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Our Role & Risk Factors
K-12 Programs
SC/SP, Parents, and Families
Ethical Concerns
100
Overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.
What is Substance Abuse
100
Risk factors for substance abuse that reveal that SUDs can run in a person's family, and could potentially lead to them abusing certain substances themselves.
What are Genetic Factors
100
An evidence-based program for 4th and 5th grade that builds skills of goal setting, effective communication, decision making, media literacy, and peer resistance skills so that students are better able to make responsible, healthy decisions.
What is Too Good for Drugs
100
A screening tool that assesses 6 behavioral aspects of alcohol and drug use.
What is the CRAFFT
100
Giving the student information about the counseling process, the limitations, and purpose of that process, you provide the student with the opportunity to chose whether to continue the counseling or not.
What is Informed Consent
200
Curiosity, risk taking, peer-pressure, pleasure seeking, and self medication are all examples of this
What are Factors that Initiate use
200
Family history of mental illness, personal history of mental illness, low SES, and limited ability to cope with stress are all examples of this
What are Risk Factors
200
A six week literacy program for children Kindergarten-4th grade that focuses on building self esteem, developing healthy habits, and making positive choices.
What is Apple-a-Day
200
Lack of experience, academic background, and inadequate training are examples of this
What are Challenges for SC/SP
200
A 9-step, ethical decision-making model to guide SC through the interventions necessary to help the students.
What is STEPS
300
Bazooka, Blanche, and Cake are all street names for this substance
What is Cocaine
300
Family, peers, socioeconomic status, cultural attitude are a few examples of this.
What are Environmental Factors
300
A free classroom-based substance abuse prevention program for 7th and 8th graders that’s proven to reduce the experimental and continued use of drugs. Overall, it is a skills-based curriculum that teaches teens how to say “NO.”
What is Project Alert
300
Knowing the warning signs, the crowds that their child is hanging with, ways to effectively talk to their children regarding drugs, the dangers, and the consequences of using drugs are examples of this.
What are Key Concepts Parents/Families should know
300
Consider the setting, parental rights, and minor’s rights
What is the 4th "STEP"
400
This substance heightens user’s empathy levels and creates a feeling of closeness to people around them. It is often used at rave parties to increase participant's sociability and energy levels.
What is Ecstasy
400
The tier that has the goal of preventing the development of problematic behaviors through the use of universal prevention programs.
What are tier 1 interventions
400
A High School program that's highly interactive, skills-based, and designed to promote positive health and personal development for high school students.
What is Botvin Life Skills Training
400
A good resource for parents/families to understand drug abuse, prevent it, and intervene when their child is using drugs.
What is Drugfree.org (Partnership for drug-free-kids)
400
Stated or implied threats to others, whether in a drug-induced state or not, requiring immediate action.
What is Danger to Others
500
This substance is the silent epidemic among teens- most commonly used drug by Americans 14 years and older after alcohol and marijuana.
What are Prescription Drugs
500
The tier that has the goal of decreasing problematic behaviors and leading at-risk youth to become more responsive to universal interventions.
What are Tier 2 Interventions
500
This High School drug prevention curriculum provides students in grades 9-12 with the drug abuse knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy decisions and resist the pressure to use drugs and say no to drugs.
What is Courage to Speak Foundation
500
A good resource for parents/families after their child receives treatment.
What is Continuing Care
500
One of the few areas in which most agencies, governing bodies and practitioners agree is that confidentiality can’t be maintained when imminent danger exists.
What is Duty to Report