Reconnecting Youth
Grades: 9-12To Order: National Educational Service
304 W. Kirkwood Ave., Suite 2
Bloomington, IN 47404
Phone: 800/733-6786, FAX: 812/336-7790
To Order: National Educational Service
304 W. Kirkwood Ave., Suite 2
Bloomington, IN 47404
Phone: 800/733-6786, FAX: 812/336-7790
Reconnecting Youth: A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills (RY) is an 80-lesson curriculum that has been proven effective in helping high-risk youth in grades 9-12 raise their GPAs and manage their anger, while decreasing drug use, depression, and suicide risk. The research-based RY curriculum is divided into four major units: Self-Esteem Enhancement, Decision-Making, Personal Control, and Interpersonal Communication. It is unique in that it is a comprehensive, sustained, semester-long intervention that integrates small-group work and life-skills training models to effectively enhance the personal and social protective factors of high-risk youth. A variety of school personnel throughout the nation have been trained by program staff to successfully implement the curriculum.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program, (PDF)
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1997