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Youth Prevention Education

HELPING YOUTH MAKE SMART CHOICES TODAY FOR A HEALTHIER TOMORROW

EVIDENCE BASED PREVENTION

360 Youth Services implements the Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) evidence-based drug education curriculum to 6th and 7th grade middle school students. TGFD is a school-based program designed to reduce students’ intention to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, while promoting prosocial attitudes, skills, and behaviors. The program seeks to build the self-confidence of students so they are better able to make healthy choices and achieve success. TGFD specifically emphasizes five social and emotional learning skills that have been shown to promote healthy development and academic success.

  1. Goal setting
  2. Decision making
  3. Bonding with pro-social others
  4. Identifying and managing emotions
  5. Communicating effectively with others

Interactive prevention education

Building skills

360 YS Prevention staff implement the middle school curriculum. The curriculum is delivered for a minimum of two years, designed to build off the previous grade level, requiring students to develop skills and use these skills year after year. The lessons are delivered once a week and are highly interactive, so students have the opportunity to participate, learn, and receive recognition for their participation. Each lesson promotes the opportunity for cooperative learning, role play, small group activity, games, class discussions, and skill-building exercises. The curriculum typically consists of ten forty-minute lessons with an additional lesson on opioids for 6th grade students:

  1. Setting Reachable Goals
  2. Making Responsible Decisions 
  3. Identifying and Managing Emotions 
  4. Effective Communication
  5. Bonding and Relationships 
  6. Effects of Alcohol Use (6th Grade), Understanding Addiction (7th Grade)
  7. Effects of Nicotine Use 
  8. Effects of THC and Marijuana Use (6th Grade), Effects of Alcohol Use (7th Grade)
  9. Safe Use of Prescription and OTC Medicines (6th Grade), The Effects of THC and Marijuana Use (7th Grade) 
  10. Street Drugs and Course Review (6th Grade), Street, Prescription, and OTC Drugs & Course Review (7th Grade)

For additional information, contact Youth Prevention Education Coordinator Sarah Kummerow.

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