Middle School

Your Goals, Dreams, and Values

Sample Lessons

• Your dreams and your goals
• Your values
• What's important to you? (values activities)
• Making your dreams come true
• What are your life goals?

Emotional Intelligence

Sample Lessons

• Understanding your feelings
• Cues and feelings
• Caring (activity)
• Using cues
• Thoughts, feelings, and actions

Problem Solving

Sample Lessons

• The basic problem solving model
• Using cues to warm yourself about trouble
• What could happen?
• What are your choices?
• How your decisions affect other people
• Doing the right thing
• Making a wise choice
• Problem solving and thought stopping
• Problem recognition
• Thought stopping (avoiding impulse thinking)
• Problem recognition: using cues about trouble
• Problem recognition activities

Risk Factors

Sample Lessons

• Handling risks - where do you stand?
• Problems and solutions
• Life can be painful
• Avoidance skills and planning
• Handling peer pressure
• Refusal and resistance skills
• Gangs
• Alcohol and other drugs
• Handling risks - using your problem solving skills
• Thought stopping (avoiding impulse thinking)
• Risks and consequences(weighing pros and cons)
• When you need help, who will support you? (planning, means-ends thinking)
• Where can I go? What can I do? (planning, means-ends thinking)

Preventive Factors

Sample Lessons

• True friendship
• How can we help?
• Belonging and acceptance
• Role models
• My "dream team"
• Community assets, family, and friends
• Personal assets and strengths
• You have options

Bullying (optional)

Resources coming soon.