Our Mission
Positive Prevention
Lions Quest K-12 programs are among the most highly acclaimed positive prevention programs in the world. Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence has received the CSAP/SAMHSA “MODEL” Program award, which identifies it as a best practice, evidence-based program that focuses on the elements that are critical to reducing adolescent drug use and promoting healthy behaviors. Lions Quest’s K-12 programs:
- Reduce risk factors that encourage drug use (alienation, aggression toward peers, friends who use drugs, etc.)
- Engage the home, school and community in developing assets for young people within a unified school-community initiative
- Promote the protective factors that discourage drug use (knowledge of harm of drugs, friends who don’t use drugs, resistance and goal-setting skills, etc.)
- Establish normative beliefs that drug use is not the norm among young people, and provides a clear “no use” message
- Address internal and external pressures to use drugs and teaches positive peer pressure strategies
- Teach resistance and other social skills, as well as emotional competencies
- Provide accurate, age-appropriate information about the short- and long-term impact of drug use on a young person’s health, friendships, interests and future goals
- Foster bonding with pro-social peers and caring adults in the home, school and community
- Encourage students to be healthy role models through service-learning projects in the school and community
- Provide evaluation instruments to measure the effectiveness of the program