
Prevention Education ServicesDelphi 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:DELPHI'S SKILLBUILDERS PROGRAMS:HEALTHY MINDS-HEALTHY BODIES 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. |
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PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS: A CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAM: 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. |
"Sara Karpie Teaching at Williamson Elementary School"
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Healthy Minds Healthy BodiesThis a violence and drug prevention program developed for fourth graders. It meets for ten, forty minute sessions. The goal of this program is to help students develop skills necessary for leading healthy and productive lives. These "life skills" include assertiveness training, refusal skills, communication skills, and dealing with peer pressure and its consequences. A student workbook has been developed to accompany this program. ANTI-BULLYING-VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS 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 ADVANCED ASSERTIVENESS/CYBER BULLYING 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 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. STEPS TO RESPECT 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: 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. |
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RECONNECTING YOUTH 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:...
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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
For additional information regarding Delphi's prevention education programs please email:
Ronni Boyars at rboyars@delphidrug.org or Sarah Karpie at SKarpie@delphidrug.org
Through our diverse programs, Delphi successfully assists individuals, families and the community by working to find solutions to these serious problems. Drug and alcohol abuse and chemical dependency devastate individual, families and communities without regard to age, gender, race or socio-economic group.