Families For Prevention®

Experience Education, the sponsor organization for Families for Prevention ®, has begun exciting partnerships with organizations across the country who are committed to strengthening families. Please contact us to discuss your organization's needs and possible collaborations. Cooperative projects with such groups as the Southwest Iowa Latino Resource Center, United States National Guard, State Departments of Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha, California State University at Monterey Bay, Girls & Boys Town, and school districts throughout the United States, as well as numerous public and private corporations and foundations, have made Experience Education one of the leading curriculum development groups in the USA.

Schools and PTA Partner with Experience Education

Connecticut PTA announces a first time co-operation with an Omaha, Nebraska non-profit organization, "Experience Education".

In September 1999, the Connecticut PTA entered into an agreement with Experience Education, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization that has been providing services to education for over 32 years. Their primary Mission is to assist parents in developing skills they need to raise and protect their children. Toward this end, Connecticut PTA is providing PTA members with information about the aims, works and services of Families For Prevention®.

For the past five years in Trumbull, Connecticut, the PTA, with the approval of the school administration, has been reaching all second grade parents in their homes with this unique take-home video program on practical prevention and parenting principles. They recently adopted a new program for first grade parents entitled Families For Prevention® of Violence - De-Fusing Violence.

Mr. William Horner, President of Experience Education, will be in attendance at our centennial convention on May 5th and 6th. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about how the parents in your school district can receive the benefits of the Families For Prevention® program.

This first time ever Cooperative Program was developed by Connecticut PTA's Health and Welfare Commissioner, Peggy M. Perillie, with the advice and input of the National PTA. If you would like more information about the program, contact Peg by phone at (203) 377-1474.

SAFER FOUNDATION chooses Families for Prevention® as exemplary research-based model for schools and communities

The Substance Abuse Foundation for Education and Research Charitable Trust (SAFER) is committed to the sponsorship of educational and research programs concerning the prevention of drug and alcohol use and abuse by school-age children. SAFER's goal is to help school districts and other organizations fund and initiate prevention programs that target underlying causes, focus on prevention, and provide long-term results.

Experience Education's Families For Prevention® system has been chosen by the SAFER Foundation as an exemplary research-based model well-suited to carry out the objectives and meet the goals of the Foundation in communities throughout the United States.

For more information on how your school district might seek assistance from the SAFER Foundation, contact the Foundation board members nearest you:

Carolyn B McGuire, Chair
NSA of Maryland/Choice Point
Baltimore, Maryland
Robert Crescenzo, Vice Chair
Lancer, Inc.
Long Beach, NY
Robert A Hirsch, Esq., Treasurer
Alexandria, VA
Vern Jones, Secretary
ASTS
Union Lake, MI
Richard Etter, PhD., Honorary
ARUP Laboratories
Salt Lake City, UT
Kathleen Snapper
Grand Rapids, MI
Cindy Zuber
Southwest Airline
Dallas, EX
Sue Clark-Hufler
SAPACC
Lake St. Louis, MO
Ken Will
SAPAA
Houston, TX

Youth ChalleNGe program chooses Families for Prevention® nationwide

The United States National Guard Bureau is successfully demonstrating how to assist high-school dropouts to become successful, motivated young men and women through its Youth ChalleNGe program. The National Guard has the required infrastructure already in place to support a residency program where organization, planning, self-discipline, and leadership qualities are a common commodity among National Guard personnel.

One key element of the highly successful ChalleNGe curriculum is the teaching of "Life Coping Skills". One of the reasons Families For Prevention® was chosen for all ChalleNGe enrollees was that its video format allows its message of how to cope with alcohol and other drug use by children to reach the parents of enrollees and enrollees themselves in a non-threatening manner.

ChalleNGe staff are using Families For Prevention® in a variety of ways to meet core-curriculum objectives, and to reach parents and younger family members at home.

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