Help older elementary and middle schoolers learn how to be a stronger person with good friends and a plan for the future!
Course Goals
- Teach the qualities of choosing a true friend and being a true friend.
- Facilitate the process of setting long and short-term goals.
- Teach and explore personal rules and coping skills that enhance self-control and avoidance of substances.
- Explore scenarios that have a high probability of turning into a risky situation.
- Facilitate healthy coping strategies between parents/caregivers and their teens.
Lesson 1: Choosing a Friend/Being a Friend
Key Skills:
- Critical analysis identifying qualities of a true friend.
- Reflection on their own character qualities of true friendship.
- Recognize why friendship is important to our lives.
Lesson 2: Setting Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
Key Skills:
- Timeline reflection of who they want to be in the next 6 months
- In the next year
- In high school.
Lesson 3: Self-Regulation and Boundaries
Key Skills:
- Analyze techniques to develop personal rules that support their future vision of who they want to be (their future self).
- Practice skills to support that vision by avoiding THC products during adolescence.
- Learn coping skills you can use when feeling anxious.
Lesson 4: Recognizing Risky Situations and Communication Skills
Key Skills:
- Use verbal and non-verbal techniques from a repertoire of refusal skills others have used
- Analyze difference between aggressive and assertive techniques
- How to say no and still keep your friends.
Lesson 5: Communicating with Parents/Caregivers
Key Skills:
- Understand your personal risk factors
- Learn how your environment can contribute to your risk factors
- Discover how genetics can play a part in your risk factors