School Based Prevention Programs

These programs help educate children to the dangers of drugs and alcohol. In addition, faculty learn the signs and symptoms of these abuses. Some programs go to the extent of having guest speakers, the same age as the students, giving their testimony to how a substance affected them. Many organizations such as the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention and the Department of Education, who made the Truency Reducation Demonstration Program. These two organizations specifically target areas with high truancy rates and offer training on reducing these numbers through reward programs and other incentives (Henry, 2010). The National Association of School Nurses have created “Smart Moves, Smart Choices,” as an education program for substance abuse prevention. Along with, the National Education Association who provide materials to schools and curriculum ideas for integrating prevention programs into the classroom (Schachter, 2012). Within this curriculum, there are short videos that grab students attention along with guest speaker who have first hand experiences with substance abuse. As a more preventative measure, schools are inacting Suspicionless Random Drug testing that can be administered to students in particular schools. More schools are even going to this type of preventative measures. The Office of National Drug Control Policy is actively trying to gather funds for schools to

Children, starting as early as elementary school, are being educated on substance abuse. As of 2013, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, D.A.R.E., administers a school-based substance abuse, gang, and violence prevention program in 75 percent of the United States school districts. Since 1983, 70,000 police officers have taught the D.A.R.E. program to approximately 114 million elementary through high school students in the United States alone ("Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids K-12?"). This program is aimed at preventing drug use in elementary, middle, and high school students. A needle-exchange program implicitly encourages the exact opposite message, condoning immoral and illicit behavior. Governments should focus on discouraging drug use, providing more productive treatment for recovery, and punishing drug users instead of supplying the materials to continue their addiction. Young children have the potential to take more risks and must receive a clear message on drugs, which should coincide with the no tolerance policy they are being taught in school with implementation of the D.A.R.E. program. A needle-exchange program is more of a hopeful harm reduction campaign that sends the wrong message to young children and society as a whole. If there is to be a positive change in America regarding intravenous drug use, then the government and school programs all need to be on the same page; we

It is exceedingly important for schools to ensure a balanced and stable environment that provides safety, well-being, and acceptance to all students. In order to do this, as well as generate a positive communal learning atmosphere that empowers the entire student body of the school and the individual classroom, there needs to be a school-wide positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) system implemented. The defined explanation of PBIS is “a framework for enhancing the adoption and implementation of a continuum of evidence-based interventions to achieve academically and behaviorally important outcomes for all student” (Sugai and Simonsen, 2012). The goal of a PBIS application to a school’s community is to develop appropriate standards

Research has proven that those under the age of twenty one are more likely to be heavy or binge drinkers and more specifically, twenty two percent of all students under the age of twenty one are binge drinkers. There are many beliefs on what is to blame for the irresponsible drinking habits of these teenagers. One popular belief is that because they’re not drinking with other adults or experienced drinkers they are not being guided into the proper direction to being responsible drinkers. However, the main reason is the lack of education on the topic. D.A.R.E. ® is a program executed through local Police Stations that does a Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for a large array of age groups. The program teaches the students about the decisions they have to make in the future and the harms of drugs and alcohol and they teach students in the elementary, middle, and high schools all across the nation. The problem with this program is that they only present their education program once through the course of every student’s public school experience.

Jim Avila from NBC News wrote an article “D.A.R.E doesn’t work” and in his article he said that “DARE is a waste of money” spending over 220million in tax money all that money and it had no beneficial effect on drug use. Annually it cost about 1-1.3 billion dollars, which is like about 173 to 268 per student per year, so say Economist Dr.Edward Shepard, funded by both private and Federal government sources no wonder why US is in debt. Owning other countries tons of money and putting money into programs that are just a waste of time and money. Anyway the program was taught over 50 states, 52 countries reaching 200 million kids, which is about 114 million kids in the US alone. All this program did was take billions and billions of money almost putting us in debt all that money put into a program that really never ever helped kids stop using

America is wasting money on campaigns that don’t work. D.A.R.E, a program that goes to schools in America, hasn’t made any more progress than giving five dollars to a psychopath murderer. (Vance 1) D.A.R.E. is a program that schools use to explain what drugs do to you, and how they affect your life. A national survey on Drug Use and Health led made by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services says; “Drug

Typically, LST is implemented during all three years of middle school. Long-term research on LST has shown that the program is effective through high school. For example, in, five and a half years after baseline data collection, students in the LST group were 23% less likely to try marijuana, 21% less probable to try cigarettes, and 11% less likely to have been inebriated compared to the control group that did not participate in LST. Over 90% of students in both the LST group and control group drank alcohol at least once. Although there were significant results for the initiation of substance use, there were no significant effects of the frequency of substance use between groups. However, the study does suggest that the subgroup of participants who engaged in substance use behaviors before the start of the program decreased their use of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. Public school teachers implemented the LST program, providing evidence for this program’s potential effectiveness in other school settings. However,

My internship is currently at a community agency that is a part of the Community Service Board of Fairfax County, Virginia called Intensive Case Management. The Intensive Case Management program is located in Reston, Virginia. The population that this community agency serves are chronically homeless adults that have a co-occurring disorder of serious mental illness and substance abuse. This agency has seven case managers with a caseload of fifty-two clients. The purpose of this program is to find housing for clients and stabilize their co-occurring disorder so that they can function independently in the community.

One may be astonished to discover that in 2012 “..about 17 percent of American high school students were drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day” and this number has remained relatively stagnant throughout the years (Kuczynski-Brown). The amount of students who take part in the illegal acts of drinking, smoking, and drug use has been difficult to combat. Students do not understand that these substances can result in harmful consequences down the road. This is why it is imperative that, as a society, we begin looking for solutions to defeat these harmful habits, and sometimes, addictions. The earlier we begin to inculcate the effects of these substances on the young, the better. That is why the prime-time to spread this message

In order to effectively reduce drug use, a combination of intense enforcement, rehabilitation, and drug education should be used; all three strategies go hand in hand with each other. Drug education programs aim to stop drug use before it even starts by preventing it from ever occurring. It is key to a long term solution of the reduction of future drug users. It works to intervene and redirect early drug users to more positive and healthy activities. Essentially, education programs allow the prevention of first use from becoming regular use.

According the the Durham Police Department’s 2015 Annual Report, the number of juvenile arrests for youth ages 9 to 17, totaled 686 with crimes such as burglary, vandalism, assault, robbery, and drug violations (Durham Police Department 2015 Annual Report, 2015, p. 15). As resident and native of Durham, North Carolina and potential Human Service Professional, I am left with feelings of hopelessness and dismay after discovering these statistics. Our mission at Walden University is to incite social change in our professions, using the knowledge that we gain from completing our education. Establishing a preventative intervention program represents an opportunity to make an impact on the community where I was raised. Growing up in Durham, I have

Youth should be well educated about consumption of alcohol well before middle school. By the time students reach middle school they are already exposed to alcohol. D.A.R.E, the program that teaches children about alcohol and its effects, should be taught in

Prevention methods for substance abuse are taught to children as early in their kindergarten years and follow throughout their lifetime. Current programs available are school-based programs, parent and family, work programs and community and public media campaigns.

The importance of preventing children from drug usage starts at early ages. Education and school facilities can only occupy children for 7-8 hours a day. The rest of the afternoon leaves children vulnerable to negative influences. Most children use after-school programs as a way to stay out of trouble, escape the turmoil of being abused at home, or spend time with youth instead of being lonely and alienated.

     Some alternatives to this high and strict minimum drinking age could be to give all students a state funded alcohol awareness program while in high school. If students are taught about the risks and dangers of excessive drinking, they will be more likely to refrain from doing it. Nowadays, the courses concerning alcohol awareness are more