APPENDIX E

CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS

City of Philadelphia

Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services

Substance Use Services Provided in Schools

Below highlights the prevention services available to students and that is coordinated through DBHIDS and the School District’s Office of Prevention and Trauma. All schools have some prevention programming (i.e. SAP Student Assistance Program). The list below includes additional programs that may be selected through conversation between the providers and the SDP’s Office of Prevention Intervention and Trauma to determine additional programs that are a best fit for their school. High needs schools, such as in Kensington, have received program expansion from the prevention providers. Programs funded by Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs unless otherwise noted.

Program Populations Purpose

1 Student Assistance Program

Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

2 Incredible Years Preschool and Elementary School Students

To assist school personnel in identifying issues including Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) and mental health issues which pose a barrier to students’ success. Services include screening/assessment, consultation, referral and/or small group education for SAP identified youth.

To promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat behavioral and emotional problems in young children (2 to 12 years old) through three comprehensive, multi-faceted, and developmentally based curricula for parents, teachers, and children.

3 Life Skills Training (LST) Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

To provide elementary students, middle school/junior high students, and high school students with the necessary skills to resist social pressure to smoke, drink, and use drugs; helps them develop greater self-esteem, self-mastery, and self-confidence; enables children to effectively cope with social anxiety; increases their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance misuse; and enhances cognitive and behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of health risk behaviors.

Program Populations Purpose

4 Nurturing Parenting Programs

The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices. The long-term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol misuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.

5 Positive Action (PA) Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

Positive Action is an integrated and comprehensive curriculumbased program that is designed to improve academic achievement; school attendance; and problem behaviors such as substance use, violence, suspensions, disruptive behaviors, dropping out, and sexual behavior. It is also designed to improve parent–child bonding, family cohesion, and family conflict. All materials are based on the same unifying broad concept (one feels good about oneself when taking positive actions) with six explanatory sub-concepts (self-concept, positive actions for your body and mind, managing yourself responsibly, treating others the way you like to be treated, telling yourself the truth, improving yourself continually).

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To help students understand the consequences of drug use, recognize the benefits of nonuse, build norms against use, and identify and resist pro-drug pressures. Project ALERT is a school-based prevention program for middle or junior high school students that focus on alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use through small-group activities, question-andanswer sessions, role-playing, and the rehearsal of new skills to stimulate students’ interest and participation. It seeks to prevent adolescent nonusers from experimenting with these drugs, and to prevent youths who are already experimenting from becoming more regular users. Based on the social influence model of prevention, the program is designed to help motivate young people to avoid using drugs and to teach them the skills they need to understand and resist pro-drug social influences.

Program Populations Purpose

7 Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND)

High School Students Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND) is a drug use prevention program for high school youth. The current version of the curriculum is designed to help students develop selfcontrol and communication skills, acquire resources that help them resist drug use, improve decision making strategies and develop the motivation to not use drugs. It is packaged in 12 40-minute interactive sessions to be taught by teachers or health educators. The TND curriculum was developed for highrisk students in continuation or alternative high schools. It has also been tested among traditional high school students.

8 Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12thgrade that builds on students’ resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers. The program introduces and develops social and emotional skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure. TGFD teaches five essential social and emotional learning skills:

1. Goal Setting

2. Decision Making

3. Bonding with pro-social others

4. Identifying and managing emotions

5. Communicating effectively

9 CATCH My Breath Middle and High School Students CATCH My Breath is a youth E-cigarette and JUUL prevention program developed by. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. The program provides up-to-date information to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of E-cigarettes, including JUUL devices. CATCH My Breath includes active student-centered learning facilitated by peer leaders. The program offers in-class activities, teacher education, online resources, and take-home materials for parents. The program’s key learning objectives include knowledge of-cigarettes and potential harms, understanding and analyzing deceptive advertising techniques, developing, and practicing socially acceptable refusal skills and practicing peer modeling techniques in small groups.

Program Populations Purpose

10 The Council for Boys and Young Men

The Council is a strengths-based approach to promote boys’ safe, strong, and healthy passage through preteen and adolescent years. Using the Council program model, professional mentoring/counseling services, and trained volunteers, the program introduces healthy role models and promotes prosocial behaviors. The Council follows a structured, group curriculum and uses incentives for participation. Each week, for 10weeks, a group of boys of similar age and development meet with two facilitators for two hours. Boys are encouraged to attend for ten weeks or more to get the full benefit of the Council model.

11 Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD)

Elementary and Middle School Students

Includes alcohol and other drug environmental activities such as policy change, social norms marketing and town hall meetings. EXCLUDES Tobacco-related environmental activities, which are recorded under Tobacco Prevention Activities.

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Elementary and Middle School Students

Includes alternative activities such as ATOD-free recreational and/or social opportunities, recognition events and leadership/ mentoring activities. 13

Elementary and Middle

Includes community-based process activities such as multiagency collaboration, marketing and developing programs, assessing community needs, and strategic planning.

14 ATOD Education

Youth and Adults Includes alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs prevention education activities. This includes educational programs intended to develop life skills such as refusal skills, decision making and stress management.

Youth and Adults Includes information dissemination activities such as health fairs, speaking engagements, and distribution of brochures, flyers, newsletters, PSAs, etc.

Funded by Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs

Program Populations

16 ATOD Materials Development

Youth and Adults

Purpose

The creation of original documents and other educational pieces for use in information dissemination activities related to substance misuse and its effects on individuals, schools, families, and communities. Services under this category include audiovisual materials, printed materials, newsletters, public service announcements, and resource directories.

Funded by Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs

17 ATOD Non-SAP Problem ID and Referral Activities

Elementary, Middle and High School

Includes problem identification and referral activities such as risk screening, referral to services and follow-up. EXCLUDES screening, referral and follow-up done as part of the Student Assistance Program.

Funded by Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs

18 Beginning Alcohol and Addictions Basic Education Studies (BABES)

Elementary, Middle and High School

Beginning Awareness Basic Education Studies (BABES) is a primary prevention program designed to give children a lifetime of protection from substance misuse. BABES accomplishes this by assisting young people to develop positive living skills and by providing them with accurate, nonjudgmental information about the use and misuse of alcohol and other drugs.

19 PA STOP Campaign Youth and Adults

20 Tobacco Prevention Activities

21 Narcan Training and Distribution

Youth and Adults

Youth and Adults

This strategy is used to capture activities associated with the dissemination and marketing of the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance’s PA STOP campaign which includes education around issues such as opiate misuse.

Types of services included under this program include tobacco education, training, compliance checks, etc.

Since 2016, DBHIDS has offered the opioid overdose prevention and Narcan rescue training in support of bringing awareness to the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia. The training explains the Good Samaritan Act 139 & Pennsylvania’s Standing Order for Naloxone (Narcan) identifies how to recognize signs and symptoms along with risk factors that occur during an overdose. Individuals learn how to administer the life-saving medication and receive Narcan kits once they have completed the training.

Funded by Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD)

Program Populations Purpose

22 STEP Elementary, Middle and High school Students

The STEP initiative provides mental health, behavioral health and social service support to students and families in select District schools. Each STEP team has a combination of STEP positions that can include a STEP Clinical Coordinator, a STEP School Behavioral Consultant, a STEP Case Manager and a STEP Family Peer. This team of mental health professionals can provide therapy, case management, behavior planning and peer support as well as consult on school wide initiatives with a trauma informed lens. Students and families are wrapped in thoughtful, consistent, and culturally responsive services that can and should lead to better outcomes for students in the classroom and in the community.

Funded through HealthChoices

23 Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)

Elementary, Middle and High School Students

Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) support children, youth, and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs.

OBHS offers a wide array of services that meet the needs of these individuals in their homes, schools, and communities. IBHS has three categories of services:

1) Individual services which provide services to on child:

2) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) which is a specific behavioral approach to services; and

3) Group services which are most often provided to multiple children at a specific place. Evidence- based treatment can be delivered through individual services, ABA services and group services.

Funded through HealthChoices