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LifeSkills Training Program substance Abuse Council of Indian River County Indian River County CSAC <br /> C. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION (Entire Section C, I — 6, not to exceed two a es) <br /> 1. List Priority Needs area addressed. <br /> Mental Wellness Issues <br /> 2. Briefly describe program activities including location of services. <br /> The LST program is a three year prevention program designed to be conducted in school classrooms. <br /> Based on Theoretical framework, the LST program was developed to impact drug-related knowledge, <br /> attitudes and norms; teach skills for resisting social influences to use drugs and promote the development <br /> of general personal self-management skills and social skills. Consistent with this, the LST program can be <br /> best conceptualized as consisting of management skills. The second component focuses on teaching <br /> general social skills. The third component includes information and skills that are specifically related to <br /> the problem drug abuse. The first two components are designed to enhance overall personal competence <br /> and decrease both the motivations to use drugs and vulnerability to drug related social influences. The <br /> problem specific component is designed to provide students with materials relating directly to drug abuse <br /> (drug resistance skills, anti-drug attitudes, and anti-drug norms). Services are provided in Indian River <br /> County Middle Schools. This year we propose to serve high school students also. <br /> The LST program is a primary prevention program that targets individuals who have not yet developed <br /> drug abuse problems. The goal of the program is to prevent the use of gateway substance use among <br /> adolescents by making an impact on risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and <br /> marijuana use, particularly occasional and experimental use. <br /> Simultaneously a systematic community awareness campaign is conducted. It is designed to impact <br /> community norms and educate the community regarding the incidence of substance abuse. On the FYSA <br /> Survey, Indian River County scored higher than the State and other like Counties in the following risk <br /> factors areas: <br /> • Poor Family Supervision • Poor Family Discipline <br /> • Family History of Antisocial Behavior • Parental Attitude Favorable to ATOD use <br /> • Parental Attitude Favorable to Antisocial • Friends Use of Drugs <br /> Behavior <br /> • Peer Rewards for Antisocial Behavior • Youth Attitude Favorable to ATOD use <br /> • Youth Attitude Favorable to Antisocial • Perceived Risks of Drug Use <br /> Behavior <br /> • Early Initiation of Drug Use • Sensation Seeking <br /> According to Center for Substance Abuse prevention (CSAP), Selected Findings In Prevention, A Decade <br /> of Results from the Center For Substance Abuse Prevention, 1997, the findings indicate that the proposed <br /> strategies above are effective with this target population. They demonstrated repeated documentation that <br /> adolescent risk perceptions were favorably impacted by reducing favorable parental, peer and community <br /> attitudes towards ATOD. <br /> We must take these facts and information and as with all knowledge, empower ourselves and educate our <br /> youth and community. The LST program is a research based, proven effective curriculum in the reduction <br /> of adolescent drug usage and has been endorsed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The LST <br /> program was selected by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), University of <br /> Colorado at Boulder as a Blueprint 2000 program and OJJDP selected the LST program for replication <br /> nation-wide and is 1 of only 11 programs that is considered "exemplary" by all program evaluators. <br /> 6 <br /> 113 <br />