The Core Program
The Phoenix Curriculum is a broad prevention and early intervention curriculum. It is important to understand the difference between intervention and prevention when developing a program. Many of these programs are tailored to school-age prevention and early intervention. For younger audiences, we often use the resources described on this page in gang intervention programs, including as a core program for MI/MET and CBT Gang intervention programs. This is the core program element of our comprehensive curriculum, with programming material tailored to elementary school, 6th grade, middle school, high school, and alternative schools.
The Phoenix Curriculum provides prevention and more intense intervention components geared to young audiences.
- Core Gang Prevention Program
- Levels of Programming
- What does a core program look like?
- Intervention Program
Core Gang Prevention Program
The core gang prevention curriculum is designed for elementary, middle school and high school students (materials available for Grades 4-10). Detailed lesson plans and classroom support materials are included, and the gang prevention curriculum is linked to state core competency standards.
What Do You Think?
The What Do You Think? element is usally sold with the core program.
The goal is providing youth with effective life and social skills, important to self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and problem-solving, fosters resilience to ATOD use/abuse, violence, and other antisocial behaviors.
Levels of Programming
To provide a pertinent program, programming is focused on different grade levels.
Elementary School
Materials available for Grades 4-5. Detailed lesson plans and classroom support materials are included, and the curriculum is linked to state core competency standards.
Grade 6
Resources specifically designed for sixth graders are designed to apply to the unique circumstances of 6th grade students. A stepping stone between the Elementary School and Middle School programs, the program introduces problems and activities that sixth graders should find easily recognizable.
Middle School School
For grades 7 and 8.
High School
An age-relevant prevention/intervention program. Intervention materials tend to be more intensive in this age group. Scenarios are more mature.
What does a core program look like?
Broadly speaking, we provide 50-hour and 25-hour core Phoenix Curriculum programs.
50-Hour Program
The Phoenix Curriculum consists of a core program of five elements with age-appropriate activities:
- What's Important To You? — motivational enhancement materials
- Understanding Your Feelings — emotional intelligence
- Problem Solving — addressing high-risk people, places, things, situations, thoughts, and feelings
- Risk Factors — gangs, alcohol, drugs, peer pressure
- Protective Factors
25-Hour Program
A shorter program emphasizing risk factors and protective factors is suitable for many facilities. Students who take this program are less at-risk than those above. This may be suitable for a detention or probation program, especially when hours might be limited.
Intervention Program
See our intervention resources.