Maxine Womble, director of the Midwest Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, stresses the need for using multiple strategies to teach all children about the dangers of drug use. 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).
"Research indicates that there's no single strategy that will work with all schools and all communities. There must be multiple strategies used to address the prevention problem. The message we must send to all children is that we must encourage them to be drug free. We should neither expect nor accept anything less."
This Critical Issue was researched and written by Richard Brooks, Director, Health Promotion Project, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Date posted: 1996