Partners in Prevention Fund: Programs Offered
- Families Reunite is a program developed by Fairfax County Public Schools for parents who will soon reunite, or recently have reunited, with their children in the United States. The program teaches parents to understand and address the stressors of reunification, including differing expectations, feelings of loss, acclimating to a new environment, and understanding the American education system.
- 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- to 14-year-old children and their parents.
- The Healthy Relationships Plus Program uses open dialogue and role playing to engage students ages 12-18 in enthusiastic discussions about peer pressure, help-seeking, media literacy, healthy and unhealthy peer and dating relationships, and healthy communication. The Healthy Relationships Plus Program involves teens in education about safety and risk in order to build their resilience for future difficulties.
- Making Proud Choices! An Evidence-Based, Safer-Sex Approach to Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention is an eight-module curriculum that provides adolescents with the knowledge, confidence and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex.
- CATCH My Breath aims to prevent the initiation of e-cigarette use (vaping) among preteens and teens. The program works to ensure youth resist their own curiosity, peer and advertising pressure to experiment with e-cigarettes; understand that e-cigarettes are addictive, unhealthy, and not as popular as they think; and influence friends and peers not to use e-cigarettes.
- The Healthy Youth Prevention Education (HYPE) program, developed by the Fairfax County Department of Family Services, is an eight-session curriculum that teaches students, teens, and other youth about dating violence and sexual violence prevention. Through hands-on activities, multimedia, role play exercises, and facilitated discussions, teens will have opportunities to examine different aspects of relationships and to develop skills to identify and replicate healthy behaviors.
