Chemical Dependency Education Series

Facilitator/Counselor: David A. Jones MA, CADC II

This is a 3-hour informational lecture regarding alcohol and drugs in the workplace and obstacles to employment resulting from alcohol and drugs. It is designed to be a culturally relevant learning experience for the population of youth seeking employment. The course will provide facts on alcohol and drugs in the workplace, including consequences of drug use on employment, employee-employer, and co-workers relationship. Participants will gain strategies for living in a world where tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs are plentiful. Every participant from non-user to active user will find something valuable to avoid becoming an impaired employee in the workplace as a result of substance abuse, or to seek out treatment options for learning how to stop using and abusing drugs or alcohol.

To reduce risk and harm associated with alcohol and other drugs on employment, health, and personal freedom.

To provide resiliency skills and models for operating in high-risk environments with little or no support for sobriety, or clean and sober living.

To provide education and information for reducing alcohol and drug use in the workplace and home.

To foster healthy alternatives to drug and alcohol use or abuse to maintain employment.

Foster knowledge and understanding of the effects of substance abuse on employment. Learning about denial of problem.

Foster awareness of negative consequences of associated with alcohol and drug use on individuals, family and community.

II. Drug and Alcohol Education 8-week Course Facilitator/Counselor: David A. Jones MA, CADC II

Course Description
8-week class which is designed to offer prevention and protective skills to students. The course will foster individual strength and understanding for resisting drugs and alcohol. This course will blend information about the history and experience of alcohol and drugs into a culturally relevant learning experience for this population. In addition the course will provide healthy lifestyle options, and strategies for living in a world where tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs are plentiful. Every student from non-user to active user will find something valuable and supportive in the course.

Week One:

Heredity, environment, & psychoactive drugs

Attitudes & values clarification

Risk & resiliency

Week Two:

Family & resiliency

Altered states of conscious & natural highs

Physical health and drugs

Week Three:

Developing a total healthy lifestyle

Maintaining self respect your mirror imagine

Shame & guilt associated with drug and alcohol use

Week Four:

Film & discussion: Roots of Addiction & Behavioral Compulsion

Week Five:

Drugs & social skills

What are the chances? Sexually transmitted diseases

Protecting yourself the relationship between drugs, anger & violence

Week Six:

Environmental pressure to use

Doesn't everyone use? Nope! Understanding normative rules in the culture

It's a way of life for me, & protective traditions in cultures and communities

Week Seven:

Film & discussion: Marijuana the mirror that magnifies

Week Eight:

Denial & treatment issues

Obstacles for a successful life

Arrest & criminality as a result of drugs

The Objective:
To foster balance in student's life around the use of mind- and mood-altering chemicals.

Goals & Outcomes:
To reduce risk associated with alcohol and drug use.

To provide resiliency skills and model for operating in high-risk environments with little or no support for sobriety.

To provide education and information about treatment options, and stages of addiction, denial recovery, relapse and living without mind and mood altering chemicals.