Maxine Womble, director of the Midwest Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, discusses the need for a wide range of prevention activities and the importance of good role models in the lives of children. 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 would require a 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."
This Critical Issue was researched and written by Emanuel Hurwitz, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago; Julius Menacker, Ed.D, Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Ward Weldon, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. Additional comments were provided by Carol Sullivan, a Minneapolis-based violence prevention consultant.
Date posted: 1996