HFM Prevention Council

86 Briggs Street
Suite 5
Johnstown, NY 12095
ph: 518-736-8188
fax: 518-736-8192

Services


Services we provide, include:

  • Alcohol and other drug awareness programs
  • Consultation and referals
  • Victim impact panels
  • Smoking cessation
  • Bus driver training
  • Strengthening families
  • Information displays
  • Annual Choices youth conference
  • Rite Aid Drug Quiz show

  • An Apple a Day

    This program is presented to kindergartners through fourth graders.  It is a literacy based program that builds and reinforces ideas and message that promote a healthy lifestyle and habits.  There are six forty minute lessons for kindergarten and first grade and eight forty minute lessons for second, third and fourth grades.

  • Second Step:  A Violence Prevention Curriculum

    Second Step is designed to promote social competence and reduce social and emotional problems by teaching children skills in the core areas of empathy, emotion management, and social problem solving.  It is a universal prevention program, which means that it is taught to every child in a classroom rather than to selected children.  This program is available to pre=kindergarten and kindergarten classes and is presented in three units. 

SAMHSA Model Programs

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Association has designated several programs as model programs.  This means that these programs have demnostrated that over time youth who participated in the programs had better outcomes than those who did not.  Model programs we offer are...

Strengthening Families

Too Good for Drugs

Project Alert

Reconnecting Youth

Life Skills Training

 

 

 

Prevention Programming

Working with school districts, community agencies and coalitions, the council provides quality research-based prevention programs for youth, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.  Designed to build self-esteem, teach youth healthy alternatives and provide the skills necessary to make good decisions and solve problems, our programs are literacy-based and aligned with NYS educational standards.

Customized programs and presentations can be developed on a wide array of issues including drinking and driving, tobacco education and media literacy for classrooms, after school programs, youth groups, and neighborhood awareness groups.

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86 Briggs Street
Suite 5
Johnstown, NY 12095
ph: 518-736-8188
fax: 518-736-8192