Youth & Adult Prevention Programs

Groups

HCCADA offers groups for student’s 2nd through 12th grade. Groups meet once or twice a week for about 45 minutes, meeting for at least 10 separate sessions.

YPU (Youth Prevention Universal)– Positive Action

This program is available for all grade levels, from 2nd to 12th. As a universal initiative, it is delivered to entire classrooms, ensuring that all students participate unless parents choose to opt their child out.

Positive Action is a comprehensive social-emotional learning curriculum designed to help children build essential self-management skills and foster responsible decision-making. Through this program, students gain self-awareness and develop the social-emotional competencies needed to thrive both in the classroom and in life

YPI (Youth Prevention Indicated) – CBSG Youth Connection

This program is designed for students aged 14–18 who are identified as being at higher-than-average risk for drug use. This includes youth who may be involved with the legal system due to drug-related issues, are struggling academically, or have dropped out of school.

The program utilizes an evidence-based curriculum proven to reduce drug use effectively. Over 10 weeks, participants work on building resilience and enhancing essential social skills. By strengthening these areas, students are better equipped to cope with challenges in healthier ways, reducing their likelihood of turning to drugs as a coping mechanism.

Middle / Junior High Curriculum

YPU – Too Good For Drugs

This program targets all youth in 6th – 8th grade. The curriculum used for this program is an evidence-based program built around a framework of social and emotional skill development such as goal setting, decision making, effective communication, peer pressure refusal, pro-social bonding, conflict resolution, and media literacy.

Too Good For Drugs also promotes academic achievement, alignment with education standards and priorities, and healthy and supportive classroom management.

This program is a series of 10 sessions, 45 minutes each.

YPS – Youth Connection

This is a Selective program, meaning that the youth we work with are at a higher-than-average risk for drug use. There are many factors that may play into why the child is at higher risk: parents are in recovery for drug use, death of a parent or caretaker because of drug use, parents incarcerated, unstable home environment, disciplinary problems at home or school, or parents going through divorce with no healthy adults to support and mentor children while going through this process.

One of the curricula we use is Youth Connection, by Rainbow Days. This is an evidence-based curriculum that has been proven successful in reducing drug use. SACADA Staff has been specially trained to teach this curriculum. The program is a 10-week program that works on the children’s resiliency and social skills. By enhancing these skills, a child is less likely to use drugs as a coping mechanism.

This program can be taught to children in 6th -8th grade.

High School Curriculum

YPU – Project Toward No Drug Abuse

This YPU program works with all youth in 9th – 12th grade, using the Too Good For Drugs curriculum. The Project Toward No Drug Abuse curriculum is evidence-based and teaches students how to have better relationship skills, increase self-esteem, fight stereotypes, and set short- and long-term goals.

This program is not for youth who are already experimenting with drugs or experiencing legal issues due to drug use. The intention of this program is to continue to educate youth about the consequences of drugs use.

This is a 12 session program, 45 minutes per session.

YPI – Project Toward No Drug Abuse

This program is for youth ages 14 – 18 who are at a higher-than-average risk for drug use. This may include students who are involved with the legal system because of drugs, who are failing academics, or who have dropped out of school. The Project Toward No Drug Abuse curriculum is evidence-based and teaches students how to have better relationship skills, increase self-esteem, fight stereotypes, and set short- and long-term goals.

In addition to the curriculum, students meet one-on-one with group facilitators to see what resources our prevention specialist may be able to offer or refer them to. The facilitator then does a follow-up on any referrals given.

YPI – Youth Connection

This program is for youth ages 14 – 18 who are at a higher-than-average risk for drug use. This may include students who are involved with the legal system because of drugs, who are failing academics, or who have dropped out of school.