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Schools & Parent Education
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DrugFree Idaho Inc.'s overall focus is on creating a community-wide culture that is free of drug and alcohol abuse. We believe that this is in large part achieved through the education of the community as a whole. Therefore, DrugFree Idaho Inc. provides numerous opportunties for members of the community to get involved in drug and alcohol abuse awareness and prevention classes.
There are four components to DrugFree Idaho Inc's classes:
DrugFree Idaho, Inc. sponsors PAYADA education classes for elementary school students and their parents. These sessions are taught as a combined effort between elementary School Resource Officers and school counselors. The curriculum includes information on signs and symptoms of use, general information about a variety of drugs, current trends, developing good communication skills, promoting refusal skills for youth, community resources, and where to go for more information. These classes are free to the public and take place primarily in elementary schools.
In addition to the education classes, DrugFree Idaho, Inc. staff, volunteers and School Resource Officers visit local school classes on a regular basis. School Resource Officers provide on-going student support in the development of resistance/refusal skills.
Please click here, for the Event Calendar and scheduled classes.
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The award-winning Parenting Challenge is a highly dynamic parenting skills program created to:
-Help parents prevent and intervene in negative behaviors
-Learn about current issues associated with today's youth
Parenting: The United Front
Organizational Issues / Self-care
Communication Issues / Successful Discipline Techniques
Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Use
The Parenting Challenge meets the needs of parents based on specific issues you may be dealing with and offers practical solutions to the problems parents face today.
Please click here, for the Event Calendar and scheduled Parenting Challenge classes.
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The award winning Parent Project is a highly structured, 11 week parenting skills program created to help parents prevent and intervene in the most destructive of adolescent behaviors. The nationally used progra m was developed over a period of seven years, working with thousands of parents of high-risk youth. The Parent Project meets specific needs of parents with strong-willed or out-of-control children, offering practical no-nonsense solutions to the problems parents face today. Sixteen comprehensive units of instruction lead parents from theory to practice, to change in the home.
Click here for more information, and see the Event Calendar for class dates and t imes.
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Project Alert is a drug prevention curriculum for middle school youth 11 to 14 years old. Objectives of the program include enabling the middle school students to:
1. Develop reasons not to use drugs
2. Identify pressures to use them
3. Counter pro-drug messages
4. Learn how to say no to external and internal pressures
5. Understand that most people do not use drugs and
6. Recognize the benefits of resistance
The first year's program consists of eleven lessons, taught a week apart. These lessons are reinforced during three additional lessons in year two. The highly participatory curriculum makes extensive use of questions-and-answer techniques, small-group exercises, role modeling, and repeated skills practice. These methods allow teachers to adjust program content to diverse classrooms with different levels of information and drug exposure.
Risk factors that are addressed with Project Alert include early initiation of substance abuse, favorable attitudes toward substance abuse, protective factors focusing on skill development, and educational strategies. Project Alert has been demonstrated effective with all ethnic groups and in both rural and metropolitan communities.
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