Prevention Programs for Students

Evidence based programs delivered directly to your school.

Our prevention goal is to increase awareness about alcohol, tobacco, and other drug related problems in our communities, schools, businesses, and professional organizations. Our trained Prevention Specialists use the science of prevention to meet the needs of the community through data-driven programs, efforts, and initiatives.

Explore Our Programs.

For Elementary School Students

  • Footprints for Life

    A 6 week program for 2nd grade students that teaches important life skills to grow up healthy and drug free. The program uses puppets and stories that feature “real life” situations experienced by children on a soccer team.

  • Too Good for Drugs

    A 10 week program for 1st and 3rd grade students that features Auto the Robot teaching students the importance of decision making skills, stress management, and communication skills. This program lays the foundation for healthy decision making and emotional management.

  • Keeping It R.E.A.L.

    A 10 week program for students in 4th and 5th grade is designed to increase life skills including risk assessment, decision making, and drug resistances. The focus on this program is using “REAL” skills, Refuse, Explain, Avoid, and Leave.

For Middle & High School Students

  • Botvin's Life Skills Training

    A 10 week program tailored to Middle School or High School students aimed at skill building to prevent substance use. Topics include self-esteem, resistance skills, communication, and media influence. 

  • We're Not Buying It 2.0

    This new substance abuse prevention program that focuses on developing media literacy skills for students in sixth to eighth grade. WNBI uses researched and evaluated prevention education strategies to reduce early first use of alcohol, marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter medications. The primary focus of WNBI is to raise awareness of substance abuse and bullying behaviors that are included in popular, non- advertisement media such as movies, music and social media. These messages are usually manipulative, false and glorify activities that can be harmful. The modular program includes six units that are delivered over a six-week time period by one of our staff members. The sessions include a mix of lecture, discussion and activities and are designed to last 40-45 minutes each.

  • Media Ready

    Geared toward 5th and 6th graders, media ready is a program that encourages health cognitions about abstinence from alcohol and smoking. The programs helps enhance the students' abilities to think critically by interpreting media messages, in general, and alcohol and tobacco media messages in particular. 

Other Initiatives for Students

Pinwheel Project

Alcohol is responsible for more than 4,300 annual deaths among underage youth. Hundreds of pinwheels are placed on school grounds representing underage youth who die each year due to alcohol. This is a powerful visual for students driving to and from school as they are challenged to celebrate while staying sober!

Sticker Shock Campaign

Part of a state-wide initiative to reduce underage drinking by discouraging adults form buying alcohol for underage drinkers. Coalitions partner with youth volunteers and local alcohol-selling establishments to place brightly colored stickers warning of the legal penalties adults face for buying alcohol for underage drinkers on cases of beer and other alcoholic products. (Any volunteer under the age of 21 must have permission from a parent or guardian to participate).

Fatal Vision Goggle Project

This project addresses the serious problem of drinking and driving in NJ. The goal is to educate people on the dangers of over-consumption and drunk driving. This project sends a clear message that alcohol should not be consumed by anyone under the age of 21.

incorruptible.us

Incorruptible.us is a program that brings together motivated and creative teens to take a stand against the use of Tobacco in New Jersey. Our purpose includes setting up new groups or partnering with already existing groups and focusing on the prevention and cessation of tobacco use among our youth ages 13-18.  Teens will have the opportunity to build lasting bonds with like-minded students and make large scale change! These meetings also meet the requirements for community service hours and is an asset for college applications.