Too Good for Drugs is a universal violence prevention and character education program that promotes the development of the skills, attitudes, and behaviors consistent with positive, pro-social living to encourage healthy emotions management and actions, resistance to peer pressure and influence, and self-awareness and social awareness to foster a drug free lifestyle.
Too Good for Drugs offers developmentally appropriate curricula for Kindergarten through High School. Each grade level builds on previous levels developing the skills sequentially with engaging, age-appropriate lessons and activities.
Too Good focuses on the risk factors and negative social norms that can be positively affected in the classroom: favorable attitudes toward substance use, violence, and other problem behaviors and friends who engage in problem behavior.
Too Good builds protection within the student by:
Too Good for Drugs introduces and develops self-efficacy and interpersonal skills linked with healthy development and academic success to promote self-awareness and social awareness:
Additional skills development and application concepts built into the course at the elementary level to promote positive social development and pro-social peer bonding and a perception of the harms of substance use and a rejection of substance use as acceptable include:
Too Good for Drugs promotes character development by strengthening nine character traits:
The Mendez Foundation developed Logic Models for Too Good to map out the Theory of Change and demonstrate graphically the assumptions that drive Too Good. The logic model communicates an "if-then" message of what changes the program intends to produce. It helps to make the connections among the target group, goals, strategies, objectives and planned program results and lays out what the program is expected to achieve and how it is expected to work.
Each of the Too Good evaluation studies were conducted by third-party researchers and used randomized treatment-control group designs (pre-test/post-test, 20-week post-test, or one-year follow-up). The Researchers examined pre-test equivalence between treatment and control groups; potential bias of loss of student data over time; quality of program implementation; and estimates of reliability and validity of assessment tools.
The award-winning Too Good programs have undergone rigorous, independent evaluation studies to measure their effects on students' skills, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. Studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national evaluation conferences. These studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Too Good.
Organization/Agency | TGFD K-8 | TGFV K-8 | TGFD&V High School |
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What Works Clearinghouse: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Science | Positive effects on behavior View Report | Positive effect on behavior & knowledge, attitudes & values View Report | Positive effect on behavior & knowledge, attitudes & values View Report |
CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning | Not Yet Rated | Elementary SELect Program View Report | Not Yet Rated |
NREPP: National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs & Practices | Reviewed evaluation View Report | Reviewed evaluation View Report | Reviewed evaluation View Report |
CEBC: California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare | TGFD Grade 6 Scientific Rating 2 - Supported by Evidence View Report | Not Yet Rated | Not Yet Rated |
OJJDP: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention | Promising program View Report | Exemplary program View Report | Exemplary program View Report |
Promising Practices Network: Programs that Work | Screened program View Report | Screened program View Report | Screened program View Report |
SAMHSA: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration | Model program | Model program | Model program |
Too Good programs have earned recognition and acclaim for their impact in promoting safer and healthy youth and communities.
Recognition for Too Good for Drugs™ in Drug Strategies "Making the Grade": "Some very strong elements in this very detailed, 10 session per year curriculum. Provides developmentally appropriate information about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. Normative education activities creative and compelling, new ideas for games. Includes no-use pledge."
Recognition for Too Good for Violence in Drug Strategies "Safe Schools, Safe Students": "A delightful package of materials (that) complements this highly interactive 4-9 session program. Strongly focused on critical skill areas. Extremely detailed instructions for teachers. Very complete."
The Teacher's Manual layout and design makes implementation easy with quick set-up and guided materials preparation and lesson objectives and activity timing. The layout...
The Student Workbook is an integral part of the lessons. Students launch into the activities by naming a personal short-term...
The Student Workbook is an integral part of the lessons. Students launch into the activities by naming a personal short-term...
Setting a reachable goal is the first step to building confidence, self-esteem, and positive expectations for the future. The Goal...
The Otto Matic Poster is part of the Too Good Grade 3 curriculum. Item# A3315
This glossy, full color poster creatively presents the steps to making a good decision in a quick, easy to remember...
Practice makes perfect, and what could be a more fun way to practice the skills we have learned in Too...
Students practice their artistic talents as they identify healthy ways to manage stress and relax . Teams compete to identify...
Students show what they know about the safe use and handling of medicines in this fun whole-class activity. Students answer...
Not all peer-pressure situations can be managed the same way. In this whole-class activity, students identify the best peer-pressure refusal...
A good friendship starts when you introduce yourself and talk about the things you like and dislike. If you share...
Oh no! Otto has had a power failure. We have to find the source of the power failure so we...
Consider the Consequences! In this quick-paced matching activity, students assess the decisions their peers face and determine if the potential...
Twenty Feeling Words are presented on these 8.5” x 11’ Display Cards. Item # A4341
It's not always enough to say no in a peer-pressure situation. Knowing what to say and what to do in...
These cute and colorful stickers make a great classroom reward for excellent participation. Roll of 50 3” Stickers. Item# A4339
Bag of 360 bingo-style game chips for use with Support System (Too Good for Drugs and Social Perspectives Grade 3,...