Winners Sankofa
The Avalon Carver Community Center in Los Angeles developed Winners Sankofa, an African-centered model for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug youth prevention practices that aim to counter the deleterious effects of poverty, school failure, substance abuse, incarceration, and environmental challenges facing African-American youth. The Winners Sankofa model is delivered in modular form and consists of written activities…
Rainbow Days
Rainbow Days is a multi-cultural preventive intervention designed for children and youth ages 4-17 who are at high risk for substance use and other socio-behavioral problems. The program brings participants together in small group settings, where they develop skills related to handling difficult family situations, resisting negative peer pressure, setting and achieving goals, making healthy choices, and refusing alcohol, tobacco, and drugs…
Media World
Media World is a media literacy program designed for high school students to analyze media messages about substance use. The program contains 12 classroom-based core lessons that are 50-60 minutes long and have optional supplements. Students explore advertising tactics, media regulations…
Media Ready
Media Ready is an interactive media literacy program designed to help sixth through eighth grade students develop critical thinking skills and prevent substance use. The program uses 10 45-minute sessions that give students opportunities to explore advertising techniques, identify target audiences, and critically assess marketing tactics. At the end of the curriculum, students create counter-ads to…
Media Detective
Media Detective is an activity-driven media literacy program designed to prevent alcohol and tobacco use among third through fifth graders. The main program consists of ten 45-minute interactive sessions, where students analyze advertisements and media messages through a structured curriculum grounded in social cognition, substance use prevention, and media literacy research. Other related products include Media Detective Family Night…
Project Towards No Drug Abuse
Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is a high school drug prevention program for youth who are at risk for drug use and violence-related conduct. Project TND focuses on three factors that can predict alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use: motivation, skills, and decision-making. The…
Healthy Futures
Healthy Futures is an alternative-to-suspension program designed for middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes, other tobacco products, or cannabis, and those exploring quitting. The program offers self-paced, free courses (nicotine or cannabis-focused)…
Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit
The Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit (CAPT), developed by Stanford Medicine’s Research and Education to Empower Adolescents and Young Adults to Choose Health (REACH) Lab, is a theory-based, evidence-informed educational resource aimed at preventing and delaying cannabis use…
Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit (TPT), developed by Stanford Medicine’s Research and Education to Empower Adolescents and Young Adults to Choose Health (REACH) Lab, is a theory-based, evidence-informed curriculum designed to prevent tobacco and nicotine use among middle and high school students…