School Programs (see also: Southwest WI Youth Council)

  1. After school programs

    2. Tutoring program for middle school youth to improve academic & social competence to reduce risk factors that often lead to alcohol, tobacoo and other drug usage. After School programs are in Iowa Grant, Lancaster, and Cuba City Schools.

  2. Class Action

    3. Class Action is an 8- to 10-session curriculum that looks at the real-world social and legal consequences involving teens in grades 9 through 12 and alcohol. Students are divided into six legal teams to prepare and present hypothetical civil cases in which someone has been harmed as a result of underage drinking. Using a casebook along with audiotaped affidavits and depositions, teens build legal cases that they will present to a jury of their peers. The six case topics include:

    • Drinking and Driving
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
    • Drinking and Violence
    • Date Rape
    • Drinking and Vandalism
    • School Alcohol Policies

    The Class Action curriculum is offered in Cuba City, Cassville, Southwestern, and Benton High Schools.



  3. All Stars

    4. All Stars is a school- or community-based program designed to delay the onset of and prevent high-risk behaviors in middle school adolescents 11 to 14 years of age through the development of positive personal characteristics in young adolescents. It especially targets drug use, violence, and premature sexual activity. It is designed to help young people develop qualities that will motivate them to avoid drug use and high-risk behaviors; reduce the use of gateway drugs—alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants; help young people develop meaningful relationships with each other and institutions that serve them; and motivate youth to develop positive characters and lifestyles.
    Schools that have this program are Riverridge and Cuba City Middle Schools.

  4. TATU

    5. The purpose of T.A.T.U. is to train teens to use their commitment and skills as tobacco-free teens with younger children so that the younger children will make healthy choices to stay tobacco-free and will be advocates for tobacco-control in their communities. This is a teen drug-prevention program. The schools with TATU are: Lancaster Middle School, Platteville HS, Cuba Ctiy MS, Iowa Grant MS, Riverridge middle school, Cassville High School, Potosi High School and Riverdale Middle and High Schools.

  5. NOT

    6. The American Lung Association's Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) is a premier smoking cessation/reduction program for high school youth. The authors and collaborators have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of the materials, information, and techniques in the program. They have also done extensive research on program results, which have been impressive. Locally, we have offered it several times, always having youth report they have reduced their use and/or quit all together. The schools that have used this program are Lancaster and Platteville Alternative Schools.

  6. UW-Platteville Partnership
    • Wellness Days

      • We have an informational booth with games and give aways.

    • Spring Break Party Challenge

      • Student organizations and campus housing have a contest to see who can have the best non-alcohol party.

    • Alcohol Awareness

      • We work together on marketing campaigns, and various and raising awareness.

    • ATODA Coalition Partnership

      • There is an ATODA coalition on campus and we are an active member and they are the ones who do the above activities.

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