Evidence-Based Programs

Join Together Northern Nevada (JTNN) partners with schools, families, and community organizations to provide evidence-based prevention programs that empower youth to make healthy choices and build resilience. Each program is designed to prevent substance misuse, strengthen social-emotional skills, and support positive development across all age groups, helping create a stronger, healthier, and drug-free community.

YOUTH PROGRAMS

Grades 5–12 | 4 Sessions | 45 Mins Each | 1 Per Week

CATCH My Breath is an evidence-based vaping prevention curriculum for students in 5 – 8th grade, designed to educate youth about the risks of e-cigarettes and nicotine use. It helps students build skills to resist peer pressure, understand how vaping impacts their health, and empower them to make informed, healthy decisions. It has been shown to reduce vaping initiation, increase knowledge of vaping harms, and shift perceptions toward a vape-free lifestyle.

Grades K–12 | 10 Sessions | 50 Mins Each | 1 Per Week

Skills development is the core of Too Good for Drugs, a universal K-12 prevention education program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) 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

Grades K–12 | 10-12 sessions | 30-60 Mins Each | 1 Per Week

The Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG) Program is a unique, multi-cultural, evidence-based preventive intervention for selective and indicated populations. The program is designed for children and youth, ages 4-17, whose high-risk situations, attitudes and behaviors place them at elevated risk for future behavioral and health problems including substance abuse, delinquency and violence.

Groups are taught a set of essential life skills to help them learn how to:

  • Cope with difficult family situations
  • Resist negative peer pressure
  • Respect others
  • Set and achieve goals
  • Make healthy choices
  • Refuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

The CBSG Program is curriculum-based and has been recognized by the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   Empirical studies show that the CBSG Program reduces anti-social attitudes and rebellious behavior, increases anti-drug-use attitudes and intentions, reduces early substance use/experimentation and increases coping and social skills.

High School | 12 sessions | 40 Min Each | 1-2 Per Week

Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is a drug prevention program for high school youth who are at risk for drug use and violence-related behavior.

Sessions provide instruction in:

  • Motivation activities to not use drugs
  • Skills in self-control, communication, and resource acquisition
  • Decision-making strategies.

The program is delivered universally and has been used in both traditional and alternative, high-risk high schools.

Alternative Setting Programs are designed to reach students in nontraditional or alternative education environments through engaging, small-group sessions that promote healthy decision making, leadership, and connection. These programs educate and empower youth to make positive choices while developing advocacy and communication skills.

  • Youth 2 Youth: Empowers students to become peer leaders and prevention advocates through teamwork, communication, and outreach projects.
  • Curriculum-Based Support Groups (CBSGs): Small-group sessions that teach coping skills, promote healthy choices, and prevent substance use.

Implementation Settings: These programs can be delivered in youth groups, lunch bunches, or after-school sessions.

PARENT & FAMILY PROGRAMS

Each presentation is a single session and is scheduled as requested by schools

Super Parents Supervise is a parent-focused education program designed to support families in promoting healthy and safe lifestyles for their children. It includes two presentation options:

  • Drug Trends: Helps parents understand how the teenage brain works, recognize signs of substance misuse, learning safe medication storage and disposal, and gain effective strategies to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
  • Media Safety: Guides parents through current social media trends and app disguises, explores the connection between social media and mental health, and offers practical steps for setting healthy digital boundaries.

5 Sessions | 2-2.5 Hours Each | In-Person or Virtual

Guiding Good Choices is an interactive curriculum aimed at parents and caregivers, focusing on improving family dynamics and reducing adolescent problem behaviors. Ages 9-14.

The sessions cover the following key topics:

  • Promoting Health and Wellbeing
  • Setting Clear Guidelines
  • Managing Conflict
  • Helping Children Avoid Trouble
  • Strengthening Family Bonds