Four Approved Curriculums for Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana

The four curriculums below are approved for use in Afternoons Rock in Indiana.

Project ALERT
Project ALERT is a nationally recognized middle school, substance abuse program that gives students insight, understanding and actual skills for resisting substance abuse. Project Alert addresses tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants, the substances teens are most likely to use.

Project ALERT curriculum was developed and field tested over a ten-year period by RAND, the nation’s leading think tank on drug policy. RAND research demonstrated that teens have a pro-drug mindset, and Project ALERT can have a powerful impact.  Core strategies include motivating students against drug use, provide skills and strategies to resist drugs, and establishing non-use attitudes and beliefs through small group activities, role-playing exercises, and real life videos. Project ALERT can be implemented in conjunction with lessons from sex education, health, physical education, science, and social studies.

All-Stars
All Stars programs reach youth during the years of greatest vulnerability to experimenting with substances, fighting, bullying, and initiating sexual activity. During this period from the last years of elementary school through high school young people experience amazing changes.

During adolescence, young people grow and mature. They change from being concrete thinkers to become abstract thinkers and sophisticated social theorists. The transition through adolescence increases social awareness, a desire to fit in and to gain personal identity and social status.  

All Stars programs match the social and cognitive development of students. The approach is effective because it deals with the root causes of behavior. All Stars targets things that matter using strategies that engage and inspire students.  

All Stars Core, Booster, and Plus target youth during the middle school years (ages 11 through 13), and All Stars Junior is for 4th and 5th grade elementary school students.   

All Stars is based on over twenty-five years of research and practical experience, is interactive, thought provoking and fun.

Positive Action
The Positive Action program (PA) strives to improve society by educating and motivating everyone to do positive actions that lead to success and happiness. The goals are to provide tools for individuals, schools, families and communities to use to carry out this vision.  

The philosophy of the Positive Action (PA) program is that you feel good about yourself when you think and do positive actions, and there is always a positive way to do everything.  PA teaches the philosophy that Thoughts-Actions-Feelings operate in a circle. Thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to feelings about yourself, and feelings about yourself lead to more thoughts. The circle explains the natural process of how we work and the relationships among thoughts and behavior and how they lead to feelings of self worth.  It also shows how positive actions are the only way to get feelings of self worth and are the basis of intrinsic motivation. The philosophy and circle lead to the PA definition of success and happiness which are the same, i.e., feeling good about who you are, what you are doing and how you treat others.

Too Good For Drugs and Violence
Too Good for Drugs & Violence – After-School Activities is a dynamic program that includes activities adapted from award-winning school-based programs, including Too Good for Drugs (K–8) and Too Good for Violence (K–8). Designed for recreation centers, community or after-school settings, these activities augment school-based prevention programs with fun and engaging opportunities to learn and practice prevention skills.

Too Good for Drugs & Violence – After-School Activities builds skills and strengthens healthy development in eight key areas: goal setting; communication; decision making; conflict resolution; managing emotions; drug awareness; bonding and relationships; and community involvement.

Too Good for Drugs & Violence – After-School Activities includes games, songs and stories tailored to a child’s interests and developmental level. Parents are also invited to participate through the use of Home Work Outs. Lessons are tailored to two distinct groups: ages 5–9 and 10–13. 

Children, families, and communities benefit from this positive, consistent message. Teachers and parents report that children who participate and acquire new interests and skills, develop better social skills, handle conflicts in more socially acceptable ways, volunteer in their communities, are less likely to engage in risky behaviors.

Children are influenced by all the environments in which they live. To be truly effective, prevention programs must reach children, schools, after-school programs, homes and entire communities.