Question

How these two (2) objectives can be rewritten in a SMART APPROACH (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely).

1. By 2021, to determine the policies needed that are effective in preventing adolescent drug abuse and addiction.

1. To prevent the relapse of these 8th to 12th graders adolescents to drug abuse and addiction using programs by the NIDA and CDC.

Answer 1

1)• help students apprehend internal pressures, like anxiety and stress, and external pressures, like peer attitudes and advertising, that influence them to use alcohol, tobacco, and different drugs.
• develop personal, social, and refusal competencies to resist these pressures.
• educate that the usage of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is now not the norm among teenagers, even if students believe that “everyone is doing it”.
• grant developmentally-appropriate material and activities, such as facts about the short-term results and long-term consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
• use interactive teaching techniques, such as role plays, discussions, brainstorming, and cooperative learning.
• cover imperative prevention factors in at least ten periods a yr (with a minimum of three to five booster classes in two succeeding years).
•actively contain the family and the community; and
• include instructor training and support, and contain fabric that is effortless for instructors to implement and culturally relevant for students.
•A strong relationship with a guardian or caring adult who provides a steady nurturing environment.

2)The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
recommends that family-based prevention programs:

•Reach families of children at each stage of
development;
• Train parents in behavioral skills to reduce conduct problems in children, improve parent- child relationships, provide consistent discipline and rulemaking, and monitor children’s activities during adolescence;
•Include an educational component for parents with drug information for them and their children;
• Direct services to families with children in
kindergarten through 12th grade to enhance
protective factors; and
•Provide access to counseling services to families at risk.

CDA program to prevent drug abuse in adolescents:

•School-based drug prevention programs that are targeted, evidence-based, interactive, youth-focused and, engaging, have been shown to have success in decreasing drug abuse.
•Overall, successful school-based applications have been proven to have interventions delivered by way of trained professionals, constrained variety of students, excessive contact, and booster sessions for formative years most at-risk at the latter stage of the intervention.
•These promising and fine prevention programs also often combine neighborhood partnerships with intervention aspects that are recognized to work and use trained, knowledgeable and committed personnel.