Project SUCCESS
Ages: 14-18
Contact: Ellen Morehouse, M.S.W., CASAC, CPP
Student Assistance Services Corporation
660 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone: 914/332-1300, Fax: 914/366-8826
E-mail: sascorp@aol.com
Project SUCCESS is a selective and indicated program designed to prevent
and reduce substance use and abuse among high-risk, multiproblem
adolescents in alternative schools. This project places highly trained
professionals in alternative schools to provide a full range of substance
abuse prevention and early intervention services. Project SUCCESS
counselors use the following intervention strategies: information
dissemination, normative and prevention education, problem identification
and referral, community-based processes, and environmental approaches.
In addition resistance and social competency skills such as communication,
decisionmaking, stress and anger management, problem solving, and
resisting peer pressure are taught. Counselors primarily work with
adolescents individually and in small groups, conduct prevention/education
discussions and programs, train alternative school staff, coordinate the
substance abuse services and policies of the school and refer and follow up
with students and families needing substance abuse treatment. Project
SUCCESS links the school to the community's continuum of care. Both
youth and parents are referred, when necessary, to human services
agencies, community groups, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD)
prevention and treatment agencies, and other organizations.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program (PDF), 2001