Partners in Prevention Fund Programs
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Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices is
a nationally recognized, resilience-based early childhood
curriculum and teacher training program designed to develop
social-emotional skills, self-control, problem-solving abilities
and healthy decision-making in children ages 3 – 8 years. The
lessons use guided creative play, brainstorming, puppetry, original
music, role plays, and movement to engage children in the
development of social-emotional competence.
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Lifelines
is a comprehensive suicide prevention program. The goal is to
promote a caring, competent community in which help-seeking is
encouraged and modeled and suicidal behavior is recognized as an
issue that cannot be kept a secret. Lifelines seeks to
increase the likelihood that staff and students know how to
identify at-risk youth when they encounter them.
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Parents Raising Safe Kids is a program designed to help
communities and families create safe, healthy environments that
protect children and youth from violence. The curriculum
helps families and caregivers raise children without violence by
providing basic information on child development, risk factors for
violence and its consequences and protective factors and skills for
effective parenting.
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The Portage
Project is an evidence-based curriculum that is rooted in
the idea that learning takes place in environments that are rich in
interaction underscored by strong personal relationships. The
Partners in Prevention Fund sponsors 15 family child care providers
with the Portage curriculum and a mentor who meets with them
periodically. This program is geared for children ages 0 – 5 years
to provide them with appropriate experiences to help them be ready
for kindergarten.
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Safe Dates is a curriculum that deals with attitudes and
behaviors associated with teen dating abuse and violence. The
program is intended for both males and females. Safe Dates
strives to:
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Raise awareness of what constitutes healthy vs. abusive dating
relationships
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Raise awareness of the causes and consequences of dating abuse
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Equip students with skills and resources to help themselves or
friends in abusive dating relationships
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Equip students with the skills to develop healthy relationships
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The Strengthening
Families program is a family skills training program
designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for
substance abuse, depression, violence, aggression, delinquency and
school failure in high risk, 10 – 14 year old children and their
parents.
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We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and
Nutrition) is a national movement designed to give parents,
caregivers and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13
years old stay at a healthy weight. We Can! provides 4 curricula:
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Youth Act, also known as SOS Suicide Prevention, is a
depression awareness and suicide prevention program. Its
primary objectives are to educate teens that depression is a
treatable illness and to equip them with techniques to respond to a
potential suicide in a friend or family member
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