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PY/PM: Program Goals
The goal of the curriculum is to prevent injury and death of children and youth due to
- underage consumption of alcoholic beverages, and
- vehicle-related risks, especially as passengers in vehicles in which the driver is not alcohol-free.
Long Term Goals of PY/PM:
- To reduce the incidence and prevalence of psychoactive substance use/abuse among children/youth
- To reduce the incidence and prevalence of children/youth riding with impaired drivers
- To reduce the incidence and prevalence of injury and death to children/youth while riding with impaired drivers
Immediate Goals of PY/PM:
- To prevent or delay the onset of psychoactive substance use/abuse, especially of alcohol, by youth
- To reduce the number of children riding with impaired (unsafe) drivers
- To increase the number of children who know how to protect themselves when they have no option but to ride with an impaired (unsafe) driver
Objectives:
- To increase knowledge of how the
human brain develops and the negative impact of exposure to non-prescribed
psychoactive substances on the brain, particularly the negative
impact of alcohol on the developing brain up to age 21, among
students in grades 1 through 5;
- To maintain non-use attitudes
regarding psychoactive substance use/abuse, particularly about
products containing alcohol, among students in grades 1 through
3;
- To maintain, reinforce and increase non-use
attitudes regarding future psychoactive substance use/abuse,
particularly future use and abuse of products containing alcohol,
among students in grades 4 and 5;
- To increase social skills, especially resistance
skills and decision-making skills, among students
in grades 1 through 5; and
- To increase media-awareness with
regard to advertising of alcoholic beverages among students in
grades 1 through 5
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