Budget
$100,000.00
Description
The complete misunderstood fixation of the Vape and the JUUL by adolescents. The susceptibility of the adolescent brain to this dangerous stimulant
The systemic dangers to the brain and body that is completely underestimated. The Tri-Fecta Gateway of Nicotine, Alcohol and Marijuana
Kids think it's safe because most parents think it's safe.
Student assembly: Engages students, opens their eyes and leads them to question their own misconceptions about marijuana and what it can do to the developing brain. Directly challenges their desensitized attitude toward vaping, e-juice and e-cigarettes. Educates as no other resource is doing.
Parent seminar: In-depth and eye-opening to prevalent use of electronic cigarettes and vapes among high school and middle school students. Gives parents the real scoop on how THC from marijuana is commercially available for e-cigarettes, and the connection and marketing being done directly to their kids.
Community seminar can be geared toward any audience:

Program Successes
We had a 4th grade child walk up to the speaker and gave him the vape he was using saying he no longer wanted to do it. This has happened many times in assemblies across the county.
Students who were experimenting with other drugs spoke with our presenters and talked to them about it and that they wanted help stopping use. They were given direction from counselors in their schools.

Other students came up to our speakers and told them things they have never voiced to anyone about their home situations etc. We had a 16yr old girl who told us she was being molested by her stepfather for several years, especially after her mother died of an overdose. She then went to the police dept and reported it. That man was found guilty of sexually abusing her and 4 other women in the community. He was sentenced to 135 years in prison. She is now a social worker helping other young girls who have been through the same sitiuations.

Now THAT is powerful!
Beneficiaries
General Public
Adults
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Pre/post survey results show that students understand and react to the information given after the assembly and use it to change the trajectory of their lives. Students bring vapes to educators and the presenters and voluntarily give them up. Students using drugs, smoking, or drinking and/or contemplating suicide are also positively affected. Parents and educators are also educated on this issue and use the information to combat this issue in the classroom and at home.
Short-term Success
Students turn in their vapes and begin to ask questions of themselves and others about the effects of using vapes, drugs, alcohol, and marijuana and what that may mean for their future.
Parents understand what a vape is, what thc is, fentanyl, and other drugs are and how kids can order these things online. They gain tools to use at home to begin meaningful conversations with their youth.

Educators use the information to help them take their classroom back and combat use in the classroom along with the disruptions it brings to others.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post testing both in digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
Physical health

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
An assembly for alcohol and drug awareness and prevention that uses current and salient accounts to demonstrate the real-life dangers associated with the misuse and abuse of alcohol, five categories of illicit drugs and over-the-counter substances. Our presenters give their real-life stories so students fully grasp the importance of making healthy life choices.
Program Successes
Students ask for help from Steered Straight for addiction, guidance, and other mentorship regarding drugs. We direct them to their counselors or the appropriate person in their school who then speaks with the parents.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Youth stop using and ask for help with siblings and family members who are in addiction.
Short-term Success
Students stop using drugs and influence their peers to stop use.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post testing surveys both in digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
Physical health

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
An in-depth student presentation to address a prevalent and deadly epidemic affecting adolescents today: prescription drug misuse, abuse and overdose.
The presentation focuses on opiates, opioids and education on other prescription classes, along with the truth about Fentanyl and its effects on our youth today.
Students learn the facts about Fentanyl and how taking just one pill can kill you.

Students are taught how the epidemic started, how it's getting worse and how they can stop it, as well as the evolution from opioids to heroin. They are provided with methods on how to avoid involvement and prevent it from affecting them personally. Students leave with an intense understanding and heightened caution about prescription medication and how to view these products in a more critical way so they are able to make good decisions and right choices.
Program Successes
Students refuse to engage in fentanyl use.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Communities that include students, parents, educators, and people in general what fentanyl is and know what the dangers are of using it in vapes and other forms.
Short-term Success
Students, parents, and the community are educated about fentanyl and educate others on it. Use declines.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post testing surveys both in digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
Physical health

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
This assembly delivers a unique message regarding the serious and ubiquitous nature of bullying. This presentation teaches students how to recognize and appropriately manage acts of bullying. It illustrates the consequences of bullying, as well as identifies avoidance techniques and alternatives to conflict.
Program Successes
Students who became friends after realizing that they were hurting a classmate after our program. They are still friends today.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Students understand how bullying affects their peers and stops doing it.
Short-term Success
Students realize that bullying is a negative actions and stop hurting others.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post test surveys in both digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
Mental health and wellbeing, physical health

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
This motivational assembly is designed specifically for 5th, 6th, 8th and 12th graders as they prepare to embark upon new chapters of their lives, which can be both confusing and exciting. This presentation discusses cornerstones for the transitional periods between educational and developmental stages. In doing so, it better prepares students to navigate and enjoy the next phases of their lives.
Alternatives to Violence - This is an anti-violence assembly that addresses personal and social issues related to anger, aggression and violence. This presentation underlines communication with trusted adults as a deterrent to violent and aggressive behavior. The speakers incorporate real-life experiences that encourage students to use their voices, not their fists.

T.A.G. or Truth About Gangs - A gang awareness and prevention assembly that discusses the harsh realities of gang involvement, including personal costs and legal consequences.
Program Successes
Gang members have given up their colors, stepped out and are now role models for youth coming behind them.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Youth make the choice to step out of a negative life experience and make better choices that affect their lives.
Short-term Success
Youth learn how to transition and make better choices regarding attitude, behaviors, learning, and relationships.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post test surveys both in digital and paper form
Program Areas Served
Mental and physical health

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Steered Straight is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the youth of America with a powerful message of prevention in order to steer them toward positive life paths. On top of the presentations and programs designed for students, we offer four Professional Development Seminars to educate teachers, administrators and professional staff on the behaviors, identification, laws and consequences surrounding the issues at hand. We also discuss methods for appropriately recognizing and addressing situations related to bullying, gang involvement, and drug and alcohol use/abuse. With a growing epidemic across America for drug overdose and overdose death, there has been a lack of real information for educators and parents about how this epidemic has migrated into communities. We cover how the age of first use, experimentation and regular, habitual use and abuse has lowered, hitting our kids at an even younger age. This seminar explains the signs and symptoms, and what to look for.
Program Successes
An educator did not know what a vape was and was able to spot a youth in her classroom vaping THC and removed him from it and got him to the counselor who helped the youth with a home situation that was not good, which was he was vaping: to escape it.
Category
Education  - Educational Programs 
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Adults
Long-term Success
Educators know what to do and can combat issues i the classroom that disrupt their learning environment.
Short-term Success
Educators have tools to help them deal with situations in the classroom and can implement them immediately.
Program Success Monitored By
Educators who implement this education have measurable outcomes on how the behaviors and actions of students changed.
Program Areas Served
School climate

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Our "Back to the Classroom Core Curriculum Support Program" is loaded with daily behavioral modification strategies through student journaling and peer leadership, weekly classroom activities and hundreds of opportunities for students to develop mature decision making. Each module within the program is guided by monthly themes that will give students a daily mindfulness of their behavior, school core values and national issues related to substance abuse.

"Back to the Classroom Core Curriculum Support Program" consists of seven modules with each one following a monthly theme. These modules prompt needed conversations between students, school guidance teams and parents and provide activities that guide students through their stages of growth and development.
Program Successes
Students started discussions amongst themselves regarding the subject matter and created a support group for their peers.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Structured curriculum incorporated into the daily details that enhances school curriculum and learning by creating teachable moments between students and educators.
Short-term Success
Youth begin to ask questions about the subject matter and create discussions that lead to deeper understanding of the subject matter presented and begins to act on it.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre-post tests surveys in both digital and paper format.
Program Areas Served
Curriculum

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Michael DeLeon is a needed voice. A recovered addict, ex-offender, former gang member and a national leader in prevention and recovery, addiction advocacy and criminal justice reform, Michael delivers a seminar that will be remembered and referenced for a long time to come.

Michael discusses the biggest threats to families including the "Tri-Fecta Gateway®, Marijuana legalization and commercialization, the e-cigarette and vaping/JUULing trends and the digital relationship to substance use and abuse.

Michael will introduce the most underutilized medical breakthrough in America today called Pharmacogenetic testing, a scientific breakthrough that shows parents exactly how the body individually and uniquely metabolizes medications. The science will literally end trial-and-error prescribing in America.
Program Successes
Parents have been instrumental in helping their struggling youth with behavioral and mental health because of what they learned in our program.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Adults
Long-term Success
Parents learn and implement strategies to help develop the mind of their child for positive decision-making and develop crucial communication with their youth about hard topics.
Short-term Success
Parents know what to look for in behaviors and attitudes with their child at home that deter their child from performing well in school.
Program Success Monitored By
Parents give us feedback on what they have learned by being in this session.
Program Areas Served
schools and community

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Help employers develop and maintain a successful drug free workplace
Components of a drug free workplace, employee's assistance program and drug testing
Review policy already in place
Range of consequences for drug use in the workplace
Cost savings in a drug free workplace
How a drug free family (home) supports a drug free workplace

Better understand what makes addiction a disease so as to break the stigma of misinformation that keeps those struggling with it from pursuing the help they need.
Prevention strategies targeting the root of the problem along with early intervention to help reduce the negative consequences of substance misuse before the occur.

Changing trends with synthetic drugs, e-cigarettes, vapes and alcohol
Signs and symptoms of opioid and other substance misuse
The negative effects of addiction stigma and how to combat it
Tools and resources to help family members and loved ones lead healthier lives
Program Successes
Employees implement changes in how they work and at home regarding drugs, alcohol, marijuana, and mental health.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Adults
Long-term Success
Employers have less absence from work for employees, their production is better, and they are happier at work.
Short-term Success
Instrumental change in the workplace for employees and for the homelife of the employee.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post testing surveys in digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
Workplace

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
The nature of substance abuse and addiction
The origin and process of the current epidemic of opiates and heroin within their communities
To articulate the reasoning behind much of the recidivism and relapsing drug use of those with ties to the criminal justice system;
A deeper empathy toward the subjects they come across and the importance of police in the success of those seeking recovery
The history of PAARI, Angel Programs and unique additions to these programs
To explain the long-term consequences, not often discussed, of an arrest, a conviction or involvement within the criminal justice system
How first responders, law enforcement and public safety can work together to address this problem within the community
Program Successes
Officers are now able to see both sides of the situation and are able to better understand how the mind of the individual works so they can act with intention, caring, and know they are doing what they love to the best of their ability by helping those they serve in the community.
Beneficiaries
Adults
Long-term Success
In today's substance abuse epidemic, where the relationship between law enforcement and the community has so drastically changed, it is important to understand the changing role of police officers and first responders
Short-term Success
Our Police officers and first responders realize that what they do matters and creates a relationship between the individual and the badge-holder for the greater good.
Program Success Monitored By
Changes in the way officers and individuals interact and relate to each other that changes the dynamic of the community.
Program Areas Served
Law Enforcement, First Responders.

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Students will gain a better understanding about the nature of substance abuse and addiction Students will gain more knowledge about the drug nicotine
Students will gain new understanding how alcohol, tobacco/nicotine and marijuana have drastically changed in nature and substance as well as the marketing of them to today's youth
Students will be better equipped to speak with one another about adverse childhood experiences, trauma, substance use disorder and addiction as well as better equipped to ask for help from counselors
Students will learn about the increased levels of anxiety and why teens are seemingly more anxious. They will be presented with approaches to coping skills, defense mechanisms and the strength that lies in asking for help. They will receive a 7-page guide to show them how to develop their own "Personal Stress Management Guide."
Students will be provided a full drug-education curriculum, available digitally from one of two sources chosen by the school district.
Program Successes
Children and parents still learn about these hard subjects even if they are not in a public setting.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Adults
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Educational learning that reaches those who do not attend public school, are homeschooled, or need other learning outside of the classroom.
Short-term Success
Youth, parents, schools, and the community can access drug and alcohol education via digital form so that they are educated about issues that affect them short and long-term.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre/post test in surveys both in digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
education

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Especially for Jail and Prison Inmates:

Powerful, unique message about the social difficulties of re-acclimation, but the internalized message of how to overcome those barriers to reentry coming from someone with real life experience
Thought provoking material on the success principles of Re-Entry
A very atypical program on why victim-stance is the most damaging and self-defeating mindset for anyone returning to society from jail or prison
Profound message sharing his vulnerable ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) experiences that literally create a paradigm shift, where dealing with trauma becomes a sign of strength rather than their perceived sign of weakness.


Program Successes
Individuals who are speaking with our program to educate others about what they did to overcome their challenges and recover themselves in the process.
Beneficiaries
People with substance use disorder
Formerly incarcerated people & incarcerated people
Adults
Long-term Success
The Learning Objectives: 
Participants will gain a better understanding about the nature of substance abuse and addiction and how to journey from addiction to Recovery
Participants will gain more knowledge about the origin and process of the current epidemic of opiates and heroin within their communities
Participants will be able to articulate the reasoning behind much of the recidivism and relapsing drug use of those with ties to the criminal justice system, especially their own situations
Participants will gain new understanding and learn new strategies to not only plan for their re-entry, but how to put those strategies into place upon release.

Short-term Success
At the end of the 10-lesson Educational Series, participants who complete all steps will understand the concepts of Michael DeLeon's Ten Principles of Successful Re-Entry:

Detoxify Your MIND, Not Just Your Body
Forgive Yourself
Clean up your Friends List
Take 100% Responsibility For Your Life
Don't Let Your Past Dictate Your Future
Stand UP To Yourself
Discipline Your Emotions and Feelings
Put as Much Effort into Recovery as you did Getting High
Elevate Yourself
Never EVER Give Up!
Program Success Monitored By
Recidivism rates that go down.
Program Areas Served
Corrections

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Understanding how individuals can cause themselves mental anguish and heartbreak by the things they tell themselves. This program walks through how what we say to ourselves affects mental health and wellbeing, and physical health and how to overcome them.
Program Successes
A young girl who kept telling herself that she was nobody and no one cares for her now works with our program to inspire other youth to do the same.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Adults
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
Freedom from depressive thoughts, actions, and other mental issues that can cause physical and mental health issues. Realizing who you are and how to combat negative thoughts and behaviors.
Short-term Success
Overcoming negative self-talk that contributes to one's wellbeing that includes depression and self worth and value.
Program Success Monitored By
Pre and post survey in both digital and paper form.
Program Areas Served
mental health and wellbeing