Program Topics  http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/crossroads/topics.htm

CROSSROADS can create a custom program for any audience. When you request a program, we will work with you to tailor our presentations to your group and any relevant concerns.  

Note to professors: Don’t cancel that class!  CROSSROADS can tailor a presentation to fit the needs of your classroom and syllabus.

CROSSROADS can present to your group, facilitate programs using “clicker” technology, and provide activities for your event.  We can also share information from the CROSSROADS High School program.

 

Some of the programs that we present most often to groups and organizations include:

• Ask CROSSROADS: A panel of peer educators and professional staff will answer your questions about alcohol, other drugs, and substance abuse.

• Bigger Than Your Habit: Tobacco & Sustainability: How does tobacco affect the world economy and the environment?  Should there be a “fair trade” cigarette?  This program examines tobacco marketing, farming, and the connection to sustainability. 

• Energy Drinks: Truth & Fiction: An exploration of energy drinks, including symptoms of overdose, mixing with alcohol, and a discussion of how energy drinks are marketed.

• I love 25!  Everything you need to know about UNCW’s tobacco policy, environmental tobacco smoke, and how to talk to smokers about the policy.

• Gender Encounter: This facilitated discussion enables men and women engage in constructive dialogue about gender and increase empathy and understanding of the other gender’s experience.

• Girl’s Night In: A multi-media exploration of stress, relationships, and alcohol use by women.

• Guy’s Night In: A multi-media exploration of sex, sports, stress, and alcohol use by men.

• Pot & Pizza: An honest discussion of what is known (and unknown) about marijuana.  This program can include Marijuana Jeopardy.

• R U Ready to Quit?  A tobacco cessation program for UNCW students which can be tailored for students who are ready to quit, trying to quit, or just thinking about it.  Free Quit Kits provided!

• Vicodin, Adderall, and Xanax, oh my!  An honest discussion of the trends, reasons for using, and risks of using prescription drugs.

CROSSROADS also uses Turning Point technology to present interactive programs using an audience response system (or “clickers”).  These programs can be combined and/or tailored for the needs of your group.

 

• Group Norms: What does your group think about alcohol and other drugs?  How do one member’s decisions impact the group?  Find out and talk about it!

• How risky is…? A facilitated discussion of common scenarios and protective strategies that can reduce your risk of harm related to substance use.  What risks are you willing to take?  How and when do you want your friends to intervene?

• The Clicker Challenge!  A high-energy gameshow exploring myths and facts of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, protective strategies, campus norms, and resources.

Some of the activities that we can bring to your group, organization, or event include:

• Beer Goggle Games: This interactive program can include a variety of activities with the “Beer Goggles”, which simulate impairment.  The activities will depend on your goals and space.

• Drinking Games: Interactive activities designed to help students learn about alcohol and/or other drugs, including the Prize Wheel, Twister, Match Game, and Roll the Dice.

• DUI Golf Cart: This program is done in partnership with Campus Police and requires a large, flat, open outdoor area.  We will also bring additional activities for students who are waiting to drive the Golf Cart.

• The Tiki Bar: Our newest program features interactive stations for students to pour and measure “drinks”, compare the effects of different mixers, and identify helpful and harmful strategies.  Students receive instant feedback about their choices.

• Other Passive Education can include a variety of information appropriate for your event, including Summer or Spring Break Safety, Holiday-specific (e.g. Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day), or substance-specific information (energy drinks, quitting tobacco, etc), or tailored for your audience (Safe Party Hosting, Understanding Americans & Alcohol, etc)

 

The CROSSROADS High School Drug Prevention Program provides high schools with a highly interactive, evidence-based approach to preventing and delaying drug use among adolescents. Using our interactive peer educator-led CROSSROADS curriculum and out-of-class activities, students are guided through a fun and educational process of discovery focused on skills and key mediating variables that have been proven to prevent or delay substance abuse. Among the topics addressed in CROSSROADS High School are:

• Decision Making
• Refusal Skills
• Social Norms (i.e. helping students understand that most students don't use and actually look at substance use negatively)
• Physical and Psychological Effects of Substance Use, including differences between the adult and adolescent brain
• Personal susceptibility (helping students recognize that everyone is equally susceptible to the negative consequences associated with substance use)
• Healthy alternatives to drugs (i.e. “natural highs”)
• Stress and coping
• Goal-setting and lifestyle incongruence

 

If you would like to learn more about CROSSROADS High School, our unique two-step peer-education model, the mediators and topics we address or any aspect of our program, let us know!  We’d love to talk with your class or organization.  You can find more information at www.crossroadsprevention.com.