HCPS Drug Prevention Curriculum
Elementary School Drug Education Programs
- Kindergarten - Good For You
- Grades 1 - 5 - Here's Looking At You
Scientific evaluation shows statistically significant results
Students who received instruction with Here's Looking at You:
- Used fewer gateway drugs
- Indicated a decreased intent to use alcohol
- Were better able to identify risk factors
- Were more likely to develop a refusal plan to use when pressured with a risky situation
Lessons are designed to:
- Give functional information
- Teach social skills to resist pressures, and manage anger, and cope with stress
- Focus on bonding to school, community, peers, and family
- Reinforce literacy skills
- Integrate into core curriculum areas
- Follow a ready, set, go format and include parental involvement components
Middle School Drug Education Programs
- Grade 6 - Project ALERT
Project ALERT is a school-based drug prevention program for middle grade youth. The US DOE and SAMHSA have designated it an Exemplary Model Program.
The goals of Project ALERT are explicit:
- To prevent adolescents from beginning to use drugs, and to prevent those who have already experimented from becoming regular users.
- To prevent or curb risk factors that has been demonstrated to predict drug use
- The curriculum achieves these goals by motivating adolescents not to use drugs and by teaching them skills to translate that motivation into effective resistance. The lessons that focus on norms, beliefs about drugs, and intentions help motivate adolescents not to use. Those that focus on how to identify and resist pressures stemming from the availability of drugs, and from pressures to use, stress skills.
- Grade 7 - Life Science Unit
- Grade 8 - Here's Looking at You
- Grades 6,7,8 - Skillwise Program
High School Drug Education Program
- Grade 9 - Health
- Grade 11 - U.S. History
- Grade 12 - Contemporary Issues