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Youth Prevention / Early Intervention Programs & ServicesAlexandria City Public School Support TeamACPS has teams of administrators, psychologists, social workers, nurses and guidance counselors working to help students with their education and personal problems. They provide testing, counseling and other support services. Call your child’s school for more information. Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices is a resiliency-based early childhood curriculum and teacher training program that develops personal, social, and emotional skills in children 3 to 8 years old. Using 46 interactive lessons, Al's Pals teaches children how to: express feelings appropriately, use kind words, care about others, use self-control, think independently, accept differences, make friends, solve problems peacefully, cope, make safe and healthy choices, and understand that tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs are not for children. The lessons use guided creative play, brainstorming, puppetry, original music, and movement to develop children's social-emotional competence and life skills. For information on specific Al’s Pals groups contact: • Ann Fierstos @ Cora Kelly Elementary School – 703-706-4420 • Amalia Quiñones @ Tucker Elementary School – 703-975-1483 Kids Are Terrific (KAT) Camp: Begun in 1986, this five-week summer camp includes educational sessions on tobacco prevention, negative peer pressure reversal, anger management and nutrition promotion, as well as field trips to the National Zoo, Bowl America and Cameron Run Water Park. There is a family picnic at the end of camp and fifty of the campers who show the greatest leadership skills are rewarded with a trip to Six Flags. For more information, contact James Moore at 703-838-5075. Life Skills Training(LST) is a substance abuse prevention program for grade- and middle- school children. LST teaches personal and social skills to promote individual competence and aims to decrease young people’s vulnerability to pro-substance use-social influences from peers and the media. For more information on LST implementation, contact: • Ann Fierstos @ Cora Kelly Elementary School, 703-706-4420 • Amalia Quiñones @ Tucker Elementary School and Essex House, 703-975-1483 • Sandra Cañas @ Ramsay Elementary School and Community Lodgings, 703-303-8280 Peer Advisors/Counselor Aides program has been an after-school leadership program for at-risk teens since 1985. Starting at the age of 12, Peer Advisors are trained in peer pressure resistance skills, tobacco prevention, anger management and mediation. They act as mentors and role models to younger youth. They receive training in leadership and public speaking and give public presentations on prevention topics. They participate in community service projects. At the age of 15, after volunteering as a Peer Advisor, they become eligible to be hired as part time Counselor Aides with the Community Services Board, where they facilitate prevention programs for younger youth and continue their role as mentors and role models to younger youth. Peer Advisors and Counselor Aides are integral parts of Kids are Terrific Camp. The maximum number of Peer Advisors is 10. The maximum number of Counselor Aides is 9. Participants have weekly staff meetings and training. For more information on this program, contact Theodore Jones at 703-850-6016. Project ALERT is a drug prevention curriculum for middle-school students (11 to 14 years old), which dramatically reduces both the onset and regular use of substances. The 2-year, 14-lesson program focuses on the substances that adolescents are most likely to use: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants. Project Alert use participatory activities and videos to help motivate adolescents against drug use, teach adolescents the skills and strategies needed to resist prodrug pressures, and establish nondrug-using norms. Guided classroom discussions and small group activities stimulate peer interaction and challenge student beliefs and perceptions, while intensive role-playing activities help students learn and master resistance skills. Homework assignments that also involve parents extend the learning process by facilitating parent–child discussions of drugs and how to resist using them. These lessons are reinforced through videos that model appropriate behavior. For more information on Project Alert groups, contact: • Debra Smalley @ Hammond Middle School, 703-505-0005 • Angela Wilbon @ George Washington Middle School, 703-401-8718 Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is a highly interactive program designed to help high school youth (14 to 19 years old) resist substance use. A school-based program, TND consists of twelve 40- to 50-minute lessons that include motivational activities, social skills training, and decision making components that are delivered through group discussions, games, role-playing exercise, videos, and student worksheets. Project TND teaches participants increased coping and self-control skills that allow them to: grasp the cognitive misperceptions that may lead to substance use and express a desire not to abuse substances, understand the sequence of substance abuse and the consequences of using substances, correct myths concerning substance use, demonstrate effective communication, coping, and self-control skills, and state a commitment to discuss substance abuse with others. For more information on TND at each site, contact: • James Moore @ STEP, 703-401-8707 • Debra Smalley @ TC Williams, 703-505-000 • Teddy Jones @ Minnie Howard, 703-824-6755 Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) is a peer leadership organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug use, impaired driving, teen violence and teen depression and suicide. Student/Community Assistance Program: Substance Abuse Prevention Therapists provide substance abuse screening, short term individual or group supportive prevention counseling, education and referral services to youth/parents/school staff/other providers in response to community/school need. Staff also provides community presentations on a variety of prevention and parenting topics. School staff, students, parents and community members receive services and make referrals. See team listing below for contact information. Habla español TC Williams High School – 703-824-6800 Theodore “Teddy” Jones (Tuesdays): 703-850-6016 Debra Smalley (Thurs - Fri): 703-505-0005 Secondary Training & Education Program – 703-824-6631 James “Chucky” Moore (Mon-Fri): 703-401-8717 Minnie Howard 9th Grade Center – 703-824-6750 Theodore “Teddy” Jones (Mon, Wed-Fri): 703-850-6016 Hammond Middle School – 703-461-4100 Debra Smalley (Mon - Wed): 703-505-0005 George Washington Middle School – 703-706-4500 Angela Wilbon (Mon-Fri): 703-401-8718 Cora Kelly Elementary School – 703-706-4420 Ann Fierstos (Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri) Ramsay Elementary School – 703-824-6950 Sandra Cañas (Wed - Fri): 703-303-8280 - Habla español Tucker Elementary School – 703-933-6300 Amalia Quiñones (To be determined): 703-975-1483 - Habla español Ann Fierstos (Thursdays) After School at Charles Houston Recreation Center – Theodore “Teddy” Jones: 571-225-3902 James “Chucky” Moore: 703-401-8717 Debra Smalley: 703-505-0005 Arlandria Health Clinic Family Center – 703-535-7930 Sandra Cañas (Mondays): 703-303-8280 - Habla español Community Lodgings Family Learning Center – 703-739-5856 Sandra Cañas (Tuesdays): 703-303-8280 - Habla español Essex House Apartments Amalia Quiñones (To be determined): 703-975-1483 - Habla español TC Self Defense Class: Twice a week for two weeks during PE class, students are presented with information and activities on anger management, drug education, peer pressure resistance skills and communication skills. This program was developed four years ago in response to work that prevention therapists were doing with at-risk students at the schools. PE teacher Mary “Honey” Lamb-Bowman wanted to make sure that as many students as possible would be exposed to the prevention therapists prevention messages so she invited them to present during her class time. For more information on the TC Self Defense Classes contact Debra Smalley at 703-505-0005. Too Good For Drugs: is a comprehensive school-based drug prevention education program that equips young people with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to remain drug free. The program is based on the latest research around resiliency, risk and protective factors, and developmental assets. Research has identified each of these factors as critical for a young person's successful growth and development. Based on this research, the program builds children's resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers. Students involved with the program receive five essential skills: goal setting, decision-making, bonding with others, identifying and managing emotions, and communicating effectively. TGFD focuses on personal and interpersonal life skills in order to increase children's sense of control, responsibility, and self-efficacy. For more information on TGFD at Cora Kelly, contact Ann Fierstos at 703-706-4420. Campaigns:
http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/events/ndsd/index.aspx
http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2006/default.aspx
http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/events/nasd/index.aspx
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