Delphi delivers a wide range of services including classroom presentations for students, skills development workshops, training sessions for parents and teachers, and positive alternative activities for youth.

The Prevention Education programs are targeted toward students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The programs are designed to assist schools in teaching students the skills they need to lead a safe and drug free lifestyle.

Lessons are designed to meet the National Health Standards and designed in a way to enhance each districts health education and character education curricula.

Prevention Programs Offered to School Districts:

HEALTHY MINDS-HEALTHY BODIES (Grades K,1,2):

The goal of this program is to help young children develop skills, which are necessary for leading a healthy, productive life. This program includes information on medicine safety, refusal skills, anger management, problem solving skills and communication skills.

PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS: A CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAM: (Grades 3,5)

This a violence prevention program developed for third  and fifth grade students that meets for eight, 40-minute sessions.  The lessons also include parent-child homework activities that serve to reinforce the lessons and provide opportunities for skill application. The goal of this program is to help children understand the meaning and basic skills of conflict resolution. The program is focused on teaching tolerance, anger management, communicating feelings and needs, empathy, and resolving conflict without hurting others.

ANTI-BULLYING-VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS(Grades 2-4):

The Assertiveness- Bullying Program consists of six, 40-45 minute lessons. The program is designed to address bullying at the elementary school level grades 2-4. Students learn how to develop healthy relationships, maintain or fix established relationships, and to avoid unhealthy relationships.  They examine loyalty as they learn how to listen to others, stand up for themselves and others (for example, in resisting drugs and in responding to ridiculing and bullying behaviors), and help one another stay safe.  They learn to act with integrity as they express personal opinions and feelings in constructive ways.

MEDIA RESISTANCE-ADVERTISING (Grades 3-5)

ADVANCED ASSERTIVENESS/CYBER BULLYING (Grades 6-8)

In this program students will learn communication skills, relationship skills, and assertiveness skills. We also teach students about bullying/harassment, dealing with rumors, online journaling and text messaging (IM), stress and anger management in addition to practicing appropriate online communication etiquette. This program consists of eight 45 minute sessions.

At schools across the country, many students are accessorized with the latest cell phones, computers  and iPods and access to social networking sights. Children are especially tech-savvy, having grown up alongside computers, the Internet, and cell phones, and many connect with friends several times a day through email, text messages, social networking  sites, or instant messaging. But along with the convenience and communication that these high-tech innovations provide, the potential for negative experiences has also emerged. Cyber bullying is using technology to threaten, insult, or harass. These technologies allow for aggressive expression toward others that doesn’t rely on physical strength or even physical contact.

PROJECT ALERT is a school-based prevention program for middle or junior high school students that focuses on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalant use.  Project ALERT is organized into a three-month, eight-session curriculum taught during the seventh grade, followed by three "booster" sessions presented in the eighth grade that are designed to reinforce the lessons learned from earlier material.

The Steps To Respect program is a research-based program that utilizes the best available evidence and thinking about bullying prevention and how to address it in schools.  The program combines adult training, skill practice for students, school wide rules that address bullying behaviors, and family awareness components. “Steps To Respect” has a total of eleven 40-minute sessions.

Get Real About Violence is a research – based, nationally recognized, violence prevention program. Students learn skills to change the attitudes, behaviors, and norms that lead to violence. There are 3 modules, with a total of 12-18 lessons. The lessons can be taught in one grade level, or spread out to 2-3 grade levels.

In addition Delphi teaches a skills based piece to identify ways for students to address these norms.

RECONNECTING YOUTH (Grades 9-12):

Reconnecting Youth, called "RY" for short, is a school-based group/classroom approach to building life skills for high-risk students. RY is a science-based program that has been recommended by the U.S. Dept. of Education as a curriculum that helps reduce drug use and violent behavior. RY is listed as one of the country’s top ten research based violence prevention programs in Safe Schools, Safe Students and recognized by The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) as one of the nations top ten substance abuse programs.

RY is designed to be a class in a high school's curriculum.  The program is delivered in daily class sessions, typically a period long, during regular school hours. The RY course is five months (or one semester) long.

RY is unique in that it:...

• Is a comprehensive, sustained, semester-long intervention
• Is psycho-educational (i.e., integrates small-group work and life-skills training models); includes a peer-group support component
• Is explicitly designed to modify known risk factors linked with school dropout, drug use, depression, and youth suicide risk
• Is explicitly designed to enhance personal and social protective factors
• Has demonstrated effectiveness for increasing school performance and for reducing drug involvement and suicide risk.

PATHS -- (Promoting Alternative Thinking):

PATHS is a universal curriculum for all elementary school students. It is designed to be taught 2-3 times per week, 20-30 minutes per session. The Paths curricula promotes social competencies and reduces aggression and behavior problems in elementary aged school children.

Delphi's Skillbuilder's program at Williamson Elementary Schools

Delphi is licensed by NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.   The staff is highly qualified to address a multitude of issues that schools, children and families are now facing. In addition,  the  program is tailored to meet each of the individual school district concerns based on the districts own needs assessment and survey results from the community

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