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!

For schools that do not have access to school-based clinicians, SSET is designed for teachers and nonclinical school counselors. SSET is a program that can be utilized on grades 5-12 and is a school-based group intervention for students who have been exposed to traumatic events, bullying, depression, and/or are suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

Utilizing this program gives schools the tools and opportunity to address underlying concerns that may be prevention a student from learning in the classroom. Offering a safe environment to implement coping skills and other lesson plans to help students reduce trauma symptoms and improvements in behavior.

To learn more, visit their website!

A program the at specifically designed to speak to use of prescription pain medication, fentanyl, and heroin substance use in youth. The goal of this program is to prevent misuse, educate on risks, how to recognize an overdose, the basics on naloxone (NARCAN) to reverse an overdose, when to call 911, and more. 

Designed for grades 6-12, this educational program can take place in a classroom or small group setting. It was built to fit within various classroom timeframes and aligns with most health curriculums. The NIDA principals of risk and protective factors are weaved into this program, and it also complements the LifeSkills and Too Good Programs from Botvin. 

To learn more, visit their website! 

Or, as we like to call it, a Parenting Empowerment Program. This parenting and family support system is designed to prevent – as well as treat – behavioral and emotional problems in children and teenagers.

We provide a safe, judgement free area for you to learn about different styles of parenting that might be beneficial to your family. We rely on the expertise of trained facilitators and the experience that each parent/caregiver brings. our conversations are informative, casual, and considerate of different parenting styles work for different families.

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.