NCJ Number
165467
Journal
Intervention in School and Clinic Volume: 31 Issue: 5 Dated: (May 1996) Pages: 313-318
Date Published
1996
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Best Practices in Prevention is a curriculum for preventing drug abuse and violence and was developed at Project Oz, a nonprofit drug prevention and crisis intervention agency in Illinois.
Abstract
Clinical and research findings have demonstrated that the presence of a physical, mental, or psychological disability places an individual at increased risk for drug abuse problems if the individual chooses to use drugs. The Best Practices curriculum provides a series of activities and lectures for children in grades six or seven who have mild or moderate disabilities or no disabilities and are in settings ranged from general education classrooms to special education settings. Its three components are drug education, life skills, and violence prevention. Topics include coping with anger, goal setting, self-protection, appreciating differences, specific drugs, the causes of drug abuse, AIDS prevention, communication, self-concept, decisionmaking, refusal skills, conflict resolution, and stress management. The materials are arranged in units that may be taught together or separately, in or out of sequence. The curriculum uses the inclusive strategies of guided notes, cooperative learning, peer teaching. Activities address all four learning styles. Photograph, figures, note, and 14 references