Maxine Womble, director of the Midwest Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, discusses the importance of using many different communitywide prevention programs to help children deal with ATOD issues. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #6, Preparing Students for Drug-Free Lifestyles (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1992).
"Prevention should look at the whole child. For a child to grow up healthy and in a drug free environment will require positive role models and alternative activities that encourage academic, personal and social success. Prevention is a proactive, ongoing process rooted in real life activities and nurtured by community support to help our children grow up drug free."
Date posted: 1996