Education and Prevention:
School Programs
Project Alert
Project ALERT serves 2000 6th grade school 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?
For more information please contact us.
Mailing Address
TOGETHER!
418 Carpenter Rd. SE Ste 203
Lacey, WA 98503
Phone
(360) 493-2230 ext 20