The Too Good toolkit includes everything you need to teach the lessons:
- Teacher's Manual
- 30 Student Workbooks
- Goal Setting Poster
- Decision Making Poster
- Peer-Pressure Refusal Strategy Cards
- Refuse to Use Cube
- Space Walk Card Game
- Buddy System Junior Card Game
- One Minute to Launch Card Game
- Cosmic Cleanup Card Game
- Space Race Game
- Game Pieces w/ Die
Curriculum Features include:
- Ten 45-minute fully scripted, research-based lessons conveniently presented in a tabbed three-ring binder, making them easy to use and enjoyable to teach.
- Comprehensive planner for each lesson with clearly-stated, measurable objectives, topic rationale, and allotted activity times.
- Parent component, “Home Workout: Exercises for Adults and Kids,” to extend prevention skills and messages into the home.
- Looking for More? Each lesson includes cross-curricular lesson extenders with suggestions for infusion, recommended reading, and additional activities for reinforcing important concepts and skills.
- Assessment materials to measure student outcomes and process outcomes including implementation effectiveness and fidelity of implementation as well as student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.
- Pre-delivery subject matter content review and lesson delivery guides to prepare instructors for more complex lesson topics
- Too Good for Drugs logic model including the program’s theory of change and the proven strategies incorporated into the lessons.
- Strategies and methods to build family and school connections to reinforce the healthy social and emotional development of the students.
Lessons Overview RTI / PBIS Alignment Lessons Sample
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Comprehensive Prevention Education
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.
Mitigates risk factors and builds protective factors
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:
- Providing opportunities for pro-social involvement
- Establishing positive norms including healthy beliefs and clear standards
- Promoting bonding to pro-social peers
- Increasing self-efficacy and interpersonal skills
Strengths-Based Skills Development
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:
- Setting Reachable Goals
- Making Responsible Decisions
- Identifying and Managing Emotions
- Communicating Effectively
- Bonding with Prosocial Peers
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:
- Managing Mistakes and Disappointment
- Resisting Peer Pressure
- Understanding Peer Influence
- Making Healthy Choices
- Safe Use of Medicines - Grades K - 5
- Effects of Nicotine Use - Grades 2 - 5
- Effects of Alcohol Use - Grades 3 - 5
- Effects of Marijuana and THC Use - Grade 5
Develops Core Character Traits
Too Good for Drugs promotes character development by strengthening nine character traits:
- Caring
- Cooperation
- Courage
- Fairness
- Honesty
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Self-discipline
- Integrity
Understanding the Logic Model
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.
Research Design
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.
2001 Research Report
2003 Research Report
2005 Research Report
| Organization/Agency | TGFD K-8 | TGFV K-8 | TGFD&V High School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Awards
Too Good programs have earned recognition and acclaim for their impact in promoting safer and healthy youth and communities.
- Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association's (FADAA) Best Practices Award
- The American Medical Association's National Congress on Adolescent Health
- The President's Child Safety Partnership
- Southeast Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities Shining Star Award
- Our programs received a high rating in "Drug Strategies"
Other Recognition
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."