School & Community-based Services
BOTVINS LIFESKILLS™ – ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
LifeSkills™ Training, a science-based prevention curriculum consisting of 8 sequential sessions in 3rd grade, 4th grade and 5th grades, is used to provide services to elementary school students and their families. The three major content areas covered are personal self-management skills, general social skills and drug-resistance skills. Sessions for participants are approximately 30-45 minutes and are provided during and after school hours. Staff members conduct parenting presentations. Parent sessions are offered once a week for five weeks and provide parents with the opportunity to learn cooperative activities to use with their children.
BOTVINS LIFESKILLS™ MIDDLE SCHOOLS
LifeSkills™ Training, a research-based prevention program, also is implemented with middle school youth enrolled in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The program utilizes effective drug prevention strategies that are designed to change behavior and increase awareness. Through behavioral rehearsals and by receiving up-to-date knowledge regarding alcohol and other drugs, students gain awareness of “pro-drug media messages” and develop resistance, personal-management, problem-solving, decision-making, effective communication and general social skills.
PROJECT ALERT – MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Project Alert is a science-based prevention program for middle school youth, who are “at high risk” for potentially using drugs. The goal of this program is to motivate adolescents to not use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by teaching them effective resistance skills. This program focuses on preventing the onset of use and intervening so those who are experimenters do not become regular users. The program also seeks to decrease “risk factors” that have been demonstrated to predict drug use.
To get more information about these and other services for youth, contact youth@council-houston.org.
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