Please complete the following assignment and post your responses to the Message Board:

1. Think about your current prevention program or programs with which you've
worked in the past:

• List the activities in which youth are or were involved (or how they might have been involved).
• Assess the level of involvement of each activity, using the six-level model presented in the course.
• Jot down one or two ideas for how you might make each activity that you listed more meaningful.
• Identify one or two obstacles that might stand in the way and how you might circumvent them.

Click here for a worksheet that will help you with this process. Then select one activity you listed and discuss, on the Message Board, what you would do to make it more meaningful.

2. Imagine that you are working with the youth substance abuse prevention program described below:

Project KIDS is a small, well-established prevention program comprising two youth peer leaders and three adult staff. The project offers a variety of activities, including workshops and presentations for both youth and adults. Though the program has a good reputation in the community, you've heard from the peer leaders that most of the tasks assigned to them are pretty routine: The youth spend most of their time photocopying materials and putting together the workshop packets. And when they do get to lead workshops, they have to follow lesson plans developed completely by the adult staff. The youth want to be involved in more meaningful ways.

How can you help the youth achieve this? On the Message Board, please discuss some possible strategies.

After you have answered the questions, please review and respond to the comments made by your fellow participants. Do you agree with their responses? Disagree? Need clarification? Post your feedback to the Message Board. Then come back and visit regularly-others may have posed questions to you!

You have completed your work for today.
See you tomorrow!