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Prevention
Prevention
Prevention is the first line of defense against illegal drug use and underage drinking. The Hawai'i Drug Control Plan has establish effective drug prevention programs that are long-term and comphrensive.
Reach Out Now National Teach-In
What is Reach Out Now? Since 2002, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Scholastic Inc., have collaborated to provide school-based, underage alcohol use prevention materials in time for Alcohol Awareness Month each April. This two-part set of materials is designed especially for use by fifth-grade students, their families, and their teachers. The materials are sent to fifth-grade classroom teachers nationwide each year.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Too Smart To Start is an underage alcohol use prevention initiative for parents, caregivers, and their 9-to-13 year-old children.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is the sole Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The Center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.
Truancy refers to students' unexcused absences from school. Concern about truancy typically focuses on these unexcused absences. However, any school absence—excused or unexcused—as well as missed classes and tardy arrivals can affect students negatively.
Protecting You/Protecting Me is an Underage Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum for children in grades 1-5. PY/PM helps reach children before they have fully shaped their attitudes and opinions about alcohol use by youth and their role in preventing it. The curriculum focuses on the effects of alcohol on the developing brain during the first 21 years of life.