Life Skills Training Program
Investigators: Gilbert J. Botvin, Ana Eng, & Christine L. Williams

Life 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.

Note: A version has 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. 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.

Materials in this program package are licensed for use in one implementation site. All materials are copyrighted and may not be copied or distributed. If you would like to order additional materials or program packages, please contact: Laurie Rose, Director of Customer Support, Email: lrose@socio.com Tel: 650-383-6253.