Prevention Services
A Path to Fuller Living
Botvin LifeSkills® Training
PATHS® (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) Program
Project ALERT®
A Path to Fuller Living
A Path to Fuller Living is the menu of prevention services that Caron provides to students in grades K-12. These programs address decision-making; social skills and problem solving techniques; increased personal control; and healthy risk-taking. They utilize interactive approaches and experiential techniques to help make the information and concepts more easily understood and applied.
Botvin LifeSkills® Training
LifeSkills® Training, a customized eight session drug prevention curriculum covering grades 3-12, is a comprehensive approach to prevention based on scientific evidence surrounding the causes of substance abuse. LifeSkills® Training emphasizes skills-centered training methods proven to reduce alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among youth with documented effectiveness through extensive evaluation.
Key Successes of LifeSkills®:
- Has been proven to cut tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use by up to 75%
- Has been proven to cut poly-drug use by up to 66%
- Decreases use of inhalants, narcotics and hallucinogens
- Effects have been shown to last up to 6 years
- Maintains effectiveness across diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds
- Contains booster sessions to maintain prevention effects
LifeSkills® Training has been selected as an exemplary, researched-based prevention program by:
- American Medical Association
- American Psychological Association
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention
- White House Office of Drug Policy
Learn more about LifeSkills® Training from the creator of this program
PATHS® (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) Program
Developed by Carol A. Kusché, Ph.D. & Mark T. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Channing Bete Company
PATHS® is an interactive and engaging curriculum for students in grades 1-6 that promotes social and emotional learning, character development, bullying prevention, and builds the problem-solving abilities and other life skills needed for positive relationships. PATHS® teaches children how to change behaviors and attitudes that contribute to violence and bullying, how to express and control their emotions, and how to develop effective conflict-resolution strategies. Caron’s Student Assistance Specialists can tailor the PATHS® curriculum to your classroom environment. Typically the program is structured to run for 8 - 10 weeks and meets once a week/ cycle for 30-45 minutes depending upon the grade level.
Project ALERT®
Project ALERT® is a nationally recognized, 7th & 8th grade, evidence-based curriculum that gives students insight, understanding, and actual skills for resisting substance use. Project ALERT® successfully addresses tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants, the substances teens are most likely to use.
Project ALERT®:
- Motivates students against drug use
- Provides skills and strategies to resist drugs
- Establishes new non-use attitudes and beliefs
- Uses a variety of methods including small group activities, role playing exercises, real life videos, and guided classroom discussions
- Consists of 11 lessons that are most effective when taught once a week during the first year, plus 3 booster lessons that should be delivered the following year. Project ALERT® complements other curricula and can be implemented in conjunction with lessons from sex education, health, physical education, science, and social studies.
Project ALERT® Successes:
- A 38% reduction in marijuana initiation in moderate-risk students
- A 26% reduction in cigarette smoking by moderate-risk students
- A 19% reduction in new smokers
- A 23% drop in weekly smokers
- A 40% drop in students already experimenting with cigarettes in becoming regular smokers
- A 24% lower alcohol misuse score
- A 20% reduction of highest-risk early drinkers
- A 20 to 25% decrease in cigarette use during the past month
- A 33 to 55% decrease in regular and heavy usage of cigarettes
- A 60% decrease in current marijuana use
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