The Maricopa County Tobacco Use Prevention Program endorses many prevention curricula, which can be used in the classroom and/or in and after-school setting. Each curriculum provides useful and scientific information about prevention and is targeted toward the 4th-8th grades.

A school or community based program designed to delay and prevent high-risk behaviors by fostering the development of positive personal characteristics.

Increased awareness of the social consequences of tobacco use, including health costs, diseases and tobacco restrictions. Understanding the impact of social influence on tobacco use including peer pressure, advertising techniques and tobacco laws. Demonstration of a peer empowerment approach to delay and prevent the onset of tobacco use among adolescents and pre-adolescents. Awareness of the basic physiological effects of tobacco use.

This program is designed to teach youth empowering skills to resist their own impulses and peer pressure to use tobacco. Teachers will be able to integrate tobacco awareness into the core curriculum while maintaining focus on core subjects i.e. Language arts, English, Health, and Science.

The program is a comprehensive health, substance abuse, and violence prevention curriculum emphasizing the developmental assets, protective factors, responsibility, reasoned decision-making, and promotes a strong self-image.

A researched-based, mixed-media prevention program focused on the gateway drugs of alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana. The program is designed to promote healthy norms, increase protective factors, and reduce risk factors correlated with drug use. Lessons feature skills on how to be assertive, use self-control, stay out of trouble, make friends, make good decisions, and communicate those decisions to others.

The curriculum aims to increase student ability to resist peer pressure to use tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana; increase student recognition of the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana; help students identify and choose positive alternatives to substance abuse; decrease students actual use of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana; help parents to become effective drug educators; and increase parent-child communication about substance abuse.

The Life Skills Training program is designed to address a wide range of risk and protective factors by teaching general personal and social skills in combination with drug resistance skills and normative education.

A comprehensive life skills and drug prevention curriculum that emphasizes character development, communication, decision-making skills, and service learning. It is also a strong prevention tool guiding youth toward healthy choices and drug and violence-free lifestyle.

This program is designed to prevent initiation of drug use and the transition to regular use. It focuses on the substances that adolescents use most commonly: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants. Students will also learn how to develop reasons not to use drugs, identify pressure to use, learn how to say no to external and internal pressure, and recognize the benefits of resistance.

Project TNT is designed to counteract different causes of tobacco use simultaneously because behavior is determined by multiple causes. It focuses on tobacco addiction and disease, the consequence of using tobacco, and the prevalence of tobacco use among peers.

The program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention aiming to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and increase their level of social competence. Additionally, it reinforces empathy, impulse control, problem solving, and anger management.

The program aims to reduce intentions to use cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana; reduce intentions to engage in aggressive behavior; improve decision-making, goal setting, and peer resistance skills; and increase friendships with peers less likely to use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

The program is a multi-component program designed to help parents, teachers, and the community prevent children from entering the drug culture. The program targets risk and protective factors in multiple domains using several components.

The program teaches youth how to live drug-free lives confidently, drawing on their strengths and the strengths of their families and communities. The strategies prepare kids to act decisively and comfortably in a difficult situation. Students learn how to recognize risk, value their perceptions and feelings, and make choices that support their values.

The purpose of PATHS is to enhance social and emotional competence and understanding in children, as well as to develop a caring, pro-social context that facilitates educational processes in the classroom.

The Positive Action curriculum is scoped and sequenced for a comprehensive and systematic approach. Lessons and units build upon each other so that students gain more and more understanding of positive actions for their physical, intellectual, and emotional well-being.

An interactive, multi-disciplinary, inquiry-based program, which students discover the harmful effects of tobacco on their bodies through science-building academic skills. Students gain academic skills through inquiry-based, hands-on activities, and gain content knowledge and skills to become informed decision makers.

This is a culturally sensitive tobacco and alcohol use prevention program specifically adapted for migrant Hispanic youth and their families. The program is designed to improve parent-child communication skills as a way of improving and maintaining healthy young decision-making. The program contains a school and family curriculum delivered by bilingual/bicultural college students. The sessions include: listening skills, communication skills, health effects of smoking and peer pressure, health effects of alcohol and decision-making, social influences, refusal skills, media and adult influences.

The storytelling for empowerment project is a school-based secondary prevention designed for club and classroom settings project. The goal of this program is to decrease the incidence of ATOD use among high-risk youth by identifying and reducing factors in the individual, family, school, peer group, neighborhood/community, and society/media that place youth at high-risk for ATOD use.