Protecting You/Protecting Me

Program goals

The goal of the curriculum is to prevent injury and death of children and youth due to:

underage consumption of alcoholic beverages, and
vehicle-related risks, especially as passengers in vehicles in which the driver is not alcohol-free.

To reduce the incidence and prevalence of psychoactive substance use/abuse among children/youth
To reduce the incidence and prevalence of children/youth riding with impaired drivers
To reduce the incidence and prevalence of injury and death to children/youth while riding with impaired drivers

To prevent or delay the onset of psychoactive substance use/abuse, especially of alcohol, by youth
To reduce the number of children riding with impaired (unsafe) drivers
To increase the number of children who know how to protect themselves when they have no option but to ride with an impaired (unsafe) driver

To increase knowledge of how the human brain develops and the negative impact of exposure to non-prescribed psychoactive substances on the brain, particularly the negative impact of alcohol on the developing brain up to age 21, among students in grades 1-5;
To maintain non-use attitudes regarding psychoactive substance use/abuse, particularly about products containing alcohol, among students in grades 1-3;
To maintain, reinforce and increase non-use attitudes regarding future psychoactive substance use/abuse, particularly future use and abuse of products containing alcohol, among students in grades 4 and 5;
To increase social skills, especially resistance skills and decision-making skills, among students in grades 1-5; and
To increase media-awareness with regard to advertising of alcoholic beverages among students in grades 1-5