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

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

Long Term Goals of PY/PM:

• 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

Immediate Goals of PY/PM:

• 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

Objectives:

1. 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;
2. To maintain non-use attitudes regarding psychoactive substance use/abuse, particularly about products containing alcohol, among students in grades 1-3;
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;
4. To increase social skills, especially resistance skills and decision-making skills, among students in grades 1-5; and
5. To increase media-awareness with regard to advertising of alcoholic beverages among students in grades 1-5