Positive Futures

Positive Futures Curriculum

All members of the Palmetto Youth Center are required to participate a minimum of 30 minutes per week in our drug and alcohol education and prevention classes.

We have lectures and guest speakers, open discussions, videos and written materials to make the children knowledgeable of the dangers and effects of substance abuse.   Our program emphasizes the C.D. Mendez foundation’s prevention education programs.

“Too Good for Drugs”™, is a school-based (K-8) prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among students.  It has a separate, developmentally appropriate curriculum for each grade level.

Each curriculum builds on earlier grade levels, an instructional design which enables students to learn important skills sequentially and retain them year after year.