Growing up is a risky business. It’s a fact. Developmental risks coupled with environmental risks make the journey through adolescence tough. Every kid needs positive role models and supportive people to help along the way. Every kid needs to learn and practice essential life skills to better navigate the challenging passage to adulthood.
Simply stated, we as educators and caring adults need to help reduce the risks and increase the protective factors in their lives. At its best, prevention education does just that, by helping kids bond with positive peers, providing information about the risks, and building skills that make growing up a little less risky and a lot more fun.
What is Too Good?
Too Good is comprehensive drug and violence prevention education. When followed by Too Good for Drugs & Violence High School, Too Good for Drugs K-8 and Too Good for Violence K-8 comprise a consistent, sequential and comprehensive K-12 prevention education program designed to teach kids that they are indeed too good for drugs and violence. Taught in a classroom setting and intended to benefit all students, Too Good K-12 programs effectively reduce risk factors and build protective factors that all kids need, and provide the basis for a safe, supportive and respectful learning environment. Too Good also offers the after-school program to extend prevention education beyond the school and into the community.
Too Good is science-based programming. Too Good programs are based on an accepted Theory of Change. They use strategies and teach key behavioral skills that research has shown to be related to good decision making and positive outcomes. Too Good programs are proven effective in evaluations that apply rigorous, systematic and objective procedures to obtain reliable and valid program data across evaluators, across multiple measurements and across studies.
Too Good is User-Friendly Teaching Materials. Too Good programs have been developed by and for classroom teachers. Using role-plays, games and other age-appropriate activities, they are easy to use and fun to teach. Too Good programs provide background information, extensive resources, scripted lessons, teaching materials and lesson extenders—everything educators need to make the lessons effective and rewarding.
Too Good Delivers
Too Good for Drugs K-8 provides facts about alcohol, tobacco and other drugs—facts that help kids set goals and make good decisions that contribute to their health and well-being. Program lessons and activities give kids skills for managing emotions, communicating effectively, making positive friendships, countering social influences, analyzing media messages and refusing peer pressure. Its sound instructional methods build self-efficacy and promote pro-social attitudes and behaviors in fun and engaging ways. The Too Good for Drugs program complements Too Good for Violence K-8. learn more...
Too Good for Violence K-8 teaches strong character-based skills, attitudes and behaviors. Kids develop skills for conflict resolution, anger management, respect for self and others, and effective communication—keys to social-emotional intelligence. Program lessons and activities help kids realize that as individuals and as a group, they are too good for bullying and violence, as they gain skills for, and confidence in their ability to interact cooperatively and peacefully. The Too Good for Violence program complements Too Good for Drugs K-8. learn more…
Too Good for Drugs & Violence High School builds on the core concepts of Too Good for Drugs K-8 and Too Good for Violence K-8. This program expands drug prevention education to deal with issues prevalent in this age group, such as underage and binge drinking, tobacco use, use of illegal drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and methamphetamine, and abuse of prescription and over-the-counter medications. In addition, it builds skills for decision making, communication, media literacy and conflict resolution, as well as making and maintaining healthy relationships. learn more…
Too Good for Drugs & Violence After-School Activities takes Too Good knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors beyond the classroom. Designed for non-classroom venues, this program complements the Too Good K-8 school-based programs with fun and engaging activities that reinforce and strengthen the prevention message by providing kids with opportunities to practice essential life skills in other settings. learn more…
