Tioga County Prevention Offerings

Too Good develops and reinforces steps and planning for kids and youth to set reachable goals, make responsible decisions, identify, and manage emotions, and learn effective communication skills in addition to peer-pressure refusal, pro-social peer bonding, and peaceful conflict resolution skills.

This is a universal K-12 prevention education program designed to help lower risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use. 

To learn more about this program, visit their website!

PAX Good Behavior Game® is an evidence-based universal prevention intervention that is delivered to students by their teachers. Within this practice, teachers can improve students’ self-regulation through daily routines, tasks, and re-enforcing good behavior within the classroom. 

In doing so, children’s self-regulation strengthens, resulting in improved attention during class, better test scores, and so much more! 

To learn more about PAX, visit their website!

Teen Intervene is a brief early intervention program for 12-to 19-year-old individuals who display the early stages of alcohol or drug involvement. Offering education, support and guidance for teens and parents. 

Teen Intervene program helps youth:

• Identify the reasons they have chosen to use alcohol or other drugs.
  • Was this a one-time use?
  • Was peer pressure part of why they used?
• Examine the effects of substance abuse in their lives.
  • Are they getting behind in school?
  • Is it effecting thier relationships with friends and/or family?
  • Are they experiencing a need to use more?
• Learn to make healthier choices.
  • A personalized approach based off their needs.
  • Is treatment with a counselor needed?

Learn more, here.

Girls Circle® is for those, ages 9-18, that identify with female development. Offering a safe, structured support group that is designed to increase positive connection, resiliency practices, personal and collective strengths and more! To learn more about this group, visit their website!

The Council for Boys and Young Men® is a strength-based group approach for those, ages 9-18, who identify with male development and is inclusive LGTBQ+ youth. This group offers a space for finding belonging, build assets, and deconstruct harmful masculinity believes as they journey into manhood. To learn more, visit their website!

PreVenture® is an evidence-based prevention program for youth aged 12-18 that uses personality-focused interventions to promote mental health and reduce the risk of substance use.

Through 2-4 brief workshops, this program aims to equip young people with self-efficacy and cognitive behavioural skills to help them cope with carious developmental challenges that many adolescents face, such as academic stress, peer pressure, interpersonal conflict, and identity development.

It also helps students learn useful coping skills, set long term goals, and channel their personality traits towards achieving them, so that they can thrive in all areas of their lives.

To learn more, visit their website!

An interactive bedroom sequence that brings awareness to common things that kids are hiding in their bedrooms, that don’t look concerning but are. During this session, you’ll be timed to find as many “concerning items” as you can. At the end of the session, we’ll run through items you might have missed and explain the concern about these items being hidden in Shawna’s bedroom. This training can be set up for parents, groups of school staff, etc.