Substance Abuse Prevention

Articles, Excerpts, Tips & More
Recommendations for Working with Parents: These tips will help you to provide parents with information about alcohol and drugs and to encourage them to be active participants in your prevention effort.
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Guidelines for Designing Evaluation Questionnaires: These key elements will help you to design an effective questionnaire.
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Prevention Activities for Your Faith-Based Organization: These two sample activities from Pathways to Prevention can be used to help youth better understand drug use and how to respond to peer pressure.
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Tips for Facilitations from Pathways to Prevention: These tips will help you to successfully lead group activities and to engage the youth in your program.
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Description of Creating Lasting Family Connections Program: This article describes a comprehensive substance abuse prevention program aimed at at-risk youth ages 12 to 14.
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Checklist of Steps to Forming a Community Coalition: Use this checklist to guide your organization in building a community-wide anti-drug coalition.
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Current Prevention Theories and Practices: This short article will give you information about substance abuse prevention theories and practices shown to be effective.
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Underage Drinking Prevention Strategies: This article discusses the various prevention strategies you may consider as you develop your program.
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Substance Abuse Prevention Toolkit: This toolkit features articles, information, curriculum reviews and resource lists to help directors of prevention programs to develop, implement, and evaluate their programs.
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Curriculum Review of A Matter of Balance: This workbook for college students and other young adults helps them to recognize their responsibility to choose a healthy drug- and alcohol-free lifestyle for themselves.
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Key Elements of Effective Drug Prevention Curricula: Here are nine short lessons learned about curricula that makes a positive difference.
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Curriculum Review of Growing Up Black and Proud: This curriculum is specifically tailored to address issues important to African-American youth and to empower them to choose a positive and healthy lifestyle.
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Characteristics of an Effective Prevention Teacher: Linda Christensen’s You Can Make a Difference guide suggests six key characteristics that mark educators who can successfully help young people to avoid substance abuse.
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Planning an Evaluation: Use these steps to help you plan an evaluation of your substance abuse prevention program.
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Characteristics of Effective After-School Prevention Programs: Use this checklist of promising practices to evaluate the effectiveness of your own after-school program, by determining whether it includes these key characteristics.
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Guidelines and Benchmarks for Prevention Programming: These ten guidelines will help you to assess (a) the potential effectiveness of varying prevention strategies and (b) the feasibility, timeliness, and proposed structure of your program.
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Common Slang Terms for Drugs: Use this list to help you identify types of drugs to which youth may be exposed.
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Recommended Books
Curriculum in a Box: Middle School Confidential: This secular pre-packaged curriculum for middle school/junior high students focuses on drug resistance skills and life skills. Curriculum includes 10 videos, 2 teacher resource books and reproducible worksheets.
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Storytelling Power Book: This multicultural middle school prevention program emphasizes visual arts and storytelling to help develop “the power to create your life.” It offers many activities and incorporates traditional folk tales from numerous cultures.
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Winthrop and Munchie Talk About Alcohol: This coloring book helps clear up confusion that younger children (ages 5-8) have about what alcohol is, what it does, and how to decide whether you should drink when you are old enough.
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Islam Provides Remedy to Alcoholism: This essay examines Islam’s role in reducing the rate of alcoholism in Arab countries, providing encouragement to Muslims interested in starting programs aimed at helping those who abuse alcohol.
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Growing Up Black and Proud: This workbook is intended for African-American teens and addresses issues of chemical dependency, substance abuse, peer pressure and problem solving.
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Alternate Routes: An Alcohol Diversion Program: This workbook is primarily produced for youth who have gotten in trouble for alcohol-related incidents. It focuses on the youth’s strengths and goals to challenge the adolescent to uncover their best self and direction in life.
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You Can Make a Difference: Characteristics & Skills of the Effective Prevention Teacher: Many guides exist to walk you through the nuts-and-bolts of setting up a prevention program, but this booklet describes the most important characteristics and skills educators must develop in order to be effective in leading a prevention program.
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Curriculum in a Box: Substance Abuse 2005: This secular pre-packaged curriculum for students in grades 7-12 is an all-inclusive drug education library. The curriculum includes 11 videos, 2 overhead transparency packs, 2 teacher resource books, 4 posters and reproducible worksheets.
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Clued In Sample Pack: Youth will love playing a detective trying to uncover “drugs’ darkest secret” in this set of four workbooks dealing with substance abuse prevention for children in grades 3-6.
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Power of Prevention: Research has shown that faith communities can help reduce the risk of substance abuse. This self-study guide walks individuals through research on prevention programs and offers educational credit hours for some professions.
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A Matter of Balance: Personal Strategies for Alcohol and Other Drugs: This secular and informative prevention workbook is geared towards young adults in their late teens. It examines the role heredity plays in contributing to substance abuse while not overlooking environmental pressures.
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Recommended Links
Substance Abuse Ministries Network: This site offers helpful articles and information regarding substance abuse prevention and education for religious leaders of all faiths.
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Parents: The Antidrug: This site provides substance abuse prevention information and advice for parents, teachers, and faith leaders.
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National Inhalant Prevention Coalition: This organization promotes awareness of the problem of inhalant use by producing informational materials, providing training and technical assistance, leading the National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week, and stimulating media coverage.
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Do It Now Foundation: The Do It Now Foundation provides prevention tools and resources aimed at empowering people of all ages, particularly disaffected or high-risk youth, to make healthy choices based upon objective information rather than scare tactics.
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American Council for Drug Education: The American Council for Drug Education develops substance abuse prevention and education programs and materials based on current scientific research on drug use and its impact on society.
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Faith. The Anti-Drug.: This is a site for FBOs that want to focus on drug abuse prevention. Several articles, downloadable resources and links to other related sites are available.
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Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free: This initiative is a coalition of Governors’ spouses, federal agencies, and public and private organizations devoted to keeping children between the ages of 9 and 15 free of alcohol.
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National Families in Action: This organization helps parents to prevent drug abuse among children.
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Freevibe.com: Designed by The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, this website offers scientific information about illegal drugs and their effects. Teens will likely be interested in the interactive bulletin board and the section on how to help a friend who is using drugs or alcohol.
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