Grades: 1st - 5th
Contact: Kappie Bliss
Elementary Programs/ Mothers Against Drunk Driving
611 South Congress Avenue, Suite 210
Austin, TX
Phone: 512/693-9422
Fax: 512/693-9435
E-mail: pymp@madd.org
Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a 5-year, classroom-based alcohol-
use prevention curriculum for elementary students in grades one through five
(6 to 11 years old). Designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our
nation’s youth, PY/PM:
- Is proven to change children’s knowledge about their brains and personal development
- Increases children’s intentions not to ride with an impaired driver
- Improves children’s vehicle safety skills—their ability to protect themselves when they have no option
but to ride with an adult who is not alcohol-free
Because the program is delivered in elementary school, it reaches children before
they have fully formed their attitudes toward alcohol. The curriculum:
- Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
- Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
- Includes parental involvement activities
The program can be taught by trained high school students, as well as by teachers,
with high school student teachers deriving short-term outcomes including reduced
alcohol use and increased perceptions of the risks of underage alcohol use.
All program materials are available in English and Spanish.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program, (PDF), 2003