Three major content areas are covered by the Life Skills Training program.

• drug resistance skills,
• self-management skills, and
• general social skills.

Drug resistance skills and information provides material that deals directly with the social factors promoting drug use. This content area includes material designed to:

• Increase awareness of social influences toward drug use,
• Correct the misperception that everyone is using drugs,
• Promote antidrug norms, teach prevention-related information about drug abuse, and teach drug resistance skills.

I’m Special was developed in the mid-1970s, paralleling the evolution of a new national concept of primary prevention. This concept recognized that the problem did not lie in the drug but in the user. The student had become the focus of prevention. This is a universal program.

The goals of I’m special are to promote self-worth, healthy living skills, and effective group cooperation in 3^rd and 4^th grade students by helping students develop:

• realization that every person is special
• identification of what is important to them and to others
• awareness of their own feelings, and ways to handle them
• sensitivity to one another’s feelings
• new methods of decision-making
• group cooperation skills
  

The Strengthening Families Program (Kumpfer et al. 1996) Strengthening Families is a selective multicomponent, family-focused program that provides prevention programming for 6 – to 10 year-old children of substance abusers.

The Strengthening Families program contains three elements:

• a parent training program,
• a children’s skills training program,
• and a family skills training program

Parent training improves parenting skills and reduces substance abuse by parents. Children’s skills training decreases children’s negative behaviors and increase their socially acceptable behaviors. Family skills training improve the family environment by involving both generations in learning and practicing their new behaviors.