Grades: 7-9
Contact: National Health Promotion Associates, Inc.
141 S. Central Avenue, Suite 208
Hartsdale, NY 10530
Phone: 800/293-4969, FAX: 914/683-6998
E-mail: lstinfo@nhpanet.com
The Life Skills Training Program (LST) addresses a wide range of risk and protective factors by teaching general personal and social skills in combination with drug resistance skills and normative education. LST is a universal, primary, school-based drug abuse prevention program that targets individual adolescents, typically in school classrooms. The goal of the program is to prevent tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse among adolescents. The designated program consists of a three-year prevention curriculum intended for middle school and junior high students. The three major content areas are personal self-management skills, general social skills, and drug resistance skills and information.
Thirteen rigorous evaluation studies, spanning more than 15 years all demonstrated strong evidence of positive treatment effects extending over long periods of time.
CASEL, Strength
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention,
Model Program, (PDF)
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Model Program
Drug Strategies, 1996
NIDA
US DOE Expert Panel,
Exemplary Program