Program Goals:
Develop leadership skills.
Increase social competencies.
Strengthen personal commitment.
Focus on the importance of positive peer relationships.
Develop skills for resisting risky behaviors, i.e. drug use.
Increase resistance to all forms of drug use and violence.
Understand the risks of using alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Program Benefits:
Learning leadership skills.
Building positive peer/adult support systems.
Increasing develomental assets.
Receiving support for making drug-free choices.
Having opportunities to interact with other students making healthy life choices
Having opportunities to examine personal beliefs about risky behaviors.
The Winners' Choice Camp
Overnight camps for 7th graders that promote making healthy choices and forming positive peer support systems. Students learn leadership, decision-making and resistance skills. Both high school and adult leaders staff the camps.
Middle and High School Youth Group Training
One-day training in which students and advisors develop skills for organizing and leading club meetings and activities. Participants learn methods that prepare teens to take the lead with adults supporting them. For high school and middle school clubs (students and advisors).
Spread the Spirit
An all-night fun-filled program with speakers, team building and decision-making activities that reinforce students' drug-free lifestyle. The event also reconnects Franklin County students who participated in other student programs.
Youth to Youth International Summer Conference
A 4 day, 3 night program for high school students from around the world. The program encourages and increases teen skills in providing leadership at their school.