Build your knowledge and skills with prevention-focused training designed for youth, parents, educators, community members, and professionals. Training topics include suicide prevention, mental health, substance use prevention, bullying prevention, child safety, medication safety, and more. Sessions can be tailored to your audience, needs, and available time. Explore our training opportunities to find a workshop or program that can help strengthen prevention efforts in your school, organization, or community.
Empowering Communities Through Prevention Training
Teens Teach Prevention
Teens Teach is a collaboration project through Prevention Consultants of Missouri (PCM), Drug-Free Communities (DFC), and area school districts. They provide training, presentations, scripts, and outlines for high school students to teach substance use prevention to their peers in grades 6th-8th. Lessons include Vaping/THC +Wellness and Alcohol + Wellness.
Benefits of Teens Teach Prevention
- Students gain confidence in public speaking & teaching.
- Younger students are more likely to engage in peer-taught lessons and retain the information longer.
- Students have increased positive attitudes towards school, teachers, and self.
- Students practice teamwork & collaboration
- Presentations augment previous prevention education from evidence-based programs such as Too Good for Drugs.
What are the requirements?
Schools will select students, form teams, and send students to the training session. Selected students are expected to attend one of the initial training sessions. PCM and DFC provide the students with their presentations, scripts, and outlines. Students choose their 3-4-person team with their sponsor (typically a school counselor). These teams will set their own practice/meeting schedule. Teams are required to present to classrooms 4 times during the school year.
Contact Information
david@preventionconsultants.org
(573) 368-4755
Too Good for Drugs
Skills development is at the core of Too Good for Drugs, a universal K-12 prevention education program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use. The lessons introduce and develop skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, developing self-efficacy, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure and influence.
Too Good for Drugs / Maximizing Life teaches five essential character development skills to build self-efficacy, promote healthy development, and academic success:
- Setting Reachable Goals
- Making Responsible Decisions
- Bonding with Pro-Social Others
- Identifying and Managing Emotions
- Communicating Effectively
Too Good for Drugs is being taught in all three county school districts.