Prehistoric Pals
Pre-Historic Pals is a puppet based prevention program designed to provide young children with the necessary skills to express and deal successfully with feeling of anger and rage.

Al’s Pals
 Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices is a school-based prevention program that seeks to develop social-emotional skills such as self-control, problem-solving, and healthy decision making in children ages 3-8 in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade.

Forest Friends
Forest Friends is a puppet based asset-building program designed to develop and reinforce resiliency skills in children in grades one and two.

Footprints for Life™
Footprints for Life is a research-based primary prevention program that builds assets and teaches important life skills to students in grades two and three.

Too Good For Drugs – Elementary/Middle
Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) is a school-based prevention program for kindergarten through 12th grade that builds on students’ resiliency by teaching them how to be socially competent and autonomous problem solvers.

Smart Choices
Smart Choices is a program for 5th and 6th graders. The program is designed to deal with the challenges and pressures of pre-teens and teens emphasizing responsible decision making to avoid substance abuse, including alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. The use of playlets, role playing and small group discussion is utilized in 2-3 one-hour sessions.

Botvin Life Skills
LifeSkills Training (LST) is a school-based program that aims to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors. LST is based on both the social influence and competence enhancement models of prevention.

Neighborhood Crime Prevention Initiative
With funding from the NJ Dept. of Law and Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice, Prevention Links was awarded a Neighborhood Crime Prevention Initiative Grant. The program offers law enforcement, criminal justice officials and community stakeholders the opportunity to identify a specific problem in the community, analyze the factors contributing to the problem, and implement a program tailored to the site-specific crime issue.

All-Stars
All- Stars is a multiyear school-based program for middle school students (11 to 14 years old) designed to prevent and delay the onset of high-risk behaviors such as drug use, violence, and premature sexual activity.

 ON T.R.A.C.K.
An original program of Prevention Links, the On T.R.A.C.K. program is a comprehensive afterschool enrichment program which integrates evidence based, life-skills programs with creative arts as a means to help youth develop internal assets and the skills they will need to succeed. Prevention Links currently serves 60 youth annually by partnering with existing afterschool programs

ATOD Prevention Workshop
Prevention Links provides a variety of evidenced-based prevention trainings to the community. These trainings can be on a single topic or a combination of topics. Participants will receive information about the topic covered, the negative consequences associated, programs used to prevent the issue, and what community members can do to help. Workshops can be customized to meet a specific age, topic, or setting.

Keys to Innervisions
Keys to Innervisions is a 15-session educational curriculum for adults and adolescents about change, specifically changing the beliefs and behaviors that lead to drug abuse and dependency.

Roselle Family Success Center
The mission of the Roselle Family Success Center is to strengthen families and neighborhoods by developing networks of family services that result in preventing substance abuse, child abuse and neglect. We strive to build connections within and between families and the community. This community-based, family-focused center provides an array of essential services, including prevention, family support and early intervention.

STOP (Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking)
This federally-funded project implements strategies to reduce underage drinking by changing local attitudes, norms and laws.  These strategies include alcohol outlet compliance checks, town hall meetings, a high school PSA contest, and much more.

Class Action
Class Action draws upon the social influence theory of behavior change, using interactive, peer-led sessions to explore the real-world legal and social consequences of substance abuse. The curriculum consists of 8-10 group sessions in which students divide into teams to research, prepare, and present mock civil cases involving hypothetical persons harmed as a result of underage drinking.

Back to Basics
This program is designed to be used for first-time offenders and their parents or guardians.  The program runs for between one and two hours and can be held at any location throughout the county.  The program will address the substance and/or alcohol abuse topic related to the prescribing offense.

Strengthening Families Program
The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a family skills training program designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems in children 3-16 years old.

Stoned Cold: Intoxicated Driving Prevention
The Stone Cold Program addresses the dangers of underage drinking especially intoxicated driving.  The program utilizes a video created by the Hackensack Regional Medical Center which reenacts a true but tragic story of three teens involved in a fatal car crash which involved underage drinking.  Activities and discussions  are integrated into the program to encourage discussion and provide tool for participants to use to avoid the same tragedy.

 Possibility Parenting
Possibility Parenting is the 6-session parenting component of Keys to Innervisions.  Keys to Innervisions is an educational curriculum for adults and adolescents about change, specifically changing the beliefs and behaviors that lead to drug abuse and dependency.

Coping with Work and Family Stress – Coping With Work and Family Stress is a workplace preventive intervention designed to teach employees 18 years and older how to deal with stressors at work and at home. The model is derived from Pearlin and Schooler’s hierarchy of coping mechanisms as well as Bandura’s social learning theory.

Intoxicated Driver Resource Center ( 16-week Program )
This program is mandatory for anyone convicted of driving under the influence in New Jersey. Programs topics include consequences of drinking and driving, laws relating to driving while intoxicated, the nature of addictions, and how self-help groups assist in recovery.

Professional Training
Training is available to individuals or groups who provide medical, social, criminal justice, religious, or other human services.

Union County Coalition for the Prevention of Substance Abuse
Through the ability to secure additional funding, The Coalition has been able to continue beyond its ten years of Drug Free Communities funding. The Coalition focuses on reducing substance abuse among youth in Union County by developing a viable, pro-active Coalition. The overriding accomplishment of the Coalition is the establishment of an institutionalized infrastructure in Union County. The coalition has become woven into the fibers of the comprehensive prevention planning that takes place at the county and state level.

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