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AWARENESS is a recreational prevention mentoring program that “uses the power of cool” to change the culture of substance abuse among teenagers. In Awareness, teams of trained and supervised high school students model pro-social skills to 7th and 8th graders during recreational activities that serve as healthy alternatives to substance abuse, while building community.
Goal: To empower teens to “own” the negative consequences of the problem caused by underage drinking, especially binge drinking, and begin to solve it. To empower teens to change the teenage culture of alcohol and other substance abuse by making it less cool to get drunk and more cool to do other fun things.
Population Targeted: Multiples teams of at least twelve high school students and up to 35 middle school students who represent economically, ethnically, physically and socially diverse groups that include at-risk and achieving students per group.
Training: A Mental Health Trainer teaches the high school students how to actively listen non-judgmentally, build self confidence, interact, plan, lead and participate in activities with Middle School age student’s to promote substance free fun events. They also are provided alcohol awareness education which they later use to make alcohol awareness “commercials” with the younger students, as one of the fun activities. They are taught how to lead cooperative games and self-growth activities.
AWARENESS is a mentoring program focusing on building relationships that meet the developmental needs of youth. This serves as another protective factor against substance abuse. As mentors are trained to help others, they become more aware of their own strengths and resources as well as the unhealthy aspects of their personal and cultural relationship to alcohol.
The AWARENESS Program will be using 2 Mentors to 4 youth ratio so that we can maximize more one to one contact within the group.This group has an Administrator that is a High School Senior. There are two Coordinators per High School grade level. It is set up so that the underclassmen coordinators shadow and work within the group with the intent of aging up to the Senior Coordinating positions.
Check out our web site www.hvinet.com/awareness/ Please feel free to call me with any questions. Sincerely, Marie Shultis Adult Administrator 845-417-1483 Stephan Bielecki Teen Administrator CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SENIORS THAT HAVE GRADUATED AND ARE ALL ATTENDING COLLEGE: Senior Coordinators Mentors GJ Haaland Becky Shultis Sarah Lovetre Megan VanGorden Program Coordinators Stephan Bielecki
Senior Coordinators: Junior Mentor Junior Coordinators: Kayleigh Neu Ryan Hastie Freshman Mentor Deanndra Shultis Hudson Bielecki
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