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Prevention
Services
DARE To Be You – Rappahannock Area is an award winning family based program that empowers youth, families, and communities. Through a series of interactive workshops, families will learn about communication, decision making, problem-solving and fostering the skills for future academic success. More Information
Healthy Families - Rappahannock Area is an
interagency program which provides support to at-risk first-time parents with free home visitations, playgroups, and referrals to other community resources. Their goal is to reduce child maltreatment and increase school readiness.
RACSB serves as the fiscal agent.
Program
for Teen Parents is a program of school and home-based
education and support for pregnant and parenting teenagers in Spotsylvania County. It
encourages a healthy pregnancy and positive relationship
between parent and child. More
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Project
LINK is an interagency project aimed at helping pregnant and parenting
women with risk factors for substance abuse or personal histories
of chemical dependency. Its mission is to link consumers
to resources that foster their physical, emotional, spiritual,
and family well-being. Project LINK uses a supportive, nonpunitive
approach to preventing and treating perinatal substance abuse. More Information
Rappahannock Area Kids on the Block teaches children and teens with humor, candor, and sensitivity about important issues using the unique medium of puppetry. RAKOB creates awareness and understanding in out community for people with differences and provides educational information on important health and safety concerns such as bullying, problem solving, and childhood obesity. RACSB serves
as the fiscal agent. More
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Second Step is a classroom-based skills training program for children from Preschool through 8th Grade that teaches social and emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive or aggressive behavior while increasing social competence and building skills for academic success. Second Step teaches children to identify and understand their own and others’ emotions, to reduce their impulsiveness, to choose positive goals, to begin managing their emotional reactions, and to improve their decision making process even when upset. This program is free and available to interested after-school programs, school classrooms, preschool programs, and day cares. More Information
Too Good for Drugs is a school-based substance abuse prevention program for youth from Preschool through 8th Grade that teaches these skills: decision making, goal setting, bonding with others, identifying and managing emotions and communicating effectively. Too Good for Drugs is designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among students. This program is free and available to interested after-school programs, school classrooms, preschool programs, summer camps, and day cares.
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