Protecting You, Protecting Me - NE
Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM®) is an alcohol use prevention curriculum for children in grades 1-5. PY/PM helps reach children before they have fully shaped their attitudes and opinions about alcohol use by youth and their role in preventing it. The curriculum focuses on the effects of alcohol on the developing brain during the first 21 years of life.
Protecting You/Protecting Me is the only curriculum that teaches children how to protect themselves and make informed decisions on this topic. The curriculum covers specific ways to handle difficult situations such as reducing the risks if riding with a driver who is not alcohol-free. In addition, the lessons cover a variety of life skills including media awareness, stress management, resistance strategies, decision making and communication. Students learn these skills and information through group activities, structured discussion, role-play, exploring real life topics and issues, and parent involvement. Lessons are designed to be infused into a school’s core curriculum and meet required educational standards.
Research shows that the risk for alcohol and other drug use skyrockets when children enter the 6th grade, between the ages of 12 and 13. To be effective in preventing alcohol use by teenagers, we must reach out to and educate children in grades one through five.
MADD Nebraska Protecting You/Protecting Me
MADD Nebraska’s Protecting You/Protecting Me program has developed eight, age appropriate lessons targeted to Nebraska youths in Grades 1-5. Theses alcohol-related lessons focus on the Brain, Growth and Development, Health and Safety, Rules and Laws, Friends, Choices and Decisions, Media Awareness, and Communication.
For More Information
To learn more about the MADD Nebraska Protecting You/Protecting Me curriculum, contact our state office at staff@maddnebraska.org or by phone at 402-434-5330 or 1-800-444-6233. For more information about the MADD National Protecting You/Protecting Me program, please visit their website at http://www.pypm.org/about_us/index.cfm.