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School-Based Prevention Services

FCDAC offers a variety of school-based prevention programs to help students build skills, understand risks, and make informed decisions.

School-based services may include classroom education, small group programs, and evidence-based prevention curricula. Programs are designed to support students, educators, and families with age-appropriate information and practical tools.

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Program Examples

Six 15-Minute Sessions

Positive Action

Positive Action is an evidence-based program that features instructor-led lessons in a comprehensive approach, equipping students with essential life skills for their personal and academic success. Positive Action has a six-unit design that covers a wide range of topics, from self-concept to responsible decision-making, ensuring a thorough and systematic development of key competencies.

Who is it for?

Positive Action can be used for everyone. Curriculum for grades Pre-K to 12th grade is available as well as curriculum for families to do together. Targeted curriculum is also available for school climate, drug prevention, bullying prevention, and conflict resolution.

Why it works:

Positive Action’s instructor-led methodology inspires adaptive leadership, transforming the school climate into a welcoming and dynamic space where students are genuinely excited to learn and engage.

Fifteen 50-Minute Sessions

Too Good for Drugs

TGFD is an education program designed to mitigate risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use. The lessons introduce and develop skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, developing self-efficacy, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure and influence.
Who is it for?
TGFD is a universal K–12 prevention education program. At the elementary level, additional skills and developmental topics build on the core skill set to broaden students’ sense of self-efficacy and confidence. In middle school, TGFD helps teens meet the challenges of middle school life, fostering confidence and building resistance to substance use. In high school, TGFD applies real-world challenges teens face to explore practical guidance for understanding the negative health effects related to prescription drug misuse, underage drinking, marijuana use, opioid misuse, and nicotine use.

Why it works:
TGFD is an evidence-based prevention program. It teaches youth to set reachable goals, make responsible decisions, bond with prosocial peers, identify and manage emotions, and communicate effectively.

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Sixteen 45-Minute Sessions

Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST)

Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) is a research-validated substance use prevention program proven to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors. This comprehensive and exciting program provides adolescents and young teens with the confidence and skills necessary to successfully handle challenging situations.
Who is it for?
LST curriculum is available for elementary through high school students.

Why it works:
Botvin LifeSkills Training is based on more than 40 years of peer-reviewed scientific research and is recognized as a leading evidence-based substance use prevention program.

Effectiveness:
• Cuts tobacco use by 87%
• Cuts alcohol use by 60%
• Cuts marijuana use by 75%
• Cuts methamphetamine use by 68%
• Cuts polydrug use by 66%
• Reduces pack-a-day smoking by 25%
• Lowers risk for prescription drug and opioid misuse
• Decreases use of inhalants, narcotics, and hallucinogens
• Reduces violence
• Reduces risky driving behavior
• Demonstrates effects on HIV risk behavior

Visit the Botvin LifeSkills Training website
Four 45-Minute Sessions

Catch My Breath (CMB)

CATCH My Breath is an evidence-based youth nicotine vaping prevention program that will provide your students with the skills to resist peer pressure and media influences to try e-cigarettes. The sessions can be taught during a normal class period, during homeroom, student enrichment time, after-school, or at other non-school activities and clubs.

Who is it for?

The CATCH My Breath Program (grades 5, 6, 7-8, and 9-12) consists of 4 unique lessons for each grade group, that are approximately 45 minutes each. This is a universal program for all kids to learn about the dangers of e-cigarette use.

Why it works:

CATCH My Breath activities are designed to influence social and psychological factors related to youth e-cigarette use by:

-Disrupting the norm held by youth that most teens use e-cigarettes
-Developing skills to resist peer pressure and advertising pressure to use e-cigarettes
-Understanding how advertising is designed to undermine credible health information
-Creating favorable non-smoking attitudes and beliefs about e-cigarettes

    Twelve 45-Minute Sessions

    Project Toward No Drug Abuse (PTNDA)

    Project TND is an effective drug abuse prevention program that targets high school-age youth. PTNDA is implemented in the classroom with 12 sessions that are 40-50 minutes.

    Who is it for?

    Project TND targets high school youth, ages 14 to 19. The program has proved successful when implemented in regular as well as alternative (continuation) high schools, with students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

    Why it works:

    As an evidence-based prevention program, PTND is proven to have results. The goal of PTND is to stop or reduce the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drugs, weapon carrying and victimization as well as being able to state accurate information about the consequences of drug use and abuse, including environmental, social, physiological, and emotional consequences.

    Visit the Project Towards No Drug Abuse website
    Five 45-Minute Sessions

    Stacked Deck

    Stacked Deck is an evidence-based curriculum for the prevention of problem gambling among teens and young adults.
    Who is it for?
    Stacked Deck is proven effective as a complete program for grades 9 through 12 (ages 14 to 19). Lessons 1, 2, 4, and 5 are also appropriate for grades 7 and 8.

    Why it works:
    • Fun and engaging multimedia delivery
    • A well-structured sequence of lessons that develops essential knowledge and key skills
    • A key message that advocates for “smart gambling,” understood as sensible risk-taking rather than total abstinence from risk-taking
    • Take-home messages that engage families
    • An engaging quiz game that emphasizes retention of knowledge and skills
    1-Hour Presentation

    Gambling In Gaming (GiG)

    Gambling in Gaming focuses on helping youth understand how gambling can appear in video games through features such as loot boxes, microtransactions, and chance-based rewards. GiG also teaches participants how gaming and internet use can affect the brain, emotions, and decision-making, while showing the differences between skill-based gaming and gambling. It also promotes awareness of problematic gaming and internet use, encourages healthy screen-time habits, and provides strategies for making safe, informed choices when engaging online.

    Who is it for?

    Gambling in Gaming is for high school students aged 13-17 years old.

    Why it works:

    Gambling in Gaming uses relatable game examples and research-based insights to show how gaming and gambling mechanics affect behavior. It helps youth distinguish skill from chance, recognize risks, and build healthy habits through interactive, real-world learning, empowering safer, informed decisions.

    Four 45-Minute Sessions

    Kids Don’t Gamble... Wanna Bet?

    Wanna Bet? is an interdisciplinary program designed to discourage underage gambling through improved critical thinking and problem solving.

    Who is it for?

    Wanna Bet? is gambling curriculum for students in grades 3-8.

    Why it works:

    Wanna Bet? works because it is designed to be integrated into existing units in health, math, and life skills, or used in conjunction with an existing prevention program.

    Two 1-Hour Sessions

    Teens/Kids and Tech

    Teens and Technology focuses on the impact of a digital footprint, highlights the type of information that is safe to share on the internet, and information that is NOT safe to share on the internet as well as safe and healthy habits regarding online gaming.
    Who is it for?
    Kids and Technology is for grades 3–4. This single one-hour lesson teaches youth how to navigate technology safely. Teens and Technology is for youth in grades 6–8. Two one-hour sessions show youth how to balance healthy online and offline lives.

    Why it works:
    Teens/Kids and Technology focuses on one of the biggest influences in young people’s lives: technology. Using a conversational approach, program facilitators talk with youth at their level about staying safe online and unplugging when needed.
    Four 45-Minute Sessions

    INDEPTH

    Intervention for Nicotine Dependence: Education, Prevention, Tobacco and Health (INDEPTH) is a new, convenient alternative to suspension or citation that helps schools and communities address the teen vaping problem in a more supportive way.
    Who is it for?
    This is for middle and high school students who have been identified as at risk for tobacco or nicotine dependence. INDEPTH can be taught by any trained adult in four 45-minute sessions. Each session addresses a different tobacco-related issue and can be facilitated one-on-one or in a group setting.

    Why it works:
    Instead of focusing solely on punitive measures, INDEPTH is an interactive program that teaches students about nicotine dependence, healthy alternatives, and how to address the unhealthy addiction that led to the infraction.
    Ten 50-Minute Sessions

    Not On Tobacco (N-O-T)

    Not On Tobacco® (N-O-T) seeks to address this growing problem of teen nicotine use by giving all teens the resources they need to break nicotine dependency and find healthier outlets.

    Who is it for?

    N-O-T was designed with teenagers in mind and addresses issues that are specifically important to them. The program takes a holistic approach with each session using different interactive learning strategies based on Social Cognitive Theory of behavior change that can then be applied and practiced in everyday life and encourages a voluntary change for youth ages 14 to 19.

    Why it works:

    N-O-T is taught by a trained and certified adult in ten, 50-minute sessions. It is most effective in a small group format that emphasizes teamwork. This method helps teens quit by addressing total health in order to develop and maintain positive behaviors. Participants will talk about the importance of physical activity, nutrition, enhancing their sense of self-control, and improving life skills such as stress management, decision making, coping and interpersonal skills. Additionally, they will learn to identify their reasons for smoking or vaping, healthy alternatives to tobacco use and finding people who will support them in their efforts to quit.

    What Happens When You Contact the Prevention Team?

    STEP 1
    Reach Out

    Email our Prevention Team by clicking this link.

    STEP 2
    Tell Us About Your Audience

    A prevention specialist can learn more about your group, setting, preferred topic, and goals.

    STEP 3
    Explore Program Options

    The team can help identify a program, presentation, campaign, or resource that may fit your needs.

    STEP 4
    Plan the Next Step

    When appropriate, the team can coordinate scheduling, materials, and next steps.