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Protecting You/Protecting Me: Implementation Models
For every school and community, we offer an implementation model that's right for you. Sites may implement one or both models.
Choice of implementation models:
- Youth Implementation - High school students enrolled in a leadership/peer helping or service-learning class
- Adult Implementation
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School faculty/staff
b. Community-based programs that serve schools
- Combination of Youth and Adult Implementation
Youth Implementation Model
The youth-led implementation model of PY/PM involves high school students enrolled in a leadership, mentoring, mediation or service-learning class for credit to deliver the PY/PM lessons to elementary students in grades one through five. Under the supervision of their teacher as part of their coursework, they prepare and present the lessons to grade school students. Peer helpers delivering the curriculum are alcohol, tobacco and other drug free.
Ideal project sites are those high schools with well-established peer leadership/helping programs with a teacher who is willing to accept all the responsibilities involved in implementing the program including attending a three-day National Teacher Training Institute, a minimum of 22 carefully selected students who are available to attend PY/PM training provided by the teacher and teach the lessons, and strong administrative support.
Training is available several times per year for educators conducting peer leadership/helping courses. The training will equip the teachers to train their peer helping students to deliver PY/PM to elementary classes.
In the evaluation of the PY/PM curriculum peer helpers were found to be as effective, and in some areas even more effective, as the adult classroom teachers. In other settings, adolescent peers have done as well as or better than adults in teaching about general health (Meyer, Nicholson, Danish, Fries, & Polk, 2000), smoking (Prince, 1995), and HIV/AIDS (Dunn, Ross, Caines, & Howorth, 1998).
To learn more about the Youth Implementation Model and bringing this model to your community, click here.
For a complete up-to-date training schedule with registration forms, click here.
Adult Implementation Model
Elementary faculty and staff: Classroom teachers, guidance counselors, nurses, social workers, prevention specialists or other school staff who have regular contact with children in the classroom in grades 1-5 are all appropriate to deliver the curriculum in the adult implementation model.
Community agencies: Utilizing staff from community-based agencies serving the school, especially those who work in prevention, is another avenue for adult-led curriculum delivery. This could include staff from: local prevention agencies or councils, law enforcement including School Resource Officers, community outreach specialists and underage drinking prevention specialists.
Training for the adult implementation model is available in two formats: in-person and online.
To learn more about the Adult Implementation Model and bringing this model to your community, click here.
Combination of Youth and Adult Implementation Models
PY/PM implementation is not limited to one model or the other; schools and communities may use both implementation models simultaneously or in succession. At schools where every classroom in grades 1 through 5 cannot be reached via one implementation model, the school may use a combination of the models. A school may also begin with Adult Implementation Model as the required class structure is created at the high school. The school may then choose to either transition into the Youth Implementation Model or to continue with the Adult Implementation Model in some classes while introducing the Youth Implementation Model in other classes.
No matter the implementation model, the PY/PM curriculum is exactly the same
If you're interested in implementing PY/PM – youth or adult-led – and would like to know if and/or how it's already being implemented in your community, please contact us at pypminfo@madd.org
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