Youth Prevention Education

Youth Prevention Education

Students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades at middle schools throughout DeKalb County take part in the Mendez Foundation’s Too Good for Drugs program. The program includes comprehensive, evidence-based interventions to prevent substance use. The interventions are designed to decrease the risk factors linked to substance abuse and develop a child’s ability to resist problem behaviors.

The Too Good for Drugs program also educates students about the developing adolescent brain and how substance use can affect it and long-term health. Topics include alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter medications, and street drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

For more information, please visit toogoodprograms.org or call 815.981.7409.