Grades: 6-8
To Order: Best Foundation
725 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 1615
Los Angeles, CA 90017-5416
Phone: 800/ ALERT-10, FAX: 213/623-0585
E-mail: info@projectalert.best.org
Project ALERT is a social resistance-skills curriculum for ethnically mixed students consisting of 11 weekly lessons in the sixth or seventh grade and three booster lessons in the seventh or eighth grade. Key components include counteracting beliefs that most people use drugs, developing reasons not to use drugs, identifying the sources of pressures to use drugs, and building a repertoire of skills to resist pro-drug pressures. Parent involvement is encouraged through home learning opportunities. Research shows that Project ALERT has decreased marijuana and alcohol use among seventh graders and marijuana and cigarette use among eighth graders.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program
Drug Strategies, 1996
US DOE Expert Panel,
Exemplary Program