Education and Prevention:
School Programs
Project ALERT
Project ALERT serves hundreds of 6th- and 7th-grade students a year.
Project ALERT is a nationally recognized, evidence-based curriculum for middle school students that gives insights, understanding, and skills to resist using substances, especially alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants – those substances most abused by teens.
Stopping drug use before it starts is the most effective way to protect our children from the dangers of drugs. Health teachers, local law enforcement officers, WA National Guard Drug Demand Reduction Unit soldiers, and contracted teachers provide the instruction.
The curriculum is currently being used at selected schools in North Thurston Public Schools and the Olympia School District.
TATU
Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), is a peer-education program in which middle and high school students are trained to teach elementary students about the hazards of tobacco use.
A program that challenges teens to answer:
Why has the tobacco industry spent over $100 million in Washington State alone advertising their product? And why are youth their main target?
Why is tobacco, the only product on the market that used as intended will hurt or kill you, still legal?
Why are cigarette ingredients not listed on the pack?
How is tobacco the number one cause of preventable death?
Social Norms
Tumwater High School has, through TOGETHER!, implemented a Social Norms campaign, which uses posters to teach students the real numbers behind alcohol and drug use. It shows them the majority of kids do NOT use these substances, reversing negative peer pressure. The statistics in the posters are of THS students, based on a survey the students took the previous year. A new poster is put up around the school each month.
Here is TOGETHER! Operations Director Meghan Sullivan talking about Social Norms and showing some of the posters:
For more information please contact us.
Mailing Address
TOGETHER!
418 Carpenter Rd. SE Ste 203
Lacey, WA 98503
Phone
(360) 493-2230 ext 20
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