A recent cost-benefit analysis found a $37.52 benefit for every dollar spent on LST. Check out more of these cost-benefit studies to see why prevention is well worth the investment, and learn how LST can produce considerable cost savings.

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Sadie O'Reilly, the coordinator of Have Your Tomorrows (HURT), spent a considerable amount of time researching programs that could best teach students about the importance of awareness, communication, peer and media pressure, and drug resistance skills. The Botvin LifeSkills Training program matched all of the areas that the organization felt needed to be addressed for young people in today's environment. HURT is planning to deliver this program over the next three years to more than 400 young people.

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Participants in Belfast, Ireland, learned teaching techniques during a LifeSkills Training Middle School Workshop. The workshop provided in-depth analysis of the curriculum as well as hands-on practice in teaching the program.

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Drug use among Carter County's youth has decreased, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). The Carter County Drug Free Coalition (facilitated by the Pathways Regional Prevention Center) has worked for the past six years to reduce drug and alcohol use among Carter County's youth. Individual strategies have included a research-based substance abuse prevention curriculum for third through ninth graders (Botvin LifeSkills Training).

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Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) has a channel on YouTube! Send in your videos of LST in action and we'll upload it to our channel and feature it in our next newsletter. These videos can be short films, role plays, talks, discussions, presentations or other such activities. We'll upload  the  selected videos on the Botvin LST channel on YouTube.

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