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What's new with Project Northland?
Review the overall changes, examine the changes to each grade level, learn about the features and resources available in the new Program Guide.
Project Northland - program components
Slick Tracy Grade 6
Slick Tracy is the first Project Northland curriculum. With peer
leaders, family-friendly comic books, an exciting poster fair, and popular art from the program's urban edition, Slick Tracy activates learning at home, in the classroom, and in the local community. Curriculum includes Teachers Manual with CD-ROM, 30 Sets of 4 Comic books and Poster
Amazing Alternatives Grade 7
Amazing Alternatives, the second Project Northland curriculum, reduces the social acceptability of alcohol use, encourages alcohol-free alternatives and teaches students to identify and resist influences to drink. With peer leaders, new parent materials, and its updated audio drama, Amazing Alternatives is an engaging, interactive program proven effective in delaying the onset of alcohol use among young people. Curriculum includes Teachers Manual with CD-ROM, Audio CD, 2 Posters
Power Lines Grade 8
Power Lines, the third Project Northland curriculum, empowers eighth graders as emerging members of the adult community. With new parent materials, shared peer leadership, re-enactment of a community controversy, and community projects, Power Lines gives students the opportunity to become positive influences within their community, school, peer groups, and with younger students. Curriculum includes Teachers Manual with CD-ROM and an Audio CD.
Program Guide
The Program Guide provides step-by-step instructions for administrators and program coordinators to implement the Project Northland program. It includes tips and resources to help with funding needs, family outreach, community mobilization, curriculum implementation, environmental change, program evaluation, and program sustainability. This compelling program activates learning at home, in the classroom, and in the local community. Includes Manual with CD-ROM and an informational DVD.
Class Action: A High School Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum
Grades 9-12
by Cheryl L. Perry, Ph.D., Carolyn L. Williams, Ph.D., and Sara Veblen-Mortenson, M.S.W., M.P.H.
Developed by the University of Minnesota
This high-school component of Project Northland looks at the real-world social and legal consequences of underage alcohol use. Based on the social influences theory of behavior change, the goal of Class Action is to change the social norms around alcohol use and to change negative peer pressure into positive peer pressure. In eight to ten weekly sessions, teens are divided into six legal teams to prepare and present hypothetical civil cases in which someone has been harmed as a result of underage drinking. The six cases are Drinking and Driving on Trial, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on Trial, Drinking and Violence on Trial, Date Rape on Trial, Drinking and Vandalism on Trial, and School Alcohol Policies on Trial.
Class Action has been shown to
- reduce increases in alcohol use and intentions to use alcohol in high school by 33% through twelfth grade
- reduce increases in binge drinking in high school by 50% through twelfth grade
- reduce the purchase of alcohol by high school students in off-sale liquor outlets by 80%
The curriculum includes 42 casebooks (seven of each title), one set of six CDs, one teacher's manual with reproducible handouts in a three-ring binder, and 30 each of four parent postcards. Free Spanish translations are available for parent postcards.
