Prevention Services

CHAD is a prevention provider and delivers a wide range of services including evidence-based education programs, individual counseling, and school-based services.

Strength in Choices
grades 4 & grade 6

The Strength in Choices program includes two 40-minute, age-appropriate lesson that covers the following topics:

  • Wellness and Healthy Habits: Understanding the importance of caring for their bodies and minds.

  • Refusal Skills: Practicing simple strategies to resist peer pressure and make safe choices.

  • Positive Activities and Engagement: Identifying fun, healthy activities that promote well-being reducing the risk of substance use.

  • Substance Use Awareness: Learning basic, factual information about the risks of substance use in an age-appropriate manner.

At the end of the lesson, students will complete a personal pledge to reinforce their learning and commitment to making healthy choices.

Too Good For Drugs -
Maximizing Life
grade 3 & grade 5

Skills development is at the core of Too Good for Drugs / Maximizing Life, a universal K-12 prevention education program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use. The lessons introduce and develop skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, developing self-efficacy, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure and influence.

Too Good for Drugs / Maximizing Life teaches five essential character development skills to build self-efficacy, promote healthy development, and academic success:

  • Setting Reachable Goals

  • Making Responsible Decisions

  • Bonding with Pro-Social Others

  • Identifying and Managing Emotions

  • Communicating Effectively

Teen Intervene

The Teen Intervene program educates, supports and guides teens and parents when the risk of drug or alcohol addiction is present.

Outpatient Counseling

Outpatient Counseling offers individualized treatment based on the needs derived from the evaluation process. Often individual counseling will be used as an adjunct to the group process. In cases where the appropriate group is not available, individual counseling sessions will be recommended. The use of individual counseling is the primary treatment mode for young children and significant others.

Request for Services

CHAD is a prevention provider and delivers a wide range of services including evidence-based education programs, individual counseling, and school-based services.