Grades 1 – 5:

Protecting You / Protecting Me (PY/PM) is a 5-year, classroom-based alcohol-use prevention curriculum for elementary students in grades one through five (6 to 11 years old) and high school students in 11^th and 12^th grade (16-18 years).  Designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation’s youth, PY/PM:

v     Is proven to change students’ knowledge about their brains and personal development

v     Improves elementary students’ vehicle safety skills:  Their ability to protect themselves when they have no option but to ride with an adult who is not alcohol-free

v     Increases high school students’ perceptions of the risks associated with underage alcohol use

v     Improves high school students’ teaching and presentation skills

The curriculum:

v     Incorporates the latest research on human brain development

v     Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21

v     Includes parental involvement activities