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Prevention Education at Every Age

In the mid-1970s, in response to the growing and debilitating drug epidemic facing our country's youth, the Mendez Foundation began to focus on educating students about the social and health consequences of substance abuse. Since then, our signature Too Good for Drugs program has used research and evidence-based methods to help children develop the social and emotional skills to build positive friendships, communicate effectively, resist peer pressure and influence, and make healthy choices.