Author: Amanda Sublett
Planning Unit: Marion County CES
Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Plan of Work: Youth and Adults Overcome Life Situations by Acquiring Life Skills
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
The Taylor County Cooperative Extension Service Implemented Truth & Consequences: The Choice is Yours, a scenario based role-play activity designed to help students learn more about the physical, legal, financial, and emotional consequences of substance abuse, for Taylor County and Campbellsville Independent high school students. Seventy community partners and adult volunteers participated in the event as well. Student evaluation results revealed the following: 40% of freshman indicated that it was slightly or not wrong at all for someone their age to participate in one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage; 63% also indicated that there was slight or no risk in people harming themselves physically or in other ways if they participate in one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage; and 43% indicated slight or not risk in harm associated with marijuana use. After participating in Truth or Consequences, 92% developed a better understanding of the emotional consequences of substance abuse, 90% developed a better understanding of the legal consequences of substance abuse, 89% would be able to access help in the community if they had a substance abuse issue, and 88% developed a better understanding of the health consequences of substance abuse.
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