Safe and Drug Free Schools & Communities
Safe, Drug Free Schools & Communities
The LCSD1 Safe & Drug Free Schools Department offers research-based programs and services to change student’s attitudes towards drugs and violence, bullying prevention, suicide prevention as well as improve healthy development and enhance a healthy, safe school climate. For more information about any of our Safe & Drug Free Schools and Communities programs listed below, please call 307-771-2204 or contact your school principal.
Prevention Programs
Elementary Level
- Prevention Kits - Materials to educate students about the hazards of alcohol, tobacco, drug use and violence, stranger awareness, health promotions, and cyber safety and awareness. Materials also teach life skills necessary for healthy development and positive relationships.
Secondary Level
- Aggressors, Victims and Bystanders Prevention - Aims to prevent or reduce violence by altering thought patterns and actions that lead students to become involved in violence.
- Project Toward No Drug Abuse - Helps high school youth (14-19 years old) resist substance use. Project TND teaches participants increased coping and self-control skills.
- Anger Management Strategies - Teaches adolescents to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives.
- This Way Out: Freedom from Tobacco - Students participate in a program to reduce their tobacco use. Students examine the hazards, undesirable effects, cost of tobacco use and ways to abstain from tobacco use.
- Young Men’s Work/Young Women's Lives - Peer-based support group that helps male/female students form allies, understand the social context in which violence occurs and learn ways to reduce personal aggression.
Elementary & Secondary Schools
- Building Developmental Assets - Workshops are provided to school staff, students and the community on how to build assets, factors that protect against failure among students.
- Olweus Bullying Prevention Program - A systemic, mandatory, research-based, K-8 Bullying Prevention Program.
- Sources of Strength - A systemic, mandatory, research-based, 9-12 Bullying Prevention Program.
- Second Step Violence Prevention/Steps to Respect - Teaches social and emotion skills to K-9 students.
- Lifelines - a suicide prevention program.
Prevention Campaigns
- Red Ribbon Week - Nationwide alcohol, drug, tobacco, and violence prevention campaign.
- Kick Butt Day - A campaign to increase awareness of the hazards of tobacco use and to promote quitting smoking among teens.
- Random Acts of Kindness Week - Violence prevention.
- Yellow Ribbon Week - Suicide prevention.
- Prom Promise - Consequences of drug and alcohol use/abuse.
- Anti-Bullying March/Campaign
Resources
LCSD1 is pleased to provide the following resources for a ensuring safe and drug free environment for all our learners:
LCSD1 Safe & Drug Free Schools
LCSD1 is also pleased to offer the following resources to parents, students, teachers and community members. These resources include program kits, activity books, DVDs, books, and more. For more information, please call 307-771-2204 or contact your school principal.