Alcohol Prevention Programs
Learn to Grow provides various prevention resources to the community focused on alcohol use prevention. To insure that the community is receiving the best quality information, we use evidence based curriculums to educate the youth and other community members such as Project Northland, and Prime for Life. Project Northland provides empowerment education for youth middle school to high school age; and Prime for Life provides education for community members of all ages.
To further promote alcohol use prevention, Learn To Grow, Inc. implements environmental change strategies geared to toward community-level change. Those seven strategies are:
Provide Information - Educational presentations, workshops or seminars, and data or media presentations (i.e. public service announcements, brochures, billboard campaigns, community meetings, town halls, forums, Web-based communication).
Enhance skills - Workshops, seminars or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff (i.e. training, technical assistance, distance learning, strategic planning retreats, parenting classes, model programs in schools)
Provide support - creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection (i.e. providing alternative activities, mentoring, referral for service, support groups, youth clubs, parenting groups, Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous).
Enhance access/reduce barriers - improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize systems and services (i.e. access to treatment, childcare, transportation, housing, education, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity).
Change consequences (incentives/disincentives) – increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduce risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (i.e. increasing public recognition for deserved behavior, individual and business rewards, taxes, citations, fines, revocations/loss of privileges).
Change physical design – Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (i.e. parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, outlet density).
Modify / Change policies - Formal changes in written procedures, bi-laws, proclamations. Rules or laws with written documentation and/or voting procedures ( i.e. workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures and practices, public policy actions, systems change within government, communities and organizations).
In addition to providing education to the community using evidence-based curriculums and environmental change strategies, Learn to Grow, Inc. promotes positive social norms because “all youth” are not using or abusing alcohol.