Home PageLife Skills Training (LST) is a tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse (mainly marijuana) prevention program for middle
or junior high school students. It is a three-year program that provides adolescents with the motivation and skills
necessary to resist peer and media pressures to use drugs, fosters the development of personal self-management skills
and general social skills, and promotes anti-drug norms.
In its current form, the 3 year school-based program is designed for middle and junior high school students (year 1:
grades 6/7, year 2: grades 7/8, year 3: grades 8/9). The program has worked with a diverse range of adolescents,
having been tested on white, African-American, and Latino youth. It also works for boys and girls, as well as
adolescents living in suburban and urban environments. The program may also be implemented through community-based
organizations that serve adolescents.
A new version had recently been designed for upper elementary students (third through sixth grade). It contains
material for a total of 24 classes (8 classes per year) to be taught during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades or the 4th,
5th and 6th grades.
Note: This Sociometrics-produced LST program box only includes the middle and junior high curriculum (sixth-
through ninth-grade curriculum), and not the upper elementary curriculum.
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