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POLICESMART A Program Designed and Facilitated by the

Suffolk County Police Department Presented by:

Alison Bruno, Assistant Principal of Maplewood Faye Robins, Principal of Stimson

Steve Toto, Assistant Principal of Birchwood Officer Wendy Verlotte, Suffolk County Police Department

What is the PoliceSmart Program?

 This program was developed by the Suffolk County Police Department to replace the DARE program.

 The Suffolk County Police Department offers a comprehensive program to our schools that address many of the difficult issues that children face as they grow up.

What does the PoliceSmart Program look like in South Huntington UFSD?

Grade 3 & 4 PoliceSmart Program

  Classroom visits are facilitated by Suffolk County Police Officer Wendy Verlotte.

  There are two 30 minute classroom visits per grade level.

  The topics are Strangers and Home Alone for grade 3, and the topics are Rumor Clinic and Internet Safety for grade 4.

  The purpose of the classroom visit portion of the program is to begin building a good foundation for a positive relationship between the children and police.

Grade 5 PoliceSmart Program   Birchwood and Maplewood have six one hour assemblies

in a PowerPoint presentation format.

  Once again, these presentations are facilitated by Suffolk County Police Officer Wendy Verlotte.

  These assemblies are usually made up of small groups containing approximately three classes per session.

  Each class attends one assembly per topic on the designated date.

  The topics include Violence/Bullying, Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, Beyond the Gateway Drugs, and Gangs.

Grade 7 PoliceSmart Program

 Stimson Middle School hosts Officer Wendy as she meets with all seventh grade students in their Health classes.

 There are three 45 minute sessions. These sessions are addressed through PowerPoint presentations.

 The topics are Beyond the Gateway Drugs, Heroin, and Vehicular Safety.

POLICESMART LESSONS FOR GRADES 3

STRANGERS  Objectives:

 To learn to manage dangerous situations  To strengthen decision-making skills

HOME ALONE  Objectives:

 To identify safe and unsafe activities when home alone  To practice decision making skills


INTERNET SAFETY  Objectives:

 To identify dangers on the internet  To build critical-thinking and decision-making skills

RUMOR CLINIC  Objectives:

 To help students understand how rumors start and the negative effects that they could have.

 Students will be able to recognize factors that create rumors and demonstrate steps they can take to evaluate the validity of the source of information.


TOBACCO  Objectives:

 To help students understand the harmful effects and illegal issues involved with tobacco. Students will recognize several negative health and legal consequences of tobacco products.

ALCOHOL  Objectives:

 To help students understand and identify alcohol products, consequences of use and the legal ramifications. Students will understand possible damage to health and wellness and understand the consequences of illegal use.

Public Service Announcement on Tobacco

Public Service Announcement on Alcohol


VIOLENCE/BULLYING  Objectives:

 To help students understand the harmful effects and illegal consequences of violent behavior

 Students will recognize different forms of violence and know several avoidance techniques.

GANGS  Objectives:

 To help students recognize the dangers of gang activity.  To help students recognize the negative legal, family, and

community consequences of gang activity.  To have students recognize positive alternatives to gang

activity.

Public Service Announcement on Bullying


MARIJUANA  Objectives:

 To help students comprehend and identify the harmful health effects of marijuana and its legal consequences

 Students will understand marijuana myths and know the differences between marijuana and tobacco products.

BEYOND THE GATEWAY DRUGS  Objectives:

 Students will be able to recognize the health effects and legal consequences of over the counter, prescription drugs and other illicit drugs.

 Students will understand legal drugs can be as dangerous as illegal drugs.

Public Service Announcement on Marijuana

Beyond the Gateway Drugs

PoliceSmart Lessons for Grade 7 BEYOND THE GATEWAY DRUGS Objectives:   Students will be able to recognize the health effects and legal

consequences associated with the use of over the counter, prescription and other illicit drugs.

  Students will understand that all drugs are dangerous.

HEROIN Objectives:   To help students comprehend and identify the harmful effects of heroin and

the legal consequences associated with its use.   Students will understand the illegal origins of the production, sale and

distribution of this drug.

VEHICLE SURVIVAL Objectives:   Students will understand the importance of wearing a seatbelt regardless of

the position in which they are seated within a vehicle.   Students will be introduced to the “Ten Deadlies”, the most common

preventable mistakes made by new drivers.

Public Service Announcement on Beyond the Gateway Drugs (Grade 7)

Public Service Announcement on Heroin

Public Service Announcement on Vehicular Safety

Birchwood/Maplewood Curricular Connections with the

PoliceSmart Program

HealthSmart DARE Replacement Program

Healthy Life Styles and Decision Making

PoliceSmart Program

 The PoliceSmart program deals with addressing the issues confronting our children in today’s society.

 At the end of the program, the children come away with the information they need to make good decisions that will keep them safe and healthy as well as allow them to grow up to be law-abiding citizens.

HealthSmart

 The HealthSmart program was designed for elementary and middle school students.

 South Huntington adopted this program in 2004.  The program’s curriculum responds to

challenges facing children and youths today.  It lays the foundation early in their formative

years for the crucial health choices they will face in childhood, during adolescence, and throughout their lives.

 Unit 1: Personal & Family Health  Unit 2: Safety and Injury Prevention  Unit 3: Nutrition & Physical Activity  Unit 4: Tobacco & Alcohol

Other Drug Prevention (grade 5 only)

 HealthSmart’s curriculum builds upon topics and issues previously addressed in the prior grades.

Grade 3 HealthSmart and PoliceSmart

PoliceSmart  The Strangers and Home Alone programs

promote good decision making and teaches safety procedures to establish a safe home and to keep children safe when away from the home.

HealthSmart  Unit 2: Safety and Injury Prevention

 Students learn to think, choose, and act to keep themselves and others safe and injury free by personalizing safety concerns, teaching safety strategies, goal setting, and advocating for safety.

Grade 3 HealthSmart and PoliceSmart

HealthSmart  Unit 2: Safety and Injury Prevention

Lesson 1: Being Safe

 The objective is to explain ways to be Safety Smart in a variety of everyday situations, and identify actions that will keep them safe.

 HealthSmart lessons related to PoliceSmart:  Stranger Smart – How would calling home when

you’re out or at a friend’s house help?  Calling for Help – What must you do first to use a

cordless or car phone? (Turn it on.)

Grade 4 HealthSmart and PoliceSmart PoliceSmart

 Rumor Clinic- Help students understand how rumors start and the negative effects they could have. Students will be able to recognize factors that create rumors and demonstrate steps they can take to evaluate the validity of the source of information.

HealthSmart  Unit 1: Personal and Family Health

 Students learn to think, choose, and act to be healthy by conducting self assessments of stressful situations and applying stress-reduction strategies. They learn to deal with conflict in safe and peaceful ways.

 Lesson 2: Understanding and Managing Conflict   In this lesson the students work on understanding and resolving

conflict in a healthy way. This lesson also addresses that rumors can cause conflict.


  Internet Safety- Students will be able to identify the dangers on the internet and build critical-thinking and decision making skills.

HealthSmart   Unit 2: Safety & Injury Prevention

  Lesson 1: Students define taking a risk, identify risks they have taken, and explain what makes a risk good or bad. In this lesson the students identify people that they can ask for help and those who make them feel safe. They also learn how to assess how safe they feel in situations.

  Lesson 2: Students will be able to identify signals based upon their feelings when something is wrong. They will also be able to identify feelings, actions, and thoughts that signal it’s time to get help.

  Lesson 3: Students will be able to analyze a variety of problems and determine the type of help needed. They will also learn whom they can go to for help when they have problems. Students will be able to demonstrate what to say when being pressured to do something that is unsafe or hurtful. The lesson also deals with being pressured into things and resisting dares.


  The Alcohol program teaches students how to identify issues surrounding alcohol usage and the use of the media to influence consumption, as well as promoting good decision making as to avoid consumption until after the legal age of 21. After 21, they are encouraged to drink responsibility.

HealthSmart   Unit 4:Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drug Prevention

 Students learn to think, choose, and act to remain alcohol free.  Students learn how alcohol affects the body.  Students make connections between alcohol and feelings, peers,

personal choices and consequences.  Students identify and evaluate media attempts to influence what you

think, feel, and do in relation to alcohol.  Students make a pledge and work together with their peers to be

alcohol free.  Students explore the problems and stressors kids face when family

members abuse alcohol.

Grade 5 HealthSmart and PoliceSmart   HealthSmart lessons related to PoliceSmart:

 Alcohol & the Body  Alcohol & Feelings  Alcohol & Peers  Alcohol & Personal Choices  Alcohol & the Media  Alcohol & Feelings  A Closer Look at Me & Alcohol  My Pledge to Be Alcohol Free  Peer Power – Alcohol Free Together  When Friends and Family Abuse Alcohol  Staying Alcohol Free

HealthSmart   Unit 4:Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drug Prevention

 The important topic of Tobacco is addressed through our HealthSmart curricular program in Grade 4. Tobacco is addressed in a very similar fashion as Alcohol and is primarily taught in Grade 5.

HealthSmart and PoliceSmart PoliceSmart

  The Tobacco program teaches students how to identify issues surrounding tobacco usage and the influence of the media, as well as promoting good decision making as to avoid ever starting smoking. HealthSmart (Taught in Grade 4)

  Unit 4:Tobacco & Alcohol Prevention  Students learn to think, choose, and act to be healthy

by analyzing influences on their choices around tobacco and alcohol.

 Students strengthen their verbal and non-verbal communication skills and become advocates for being tobacco and alcohol free.

HealthSmart and PoliceSmart

HealthSmart lessons related to PoliceSmart (Taught in gr. 4):   Reasons to Stay Tobacco and Alcohol Free   What We Know About Tobacco and Alcohol   Saying NO Takes Practice   Practicing How To Say NO   Saying NO in My World   Take It From Me – Be Drug Free!

The unit combines alcohol and tobacco together. It addresses the dangers to your health and the importance to resist the peer pressure at the start.


  The Bullying/Violence and Gangs programs teach students how to identify and avoid violence, as well as promote good decision making as to avoid the possible temptation to join a gang.

HealthSmart   Unit 2: Safety and Injury Prevention

 Students learn to think, choose, and act to keep themselves and others safe while at school.

 Students examine the rights, responsibilities, and actions involved in keeping themselves safe at school by reviewing school safety rules and practicing school safety procedures.

 Students explore bullying and feelings, as well as learn strategies for preventing, responding to, and reporting bullying. They take action to prevent school fights and learn how to help friends in trouble.

Grade 5 HealthSmart and PoliceSmart HealthSmart

  Unit 2: Safety and Injury Prevention Lesson 3: Preventing School Bullying

  Students will:  Shape peer norms that view bullying as unacceptable.  Identify reasons kids bully.  Describe how to recognize bullying.

 HealthSmart lessons related to PoliceSmart:  Understanding Bullying – “No matter how it is done, bullying

is cruel and unacceptable, and sometimes breaks the law.”  Bullying and Feelings – Victims feelings: scared, sad, lonely,

frustrated, helpless, ashamed, inferior, angry, isolated, humiliated  Preventing & Reporting Bullying – strategies for

preventing and reporting to an adult; helping others from bullying based upon various situations presented.

School Wide Programs In BW & MW

 Project Wisdom – Daily Announcements  Motivational Media Video Assembly Program  Peer Mediation (Grades 4 & 5) – Conflict Resolution

 Social Worker & Psychologist Services  Character Education in BW & MW

STIMSON/SILAS WOOD

Focus on Substance Abuse

Health Education, Guidance, and Home and Careers

GRADE 6 Connections

THROUGH OUR GUIDANCE COUNSELORS AND THE “PROJECT FRIENDSHIP PROGRAM” WE DELIVER LESSONS THAT INCLUDE:   “How To Become a Better Listener”   · “If this happened to Me, I would…”   · “Making a Plan”   · Decision making   · Internet Safety Video   · Bullying Video   · Don’t Pick on Me video   · A Kid’s Guide to Feelings videos

Grade 6 Connections Woven into the fabric of all home and careers lessons:

  Increase self-worth  · Reduce stress  · Control anxiety  · Keep a positive attitude  · Keep healthy and safe both physically and mentally  · Make new friends  · Be a positive example  · Set goals  · Make sound decisions  · Avoid peer pressure  · Look for peaceful solutions  · Appreciate family and friends

GRADE 7 HEALTH PROGRAM

 THE POLICE SMART PROGRAM

 Gateway Drugs Beyond Marijuana  includes OTC and prescription drugs that may lead to heroin use.

 Heroin

 Vehicle Safety (seatbelt safety)

Grade 7 Health Smart Curriculum

 As it relates to substance abuse we include:  Substance abuse – tobacco, alcohol and other drugs  Refusal skills development  Decision making skills development  Assertiveness skills development  Bullying, violence and gang awareness  Internet safety and cyberbullying  Tri CYA lessons on internet safety

SMS School Wide Programs Regarding Substance Abuse

  Red Ribbon Week – End of December  organized by health educators and SADD club

members (shared with SW)   HIV/AIDS quilt display   Public Service Announcements daily during December

regarding substance abuse   Supported the organization and participated in our district

information night on Heroin   Announcements and “graffiti” about substance abuse in

glass walkway created by SADD members   Guidance groups for alcohol/drug awareness, anger

management, bereavement, assertiveness, multicultural, study skills, male peer group, female peer group, careers group – all give students the opportunity to focus on their issues in a safe and nurturing environment

Thank you for attending our informational session on the

PoliceSmart program in South Huntington.

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