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Peer Helping.
Training of middle school and high
school youth in communication skills. Participants learn skills to
communicate more effectively with their peers, friends, and family with
emphasis on being a better listener. Strategies are taught with a
hands-on approach, along with discussion of topics of concern chosen by
the youth themselves.
Conflict Management
Training.
Educate students in problem solving by teaching the skills of
conflict negotiation and resolution. Students need to know how to
manage and resolve conflicts if they are to become responsible members
of school and of society. Conflict Management is taught in fifth,
sixth, eighth and the high school levels.
Mentor Training.
Provides the skills and training to be a mentor. The goal
is to formally match youth with youth or youth with adult to form a
sustained relationship through continued involvement. This
relationship offers support, guidance, and assistance as the younger person
goes through a difficult period, faces new challenges or works to correct
earlier problems.
Pregnancy Prevention.
An educational / motivational
program that encourages young men and women (ages 12-16) to accept shared
responsibility of pregnancy prevention by illustrating the consequences of
premature and unprotected sexual activity, motivating them to make
responsible decisions about sex and examine the high cost of parenting and
are encouraged to think twice about the realities of teen parenthood.
It is taught in seventh, eighth and ninth grade.
All Stars.
An interactive program to prevent
alcohol and drug use, violence, and premature sexual activity among
middle school youth. The All Stars program focuses on five
strategies that research says will decrease young people's chances of
being involved in these behaviors.
Coalition Building.
Assists communities in developing
an organizational framework that involves individuals, groups and
organizations working together to build strengths and reduce risks in
their communities. These people learn how to assess and prioritize
needs and create positive changes within the community.
Drug Free Workplace.
We are able to bring the "Creating
a Drug-Free Iowa Workplace" education program to businesses and agencies
in Clayton County, Iowa. We assist businesses to implement any and
all components of the drug-free workplace program including developing a
drug-free workplace policy, an employee assistance program, Iowa's drug
testing law and basic alcohol and drug education.
Tobacco Education.
We promote and implement tobacco
prevention curriculum in all school districts in Clayton County, Iowa
and encourage / engage high school students in tobacco control
activities. We promote the "Freedom from Smoking" cessation
program. We also promote and encourage smoke-free restaurant
environments. We offer education on health risks of tobacco use
and encourage smoke-free workplaces. We also encourage healthy
smoke-free lifestyles to pregnant and parenting moms. |
