Our Curriculum

7th Grade

Our program starts with a five-day presentation about healthy decision-making, and how decisions about risky behaviors like drugs, drinking, tobacco, and sex, may affect people's lives in ways they might have never considered.

8th Grade
Middle School Boosters

Students receive presentations that apply healthy decision-making to issues they might see in their own lives.

Subjects include Peer Pressure, Teen Parenting Issues, or Refusal Skills.

High School
Usually in 9th or 10th grade

Students receive a five-day presentation about healthy decision-making, focused more specifically about dating and relationships.

After School: City STARS Leaders Club
Starts in 9th Grade

Students wanting to learn more about healthy decisions in a supportive environment may join City STARS Leaders Club and be a member until high school graduation.

Based on the nationally-recognized S.T.A.R.S. curriculum, students develop confidence and leadership skills by encouraging classmates to also make healthier decisions.

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Supported in part by project No. 90AE0266 from the Community-Based Abstinence
Education Grant, ACF, Dept. of Health and Human Services