S.P.I.R.I.T.

Preferred Family Healthcare is one of four Prevention Resource Centers in the state of Missouri to conduct a comprehensive substance abuse and violence prevention program known as S.P.I.R.I.T. (School-based Prevention, Intervention, and Resources Initiative). PFH Prevention Specialists visit classrooms to provide a wide range of evidence-based substance use and violence prevention curricula for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade at 8 different Missouri School Districts. These school districts include Knox County, Scotland County, South Shelby, Macon, Kirksville, La Plata, and North Andrew. Curriculum programs that are used include PeaceBuilders, Too Good for Drugs, SPORT 2 Prevention + Wellness, and Mentoring. The S.P.I.R.I.T. Program is funded by the Department of Mental Health: Division of Behavioral Health and is evaluated yearly by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health.

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PeaceBuilders

PeaceBuilders is a science-based, research-validated violence prevention curriculum and professional development program for grades pre-K to 12. Its essence is a common language - six principles, taught, modeled and practiced. These same principles set behavioral expectations, reduce aggression, and transform the climate and culture of any environment to one which is cooperative, productive, and academically successful.

Too Good for Drugs Program

Too Good is a comprehensive family of evidence-based substance use and violence prevention interventions designed to mitigate the risk factors linked to problem behaviors and build protection within the child to resist problem behaviors.

Too Good develops a framework of social and emotional skills through the development of goal-setting, decision-making, emotion management, and effective communication skills in addition to peer-pressure refusal, pro-social bonding, and conflict resolution skills.

Too Good builds the basis for a safe, supportive, and respectful learning environment.

PreventionPlusWellness

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) is a small education business providing one-session and other brief evidence-based substance use prevention programs that promote protective wellness behaviors among children, adolescents, and young adults for prevention and health professionals and parents.

Rainbow Days

Rainbow Days Training equips individuals, organizations, schools and communities with the skills and tools they need to create positive change for the children, youth and families they serve. By training others in Rainbow Days’ own Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG®) Program, which teaches important SEL skills to children and youth, and by providing other innovative, practical learning opportunities through workshops, Rainbow Days Training supports youth-serving professionals to achieve significant results in their own communities across the nation and the globe. Rainbow Days Training includes two key services: