Porject Alert
Project ALERT is a two-year, 14-lesson program that focuses on the substances that adolescents are most likely to use: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. The project is aimed at middle school adolescents.
Project ALERT uses participatory activities and videos to help:
- Motivate adolescents against drug use.
- Teach adolescents the skills and strategies needed to resist pro-drug pressures.
- Establish non-drug-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. Parent-involved homework assignments extend the learning process.
According to its web site, the project has been effective with adolescents from a variety of backgrounds, including urban, rural and suburban committees as well as Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American youth from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds.
According to a study by RAND, students that received Project ALERT:
- Reduced initiation of marijuana use by 30%.
- Decreased current marijuana use by 60%.
- Reduced past month cigarette use by 20-25%.
- Decreased regular and heavy smoking by 33-55%
- Substantially reduced students' pro-drug attitudes and beliefs.
Source: www.projectalert.com
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