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The Phoenix Curriculum provides gang prevention and gang intervention resources in two ways:

1. The Gang Prevention Curriculum is designed for elementary, middle school and high school students. The Gang Prevention Curriculum includes detailed lesson plans and classroom support materials, and is linked to state core competency standards. It is based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles and has been successful in gang prevention programs across the country, inoculating youth against gang violence and risk factors.
2. The Gang Intervention Curriculum, designed for higher risk students in elementary, middle, and high schools, targets the highest risk factors for gang involvement. It provides multiple strategies to combat gang violence and promote gang resistance. The Gang Intervention Curriculum includes 100-150 hours of materials at each level, and addresses areas such as gang activity, bullying, peer pressure, substance abuse, anger, aggression, dealing with gang members, and gang violence. These anti-gang strategies for gang intervention, gang prevention, and gang resistance are available in gender-specific versions, with selected gang program materials in Spanish. Several videos and accompanying workbooks supplement the gang curriculum. Counselors' gang program resources include tools for overcoming resistance and guiding the process of individual change.

Critical Program Objectives

The Gang Prevention Curriculum and Gang Intervention Curriculum guide the student to develop self-efficacy in identifying and addressing their highest risk factors for substance abuse, violence, bullying, gang involvement, and other crime. Students will develop the ability to recognize high risk people, places, things, and situations, and have confidence that they can handle these risk factors. Students are taught new skills for gang resistance, avoiding gang violence, dealing with gang members, and more.

Self-efficacy is the key to successful gang intervention and gang prevention. Students will demonstrate competence in skills such as problem solving, problem avoidance, gang resistance, coping effectively with their highest risk factors, dealing with gang members, asking for help from safe and supportive people, feelings management (self-monitoring and emotional intelligence), and impulse control.

The success of anti-gang strategies for gang intervention or gang prevention also depends on the development of a firm safety net. Students are encouraged to identify and enhance critical protective factors or assets which can help them achieve happy and productive lives. This process includes aspects of character education (the development of pro-social values and behaviors, the selection of pro-social friends, empathy for others, the development of positive goals, involvement with a personal support system, gang resistance, and participation in positive community organizations and activities). As schools are a critical protective factor, the curriculum provides support for violence prevention, anti-bullying programs, peer pressure awareness, and embracing diversity.

Materials

The Phoenix Curriculum 50-hour gang prevention program is a standardized curriculum consisting of nearly four hundred pages of anti-gang strategies targeted at different age groups. A shorter 25-hour program is also available. Supplemental gang intervention curriculums can be used in-school or in intensive after-school-based gang programs.

The Spanish-language curriculum includes Curriculo Phoenix, Recursos de los Programas de Desviación (Spanish-language community program), and Programa de Intervención de Pandillas (Spanish-language gang intervention resources).

Logic Model: Results-based Programming

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The Phoenix Curriculum gang intervention, gang prevention, and gang resistance programs provide the tools and guidance for you to monitor immediate and intermediate outcomes, and the development of self-efficacy. Click here (PDF format) for a detailed logic model of this program, and please contact us for more information.

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