for any adolescent or college-age population. The program provides experiential life skills training and may include parenting classes and referrals to drug & alcohol assessments when appropriate.
Beginning in
the 2018-19 school year, public school students in grades six through twelve
are required to receive instruction related to the prevention of opioid abuse,
as mandated in Act 55 of 2017.
Alcohol
Literacy Challenge
Based on 40 years of research reported
in nearly 1,000 published studies, the Alcohol Literacy Challenge™ provides
prevention lessons students love. Using cutting edge brain science & media
literacy education about alcohol marketing and social media, the ALC is the 1st
classroom-based alcohol prevention program provided to reduce underage and
binge drinking in a single 50 to 90-minute lesson.
Botvin
Life Skills Training (LST)
Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST)
is a research-validated substance abuse prevention program proven to reduce
alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting the major social and
psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other
risky behaviors. This comprehensive and exciting program provides adolescents
and young teens with the confidence and skills necessary to successfully handle
challenging situations.
HOPE Curriculum (Ohio Department of
Education)
The Health and Opioid Abuse Prevention
Education (HOPE) Curriculum is a K-12 curriculum comprised of a series of
lessons, assessments and learning materials to develop students' functional
knowledge, attitudes, and skills to prevent drug abuse. The lessons are
designed to be a part of a larger substance abuse prevention until within a
school's health education curriculum.
Michigan Model for Health
Michigan
Model for Health is a nationally recognized, comprehensive, evidence-based
curriculum for PreK to Grade 12 built around skills-based instruction. This
program was developed in coordination with the Michigan Department of Education
and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Operation
Prevention
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and
Discovery Education have joined forces to combat a growing epidemic of
prescription opioid misuse and heroin use nationwide. Operation Prevention's
mission is to educate students about the true impacts of opioids and kick-start
lifesaving conversations in the home and classroom.
Project
ALERT
The Project ALERT curriculum was created
and tested by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
organization. Developed over a ten-year period, Project ALERT addresses the
pro-drug mindset of today’s teens and effectively increases their likelihood to
remain drug-free.
Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT)
Project TNT is composed of
ten core lessons and two booster lessons, 40 to 50 minutes each. The ten core
lessons are designed to occur over a two-week period, although they could be
spread out over as long as four weeks on the condition that all lessons are
taught. The booster lessons are designed to be taught one year after the core
lessons. It is recommended that the booster lessons be delivered in a two-day
sequence, although they could be taught one lesson per week.
The curriculum uses a wide
variety of activities to encourage student involvement and participation.
Activities include games, videos, role-plays, large and small group discussion,
use of student worksheets, homework assignments, activism letter writing, and a
videotaping project. The two-lesson booster program summarizes previously
learned material and discusses how this material might be used in daily living.
Second
Step
Second Step provides instruction in social and
emotional learning with units on skills for learning empathy, emotion
management, friendship skills, and problem solving. The program contains
separate sets of lessons for use in PreK through eighth grade implemented in 22
to 28 weeks each year. The Early Learning program in Second Step also includes a
unit for transitioning to kindergarten. Second
Step uses four key strategies to reinforce skill development: brain
builder games (to build executive function), weekly theme activities,
reinforcing activities, and home links. Teachers are encouraged to give
children daily opportunities to practice. Second
Step also connects new skills to other areas in the curriculum
(e.g., literacy, arts, dramatic arts) and provides a structure for each day of
the week. The first day contains a script and main lesson. The second day
includes a story and discussion. The third and fourth days involve practice
activities in small and large groups. On the fifth day students read a book
connected to the overall unit theme, and teachers send home a “Home Link”
activity that gives students an opportunity to practice new skills with their
caregivers.
Too
Good for Drugs (TGFD)
Too Good is a comprehensive family of
evidence-based substance use and violence prevention interventions
designed to mitigate the risk factors linked to problem behaviors and build
protection within the child to resist problem behaviors. Too Good constructs a framework of social and emotional
skills through the development of goal setting, decision-making, emotion
management, and effective communication skills in addition to peer-pressure
refusal, pro-social bonding, and conflict resolution skills.
Too Good for Drugs & Violence
Too Good for Drugs and Violence High
School program has lessons that foster analysis and discussion of the effects
of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) use as well as prescription and over
the counter (OTC) drug use and various nicotine delivery devices. Students also
analyze the impact of social media on decision making, reaching goals, and
self-identity. Students learn how to navigate the challenges of social and
academic pressures like making responsible decisions, managing stress and
anger, reflecting on personal relationships, and resolving conflicts. The
lessons use collaborative and experiential learning strategies to help students
practice the skills proven to prevent violence and other risky behaviors.
Generation
RX
Generation RX website is a
research-based resource hub that was developed by The Ohio State University
College of Pharmacy and the Cardinal Health Foundation. They provide toolkits as supplemental
educational resources for Alcohol and Other Drug education.
Support for provision of programs in schools varies throughout Pennsylvania. Programs can be provided by school personnel, drug and alcohol liaisons through the Single County Authority or through community partners. Partnering with the Student Assistance Program can provide additional resources and partnerships.
School Based Programs
D.A.R.E.
D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teach children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.
Girl Power
Girl Power takes the needs and desires of every girl seriously so that we can provide programs and activities that create healthy, smart, strong and active girls. Girl Power's programs are developed to empower young girls to get more out of life. Established in 2000 by the World Literacy Crusade (WLC) of Florida - an international, nonprofit, community literacy program - Girl Power encourages young girls to build confidence, competence, and pride within themselves. We also provide workshops and materials that inform girls about the risks and consequences associated with substance abuse, low self-esteem, lack of education and more.
Keep A Clear Mind (KACM)
Keep A Clear Mind is a parent-child, take-home program in drug education. It has been field-tested and rigorously evaluated with students in grades 4 through 6 6. Keep A Clear Mind has won the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's (CSAP) Exemplary Program Award, has been promoted as a Model Program by CSAP, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Keep A Clear Mind is listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices. Evaluation papers concerned with Keep A Clear Mind have been presented at the meetings of a number of different scholarly/professional groups, and evaluation articles have been published in the Journal of School Health, the Journal of Drug Education, and the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. This includes an independent evaluation project led by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. Keep A Clear Mind is also available in Spanish.
Each child will receive four activity books (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, good choices), four student incentives (bumper sticker, bookmark, pencil, wristband), and five caregiver newsletters. Students take the activity books home, one per week, and do the program with their caregiver. They receive a student incentive (bumper sticker, bookmark, etc.) for showing their teacher that their caregiver has signed indicating they have worked with their child to complete the activity book. After four weeks of activity books the newsletters are sent home, again, one per week (or one every other week). The program is easy to use and takes almost no classroom time. Training is not required, and generally not needed, but is available if desired. In addition to the Keep A Clear Mind program, we can provide evaluation instruments and assistance with program evaluation.
Teen Intervene
Teen Intervene is designed as a comprehensive screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model of care. Teenagers who have experienced mild to moderate problems associated with alcohol or drug use work one-to-one with an addiction treatment counselor to identify and, ultimately, change their choices and behaviors.
Community Based Programs
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of America
Across the country and locally, Big Brothers-Big Sisters is the gold standard for mentoring. The program is both different and successful because Big Brothers Big Sisters provides a Match Support Specialist for each match in its program. The matches are effective because professional staff ensure that the match relationships are safe, rewarding, and reach their fullest potential. Big Brothers-Big Sisters knows that children matched in relationships that last more than one year have the most positive outcomes. Their match length average is three years, well above the national average.
Girls on the Run
The 10-week Girls on the Run after-school program is designed to inspire girls of all abilities to recognize and embrace their inner strength. Lessons emphasize the important connection between physical and emotional health. At the end of the program, girls participate in a 5K, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment, setting a confident and goal-oriented mindset into motion.