Prevention In Our Schools
Back to School means back to the classroom not
just for students, but also for their dedicated teachers. Our agency provides substance abuse prevention
education programs in the Hardee, Highlands, and Polk county areas with efforts
that include science-based education programs to over 15,000 students in
elementary, middle, and high schools.
At InnerAct Alliance, we have an amazing staff who
present prevention education programs such as Keep A Clear Mind, Too Good for
Drugs and Violence, Project ALERT, The PAX Good Behavior Game, Project Towards
No Drug Abuse, as well as Social Norms in schools. These best practice
educational programs have been proven to positively influence students’
attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions regarding alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and
other drug use, bullying, violence, and other risky behaviors.
Keep a
Clear Mind (4th Grade): Keep a Clear Mind is a
prevention course that features a series of 30-minute lessons focusing on
alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and a final gateway drug review. The program is
specifically designed with take home activities for parent/guardian and
children to complete together and help create open lines of communication
between parent and child. After four weeks of classroom-based lessons, a parent
newsletter is sent home for five weeks to further assist parents in discussing
substance abuse prevention with their children.
Too Good for Drugs (K-8th
Grade): Too Good for Drugs is a ten-week program
with lessons focusing on character-building attributes to assist students in
resisting alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, bullying, fighting, and other
risky behaviors using communication skills, tolerance, goal-setting, resistance
skills and more. The program helps to build awareness of healthy life
skills and promotes unity among students and throughout the school.
Too Good
for Drugs and Violence (TGFV): Too Good for Drugs and Violence is a school-based violence prevention
and character education program designed to enhance pro-social behaviors and
skills and improve protective factors related to conflict and violence. TGFV
has a developmentally appropriate curriculum for each grade through 8th grade,
plus a separate high school curriculum for 9-12 grade students.
Project
ALERT (6th-7th Grade): Project
ALERT is a school-based prevention program for middle school students that
focuses on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use. It seeks to prevent adolescent
nonusers from experimenting with these drugs, and to prevent youth who are
already experimenting from becoming more regular users or abusers. Based on the
social influence model of prevention, the program is designed to help motivate
young people to avoid using drugs and teach them the critical skills needed to
understand and resist pro-drug social influences.
PAX Good Behavior Game
(K-5th Grade): The PAX Good Behavior Game is
an environmental intervention used in the classroom with young children to
create an environment that is conducive to learning. The intervention is
designed to reduce off-task behavior, increase attentiveness, and decrease
aggressive and disruptive behavior and shy and withdrawn behavior. The program
also aims to improve academic success, as well as mental health and substance
use outcomes later in life.
