Grade Level Options
Lions Quest provides curricula, products, training, and services to support adults in helping young people deal with the complex issues they face at each stage of their development.
Our programs are broken down by the following three age groups:
Grades K-5: Skills for Growing
» More details about this program are available in the
Skills for Growing Brochure (pdf)
» Download the SAMHSA Brochure
Lions Quest Skills for Growing is a comprehensive K-5 program focusing on life skills, service-learning, and character education. Skills for Growing incorporates positive prevention strategies and an implementation process for linking the home, school, and community in teaching essential life and citizenship skills.
The program capitalizes on the enormous potential of children and directs their creative energies into becoming capable and healthy young people with a sense of direction, solid skills, and a strong commitment to their families, schools, and communities.
Lions Quest’s commitment to high-quality preparation is based on the proven premise that programs for youth are most successful when comprehensive, program-specific training is provided. Workshop attendance is required for all adults who wish to use Lions Quest K-12 core curricula.
Grades 6-8: Skills for Adolescence
» More details about this program are available in the
Skills for Adolescence Brochure (pdf)
Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence is a comprehensive life skills and drug prevention curriculum for grades 6-8 that emphasizes character development, communication, decision making, and service-learning. Skills for Adolescence is also a strong prevention tool–guiding young people toward healthy choices and a drug- and violence-free lifestyle.
The program’s flexible approach incorporates the most current research, educational strategies, and implementation processes for linking the home, school, and community in teaching essential life and citizenship skills.
Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence targets character development, alcohol and drug prevention, service-learning, academic achievement, violence prevention, and much more. The new curriculum is based on highly targeted research of students in grades 6-8. It includes a completely new drug unit; updated information, research, and resources; more interactive, student-focused lessons; new sessions on anger, conflict, and stress management; new cross-curricular activities to encourage team-teaching; and more. This extensive curriculum has been expanded to help students manage conflict and anger and to help teachers and administrators deal with the critical issue of bullying.
Grades 9-12: Skills for Action
» More details about this program are available in the
Skills for Action Brochure (pdf)
Lions Quest Skills for Action is an innovative and flexible curriculum for grades 9-12 that moves beyond the classroom to build essential life and citizenship skills through community and school-based service-learning experiences.
Created to help young people become personally and socially responsible citizens, Lions Quest Skills for Action offers students the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills to make positive contributions at home, at school, in the community, and in the workplace. Students learn to communicate effectively, analyze and solve problems, set and achieve goals, work successfully as part of a team, and resolve conflicts peacefully. Students also develop the means to resist negative peer pressure, make healthy choices, and to understand and appreciate diversity in the classroom, school, and broader community. Skills for Action stimulates students’ intellectual curiosity and academic growth, guiding them towards active citizenship and positive social action.
The essential first step in launching Lions Quest Skills for Action is to attend an intensive introductory workshop for teachers, administrators, and community members. Conducted by Lions Quest-certified professional trainers, the workshop provides your implementation team with a complete orientation on the curriculum, teaching tips, and practice in classroom implementation.
Lions Quest Exploring the Issues: Teens–Alcohol and Other Drugs is a 15-session mini- curriculum designed to help students gain the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to be healthy and drug-free individuals. Students research the issues and carry out service projects in their schools and communities, sharing with others what they have learned.