Project ALERT
“Easy to adopt. Proven to work.”.
Beginning fall of 2008, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office will introduce a new program to the middle school youth of Rowan County. Officers from the Sheriff’s Community Safety, Drug Education, and School Resource units will begin introducing students that attend county schools within the Rowan-Salisbury School System to Project ALERT. Project ALERT will replace the current Drug Awareness Resistance Education (DARE) that was previously offered.
The core strategies include motivating students against drug use, providing skills and strategies to resist drugs, and establishing new non-use attitudes and beliefs. This is a two year program with fourteen lessons (11 core and 3 booster programs).
Project ALERT is a nationally recognized, middle grade presentation program that gives students insight, understanding and actual skills for resisting substance abuse. Named an Exemplary Model Program, Project ALERT is proven to reduce the onset and regular use of substances among middle grade youth. The two-year, fourteen-lesson program focuses on the substances adolescents are most likely to use; alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. The success of Project ALERT is evidenced by the fact that more than 24,000 educators use the program each year.
For additional information visit: www.projectalert.com