Components and Objectives
Eight interwoven components appear throughout the Too
Good for Drugs and Violence After-School Activities: Goal Setting,
Decision Making, Managing Emotions, Bonding and Relationships, Communication,
Conflict Resolution, Drug Awareness and Community Involvement.
The following is a list of objectives within each component.
Goal Setting
. Define "goal."
. Identify the importance of setting goals.
. Describe ways to set and achieve goals.
. Select and achieve a personal goal.
. Discuss how safe and healthy choices help a person to reach his or
her goals.
. Discuss how unsafe, unhealthy choices can prevent people from reaching
their goals.
Decision Making
. Discuss personal responsibility for making safe and healthy choices.
. Discuss the importance of stopping to think before making a decision.
. Recite the steps of a decision-making model.
. Consider possible consequences and alternatives.
. Demonstrate how to make safe and healthy choices.
. Discuss the effect of social influences, such as peer pressure, on
decision making.
. List strategies for resisting peer pressure to make poor decisions.
. Demonstrate strategies for resisting peer pressure to make poor decisions.
Managing Emotions
. Recognize feelings in oneself and others.
. Express feelings with words instead of acting out.
. Think of mistakes as positive learning experiences.
. Practice impulse control.
. Demonstrate ways to calm down.
. Differentiate between positive and negative ways of handling feelings.
. Discuss how to deal with stress, frustration and anger in healthy,
positive ways.
Bonding and Relationships
. Define "friend."
. Describe how to choose a friend.
. Demonstrate cooperation with others.
. Demonstrate a variety of friendly behaviors and social skills.
. Demonstrate celebrating differences.
Communication
. Discuss the importance of stating needs and feelings clearly.
. Differentiate between I-messages and You-messages.
. Use body language, facial expressions and tone of voice to reinforce
messages.
Conflict Resolution
. Discuss the importance of calling each other by name instead of name-calling.
. Differentiate between cooperation and competition.
. Demonstrate cooperation.
. Demonstrate brainstorming.
. Discuss the ways in which differences between people make life more
interesting.
. Discuss conflict as normal.
. Describe a variety of effective ways to deal with a bully.
Drug Awareness
. Describe the harmful effects of marijuana.
. Describe the harmful effects of tobacco.
. Describe the harmful effects of alcohol.
. Describe the harmful effects of inhalants.
. Recognize the addictive nature of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
. Discuss the effects of alcoholism/drug addiction on self, family and
friends.
. State a personal commitment to be drug free.
Community Involvement
. List community resources.
. List community needs.
. Discuss finding one's special place as a contributing member of the
community.
. Develop a community service project.
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