• Prevention Services—Home
• Coalition Outreach
• Family Education Programs
• School-Based Prevention
• Suicide Prevention

• 
• 
• 
• 

School-Based Prevention Programs

School-based prevention programs are implemented in classroom settings to large groups of students and teach a wide-range of social skills that promote positive youth development.  Programs can also be offered in an after-school setting upon request.

• Peer Mediation School Programs

Peer Mediation in middle and high school settings are very effective in helping students learn to resolve their conflicts more constructively.  Prevention Services staff train youth to become peer mediators in two-day trainings sponsored by middle schools.

• Life Skills Training

Life Skills Training helps students develop a positive self-image.  The program is proven to prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by assisting students in managing stress, expressing their emotions positively, thinking clearly, and making informed decisions.

• Second Step Training

Geared for students in Preschool through Grade 9, the Second Step program teaches children how to manage emotions, resist impulsive behavior, solve problems, and understand the consequences of their actions. 

• Project Northland

This program is designed to delay the age at which young people begin drinking and to reduce alcohol use among young people who have already started drinking.  Preventing the early use of alcohol also reduces the likelihood the teens will use illegal drugs such as marijuana.

• Project TNT

Project TNT (Towards No Tobacco Use) is a classroom-based curriculum designed to prevent or reduce tobacco use in 10 to 15 years olds.  Delivered in 10 core and 2 booster lessons, this program helps young people resist tobacco use, identify how advertisers and the media influence the use of tobacco products, and identify methods for building self-esteem.

• Smoke Free – That’s Me!

The objective of this program is to prevent 4th and 5th graders from starting to use tobacco by educating them about their lungs, social pressures to use tobacco, and how to say “no” to tobacco.

• Not-On-Tobacco

N-O-T is a ten-week, total health approach to adolescent tobacco cessation.  The goal of this program is to improve the lung health of all Virginia youngsters by empowering adolescents to quit or reduce cigarette use.  

• All Stars

This school- or community-based program works to delay the onset of, or prevent high-risk behaviors in middle school students, ages 11 -1 4.  Covering youth substance use, violence, and premature sexual activity, All Starts fosters the development of positive personal characteristics.

• Child Assault Prevention Program

This program seeks to end the sexual victimization of young people through the education of elementary school children as well as adults in their communities.  This 75-minute workshop focuses on children’s problem-solving abilities to help them identify and defuse potentially dangerous situations.