8/8/08 - LifeSkills Training Helps Reduce AL Teen Smoking Rates
Making significant progress in the battle against smoking, Alabama schools implemented LifeSkills Training curriculum. |
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6/5/08 - Independent Study Proves Long-Term Effectiveness of LST
Study indicates that substance use outcomes 5 1/2 years past baseline for partnership-based, family-school preventive interventions |
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3/17/08 - LifeSkills offers alternatives to drugs and violence
LIfeSkills Training particpants reflect on the program's positive influence. |
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1/16/08 - Developer of LST shares knowledge with the New York Times
Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin discussed the growing trend of heroin use among youth. |
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11/30/07 - Community Implementing LST to Hold Underage Drinking Forum
The movement to reduce underage drinking starts with upcoming community event. |
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11/29/07 - Top-Rated Prevention Program Cuts Violent Behavior By Up to 50%
Study shows drug abuse prevention program is also effective in preventing violence. |
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11/14/07 - Georgia study uses LST as an Anti-Smoking Strategy
Study using LST focuses on training children and their parents/guardians in skills to prevent smoking. |
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9/27/07 - School District Wins National Award Using LifeSkills Training
Over the past six years, the number of teenagers who say they've used alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamine in Granite Falls has dropped sharply.
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8/21/07 - Program staff attend LifeSkills Training Elemenatry workshop
VOICE staff attend a LifeSkills Training Elementary School workshop in preparation for the upcoming school year. |
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8/21/07 - LifeSkills Training identified by UNICEF
UNICEF lists the LifeSkills Training program as an example program under Training, Teaching and Learning Materials for Drug Prevention. |
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5/31/07 - New Institute of Medicine Report Highlights Effectiveness of LST
A new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a division of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a blueprint for reducing cigarette smoking in the United States. |
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5/24/07 - Hemet Unified School District Pushes Tobacco Education
From Red Ribbon activities and senior tobacco-free pledges to Saturday cessation classes and Life Skills Training, Hemet Unified School District has spent the past 10 years bolstering its efforts to help students kick the habit or prevent them from starti |
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5/23/07 - National Health Promotion Associates Sponsors Three Prevention Seminars in April
In April 2007, National Health Promotion Associates (NHPA) sponsored a series of Prevention Seminars for prevention educators in Orlando, Tallahassee and New York City. |
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5/13/07 - New LST Workplace Program Unveiled at EASNA Conference
NHPA was invited to attend the EASNA Conference and present the details of its large-scale, randomized control study on adapting the LifeSkills Training program for use in the workplace. |
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5/1/07 - California Celebrates Students' Achievement in the LifeSkills Training Program
Fairfield Community Services in Fairfield, CA and the Shasta County Sheriff's Department recently recognized their students’ achievements in completing the LifeSkills Training program. |
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