Botvin LifeSkills Training
An e-learning prevention program for schools, families, and communities.
What is Botvin LifeSkills Training?
The Botvin LifeSkills Training Program is a highly interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and personal development for adolescents and young teens. It consists of three major components (drug resistance skills, personal self-management skills, and general social skills) that cover the critical domains found to promote drug use. Research has shown that students who develop skills in these three domains are far less likely to engage in a wide range of high-risk behaviors.
Developed by Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin, a leading prevention expert, Botvin LifeSkills Training is backed by over 30 scientific studies and is recognized as a Model or Exemplary program by an array of government agencies including the U.S. Department of Education and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
These classroom activities are designed to:
- Teach students the necessary skills to resist peer pressures to smoke, drink, and use drugs
- Help students to develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence
- Enable students to effectively cope with anxiety
- Increase their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse
- Enhance cognitive and behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of health risk behaviors
What is the effectiveness?
Botvin LifeSkills Training is based on more than 40 years of peer reviewed scientific research, and now holds the distinction of being the top evidence-based substance abuse prevention program in the country.
Botvin LifeSkills Stats
- Cuts tobacco use by 87%
- Cuts alcohol use by 60%
- Cuts marijuana use by 75%
- Cuts methamphetamine use by 68%
- Cuts polydrug use by 66%
- Reduces pack-a-day smoking by 25%
- Lowers risk for Rx & opioid misuse
- Reduces violence
- Reduces risky driving behavior
If you’re a parent, teacher, or community leader interested in gaining access to the Botvin LifeSkills Training materials, contact UYLC today for more information.