Health and Life Skills - 2006/2007 School Year
SMART Moves
The SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) program helps young people avoid four of the most immediate threats to their well-being: alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and premature sexual activity.
SMART Moves uses age-specific modules that engage Club Staff, parents, community members and other teen members in a team approach to prevention. Therefore, depending on age, Club members will participate in the following:
SMART Kids: for ages 6-9; focuses on building self-esteem, positive social skills and the skills to avoid drugs and other harmful influences.
Start SMART: for preteens ages 10-12; Presents information and skills needed to resist pressures to get involved in alcohol, tobacco, other drugs or sexual activity. Group members analyze influences from the media and from peers; they also practice resisting peer pressure.
Stay SMART: for teens ages 13-15; provides information about alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and sexuality and develops skills to help teenagers make healthy choices. Teens practice problem solving and decision making, stress reduction techniques and ways to resist peer and media pressures.
The SMART Moves program will begin in
September and will be incorporated into our Education, Outreach,
Social Recreation, and Youth Sports programs.
After school, there will also be SMART Kids programs
running at the Barron School, and Start SMART and
Stay SMART programs offered at the Woodbury Middle School.
Please contact Rachel Hill with any questions.
ALL afterschool programs
incorporate SMART Moves.
Theater-Theater members are teaching each
other about gateway drugs by writing and performing their own
skits.
Social Recreation-Programs focus on educating members 10
and older about gateway drugs by running trivia contests.
Arts and Crafts-Projects incorporate SMART Kids ideas
into after school art projects.
Athletics-Programs work the SMART Kids philosophy
into the game schedules for the 6-9 year olds by using
athletics to help them learn.
Education-Homework Help incorporates
SMART Moves by using the internet to research statistics
and drug cases involving youth and stressing the importance of education.
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