Community Curricula

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Evidence-Based Programs

Getting Real (Middle School, Grades 6-9) Getting Real is a component of the Creating Lasting Family Connections curriculum. The Getting Real communications curriculum is a highly interactive training offered to youth to enhance their relationships. Using Getting Real gives youth the opportunity to examine their responses to verbal and non-verbal behavior they experience in their interactions with others. Visit the curricula website.

Keepin' It REAL (Middle School, Grades 6-9)This curriculum is based on teaching communication and life skills that can combat negative peer pressure and other influences. The program extends resistance and life skills models by using culturally based narrative and performance framework to enhance anti-drug norms and attitudes, and facilitate the development of risk assessment, decision-making, and resistance skills. Keepin' It REAL is a video-enhanced, multicultural program for middle school students. Visit the curricula website.

LifeSkills (Elementary-High School, Grades 3-12) The LifeSkills Training program is a comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally appropriate substance abuse prevention program. This highly effective curriculum has been proven to help increase self-esteem, develop healthy attitudes, and improve their knowledge of essential life skills – all of which promote healthy and positive personal development. Visit the curricula website.

Project ALERT (Middle School, Grades 6-9)Project ALERT is a proven nationally recognized substance abuse program that gives students insight, understanding and actual skills for resisting substance abuse. Project ALERT successfully addresses tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants, the substances teens are most likely to use. Visit the curricula website.

Project Toward No Drug Abuse (High School, Grades 9-12) Project Toward No Drug Abuse (TND) is an interactive program designed to help high school youths (ages 14–19) resist substance use. This school-based program includes motivational activities, social skills training, and decision-making components that are delivered through group discussions, games, role-playing exercises, videos, and student worksheets. It addresses topics such as active listening skills, effective communication skills, stress management, coping skills, tobacco cessation techniques, and self-control—all to counteract risk factors for drug abuse relevant to older teens. Visit the curricula website.

Too Good For Drugs (Elementary-High School, Grades K-12) Too Good for Drugs is a school-based prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among students. Too Good for Drugs (K-8) has a separate, developmentally-appropriate curriculum for each grade level. Each curriculum builds on earlier grade levels, an instructional design which enables students to learn important skills sequentially and retain them year after year. Too Good for Drugs & Violence High School is a comprehensive prevention education program for grades 9-12 designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to remain safe and drug free. A Too Good For Drugs curricula tailored to meet the needs of after-school programs is also available. Visit the curricula website.

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