Curriculum (Project Northland)

Slick Tracy is a four-week program that provides a way for students and parents to discuss alcohol-related issues. Comic strips and interactive activities make this curriculum fun and engaging. The program ends with individual research projects that are presented at a poster fair to parents and community members.

Amazing Alternatives is an eight-session curriculum that utilizes peer-led activities such as group discussion, class games, role plays, and peer-made audio tapes to delay the onset of alcohol use. Students are taught skills to identify and resist pressure to use alcohol, encourage alcohol-free alternatives, and change the acceptability of alcohol use.

During this eight-session program, students work in small groups to reinforce the messages learned during Slick Tracy and Amazing Alternatives and to learn about the groups, both professional and political, in their communities that influence the alcohol use of adolescents. Students work on projects that encourage them to be positive influences in their communities, schools, peer groups, and with younger students and siblings.

Class Action shows students the social and legal consequences of teenage alcohol use. Students are divided into groups and each group is given a hypothetical civil case to prepare and present. Cases include Drinking and Driving on Trial, Binge-drinking on Trial, and Drinking and Violence on Trial. The goal of Class Action is to change the social norms surrounding alcohol use.