Addictions Care Center of Albany :: Grow Girl! © and Boys Only! ©

Grow Girl! © and Boys Only! ©

In middle school, when peer pressure to engage in underage drinking and risky behaviors increases, students receive the “Grow Girl!”© and “Boys Only!”© gender specific curricula to support the information learned in elementary school.

GROW GIRL! ©
This self-esteem building program helps encourage, empower and enable 10, 11 and 12 year old girls to become resilient! Grow Girl! © provides interactive lessons, guest speakers, incentives, positive messages, health information, and support to build resilient pre-teen girls. The positive message and lessons target the following risky behaviors:

Alcohol and Substance Use and Abuse
Premature sexual activity
Eating disorders
Negative self-image and domestic violence

Your Grow Girl! © will experience the following activities:

Eight 45 minute classroom or after-school lessons, using whole language techniques (reading, comprehension, journal writing.)
Guest speakers who are successful role models in the fields of law, entertainment, business, education, and sports.
Incentives in the form of posters, books, and diaries.

BOYS ONLY ! ©
This literacy-based self-esteem building prevention education program that encourages and enables 5th – 7th grade boys to protect themselves from engaging in the following risky behaviors:

Alcohol and substance use and abuse
Premature sexual activity
A negative self-image
Violence and/or conflicts with peers and in relationships with girls

Eight 45 minute classroom or after-school lessons
The use of whole language techniques such as reading, comprehensive discussion, and journal writing
Guest speakers who are successful and realistic role models from the Capital District community
Incentive items such as t-shirts, posters, pencils, books and stickers

For more information about the Community Education Program, please contact:
Community Education
90 McCarty Avenue
Albany, NY 12202
Tel:518-465-5829 Fax: 518-449-4876
ce@theacca.net