Prevention Program

Too Good for Drugs

Grades: K-12

Contact: Susan K. Chase
601 S. Magnolia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33606
Phone: (800) 750-0986, Fax: 813/251-3237

Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors relating to alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among students in kindergarten through high school (5 to 18 years old). Developed by the Mendez Foundation, Too Good For Drugs has a separate, developmentally appropriate curriculum for each grade level designed to develop:

Personal and interpersonal skills relating to alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) use
Appropriate attitudes toward ATOD use
Knowledge of the negative consequences of ATOD use and benefits of a drug-free lifestyle
Positive peer norms

Teaching methods are highly interactive and engage students through role-play, cooperative learning, games, small group activities and class discussions. Students have many opportunities to participate and receive recognition for their involvement. Teaching methods model and encourage bonding with prosocial others. TGFD also impacts students through a family component used in each grade level: "Home Workouts" is available for use with families in kindergarten through 8th grade, and "Home Pages" is used in high school.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program, 2002