Youth Programs
Botvin LifeSkills Training Highschool program
is a substance abuse and violence prevention program based on more than 35 years of rigorous scientific research. Proven to be the most effective evidence-based program used in schools today, the program is comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote mental health and positive youth development. In addition to helping kids resist drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, the Middle School program also effectively supports the reduction of violence and other high-risk behaviors. This program is aligned to the National Health Education standards and to CASEL’s social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies.
Botvin LifeSkills Training MiddleSchool Program
is a highly interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and personal development for youth in highschool. This program is designed to reduce teen drug abuse by helping adolescents navigate the challenges of their high school years and preparing them for the independence and responsibilities that they will encounter as young adults. The High School program uses developmentally appropriate, collaborative learning strategies to help students achieve competency in the skills that have been shown to prevent substance use, violence, and other health risk behaviors. The program is also comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote mental health, social-emotional (SEL) skills and positive youth development.
Botvin LifeSkills Training Elementary School Program
is a comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally appropriate substance abuse and violence prevention program designed for upper elementary school students. This highly effective curriculum has been proven to help increase self-esteem, develop healthy attitudes, and improve their knowledge of essential life skills – all of which promote healthy and positive personal development and mental health. LifeSkills Training is comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote mental health and positive youth development.
Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES)
focuses on the youth in the program. Youth in the YES program work to change the community as a way to prevent youth violence. In YES, youth are part of the solution; they have power to make decisions about how to make their community more peaceful and stop youth violence. Youth and adults work together to accomplish the program goals. YES is a program that includes empowering processes for youth. It helps youth develop the skills they need to assess their community, and it gives them decision-making power in developing and implementing community change projects. YES empowering activities help youth avoid risky behaviors and develop into productive, healthy adults.
Youth Participatory-Action Research (YPAR)
is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development in which young people are trained to conduct systematic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them. YPAR is a cyclical process of learning and action – research is done not just for the sake of it but to inform solutions to problems that young people themselves care about. YPAR teaches young people to make a difference, and is an especially powerful approach for young people who are experiencing marginalization due to racism, sexism, classism, or other forms of oppression.
Live Respect Delaware
this gender-specific, evidence-informed program is designed to decrease dating violence, sexual assault and bullying.The ultimate goals of the curriculum are to promote healthy, respectful manhood; decrease language/actions that degrade women, girls and other marginalized groups; challenge harmful cultural and social norms; and decrease instances of bullying and homophobia.
Catch My Breath
this gender-specific, evidence-informed program is designed to decrease dating violence, sexual assault and bullying.The ultimate goals of the curriculum are to promote healthy, respectful manhood; decrease language/actions that degrade women, girls and other marginalized groups; challenge harmful cultural and social norms; and decrease instances of bullying and homophobia.
Mentorship, Education, Employment and Trust (M.E.E.T.)
provides guidance and direction for at- risk youth, by creating jobs and opportunities. In addition, it constructs a platform to promote and assist in higher education. Finally, MEET builds trust by serving as a linchpin between organizations and their neighborhoods.
