Too Good for Drugs is a K-12 prevention education program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs use. The lessons introduce and develop skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, developing self-efficacy, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure and influence. 

Too Good for Drugs teaches five essential character development skills to build self-efficacy, promote healthy development, and academic success:

• Setting Reachable Goals
• Making Responsible Decisions
• Bonding with Pro-Social Others
• Identifying and Managing Emotions
• Communicating Effectively

CCHD has endeavored to create a continuum of substance abuse prevention programming addressing youth in the county to encourage positive decision-making and goal setting and to promote healthy lifestyle choices. 

• 467 7th grade students at Shelby Middle, Crest Middle and Burns Middle Schools completed the ten-session evidence-based program Too Good for Drugs which focuses on building positive communication and refusal skills as well as educating students on the signs and symptoms of addiction to substances.
• The Too Good for Drugs program was extended to 59 elementary school students at three sites in the county using the curriculum specifically designed for elementary students.

Working on collecting numbers and data for this year.