|
Student - Based Initiatives: |
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SMART Moves
(Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) |
6-15 years old |
Designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to
assist young people in avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
Located in local school systems, at area YWCAs & at Mecklenburg
County Parks & Rec. |
| Dream
Team |
13-18 years old |
Training
for high school athletes to be peer educators for elementary school youth. |
| FOCUS |
14-20 years old |
Designed
to assist youth who have been exposed to
drugs or have consumed or purchased alcohol. |
| All
Stars |
11-14
years old |
Designed
to delay and prevent high risk behaviors including substance abuse and
violence by fostering development of positive personal characteristics. |
| Project
Toward No Drug Abuse |
14-19 years old |
Designed
to help high school youth resist substance use.
Consists of lessons that include motivational activities, social
skills training, and decision making components that are delivered
through group discussions, games, role-playing exercise, videos, and
student worksheets. |
|
Keepin It Real |
10-17 years old |
Provides interactive educational
activities, structured
recreational events & life skills curriculum during the school year
(Monday - Friday) after normal school hours and on school holidays. |
| Out-of-School-Time
Initiatives: |
|
Students Taking Action Not
Drugs (STAND) |
Rising
5th, 6th
& 7th graders |
4
day residential leadership camp held at local college campus.
Provides students with current information about tobacco, alcohol,
drug prevention, resistance skills & like skills training. |
| Family
Programs: |
|
|
| Dare
to be You |
2-5
years old |
Parenting
program which teaches self-responsibility, communication and social
skills, and problem solving/decision making. |
| Guiding Good Choices |
Parents
with children
Grades 4th-7th |
Parenting
program where parents learn to increase
their children's opportunities for involvement in the family, to teach
skills needed by children and adolescents, and to provide
reinforcement for desired behaviors and appropriate consequences for
undesired behaviors. |
| Strengthening
Families |
Parents
with children
6-14 years old |
Parents
in recovery learn to increase desired behavior in children by using
attention and rewards, clear communication, effective discipline,
substance use education, problem solving and limit setting.
Children learn the consequences of substance use, life skills that
prevent this behavior and contribute to a positive family unit. |
| Neighborhood-Based
Programs: |
|
| Up
With Hope |
4-15 years old
16 - 20 years old assist |
Provides
students with an organized basketball team, tutoring
and life skills.
Open to boys and girls. |
| Girl
Power
Soy Unica Soy Latina |
5-16 years old |
Provides
girls with knowledge and skills that promote healthy
decisions and life styles. |
| Boys
2 Men
Latino Poder
TRU Boys |
10-16 years old |
Intended
to provide male leadership, positive mentoring, drug
education, life skills and promote wellness and growth.
This is an effort to increase self and community awareness. |
| Menu-Based
Topics: |
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| 04
Cocaine: Facts / Fiction |
| 05
Communication Skills |
| 06
Gangs |
| 07
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders |
| 08
Identify
Symptoms of Substance Abuse in the Work Place |
| 09
Introduction to Drugs of
Abuse |
| 10
Parenting For Prevention |
| 11
Problem – Solving |
| 12
Relationships and Chemical
Dependency |
| 13
Risk Taking Behaviors |
| 14
Self – Esteem |
| 15
Meth -
What's cooking in your neighborhood |
| 16 Heroin
- What's
the Real Dope? |
| 17
Substance Abuse and Suicide |
| 18
Tobacco: To Smoke or Not to
Smoke |
| 19
Women and Wellness |
| 20
Chemically Dependent
Adolescents |
| 21
Family Dynamics of
Addiction |
| 22
STD’s and Date Rape Drugs |
| 23
A
New Look at the Abuse of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs |
| 24
The Process of Addiction |
| 25
Ecstasy - What's the Rave About? |
| 26
Drug: Facts and Fiction |
| 27
Positive Peer Pressure |
| 28
Conflict Resolution |
| 29
DWI Laws |
| 30
Anger Management |
| 31
Marijuana - Weeding out the Hype |
| 32
Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse |
| If none of these topics meet your needs, we will
be happy to meet with you to design a program tailored to your
specifications. Please
contact Prevention Services at 704-376-7447, Monday- Friday to set up
an appointment |
