Children of Alcoholics Week (February 14-20)
February 8, 2010
This international event helps provide resources and strategies for youth who have or are experiencing the difficulties associated with growing up in a home where one or both parents are alcoholics. The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoa) supports efforts that eliminate harmful effects ...
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Afternoons ROCK in Indiana
Afternoons ROCK in Indiana is an after school drug prevention program for youth aged 10-14 years. The acronym "ROCK" represents the mission of the program to provide Recreation, Object lessons, Culture and values and Knowledge via active and entertaining Evidence Based and Supportive Prevention Activities... Full Story »
designed to teach youth about social and media influences, conflict resolution and refusal/resistance skills, gang and violence prevention and the structuring of leisure time to be free of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.
Since the program's inception in 1997, the Indiana Prevention Resource Center has been contracted by the Family Social Services Administration, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, to provide technical assistance to 14 Local Prevention Services Coalitions that bring the Afternoons ROCK in Indiana program to targeted youth in each of Indiana's 92 counties. Indiana Prevention Resource Center staff provide extensive technical assistance and support for the Afternoons ROCK in Indiana program including comprehensive support in the areas of contract requirements, data management, program management, program design and implementation, as well as evaluation. The Indiana Prevention Resource Center strives to encourage the incorporation of state-of-the-art prevention research and theory into a community-level prevention practice based on "best practices" strategies for prevention.
To learn more, please visit
the ROCK website.
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