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Search Institute Survey Results Results from the Search Institute Survey Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors Top 10 Survey Questions: Southington STEPS and the Search Institute Survey Southington STEPS Coalition Custom Report STEPS Coalition aggregate - February 2022  

Free Resources on Family Communications and More Scroll down to find important information to help families build open and honest communication. Make sure you know the risks of substance use for young people and the actions steps you can take to keep everyone safe. Video Resources Talk to Your Kids PSA Family Communication Tips Practical Ways to Improve Communication The Importance of Family Dinners 12 Things Parents Can Do to Prevent Addiction How Miscommunication Happens and How [...]

ABC Annual Training Introduction Click the video to the left for the introduction portion of our ABC Training. This video can be shown prior to the rest of the training and can be sent out in a link to watch, or can be streamed via a Google Meet by the Champion. Below are some questions we would like you to ask your students before and after viewing the Introduction Video. Before viewing: What do you know about STEPS in our community? How and why did it all begin? [...]

Asset Building Ideas for Grandparents Being a grandparent means different things to different people. Many children in the United States are being raised by their grandparents or spend a great deal of time with them. Other grandparents live in different states or countries than their grandchildren and rarely see them. Whether you see your grandchildren daily or just once in a while, you can do many things to help nurture their assets. These assets form the foundation young people need to make healthy choices and succeed in life. The more assets your grandkids have, the stronger this foundation will [...]

Asset-Building Ideas for Parents and Guardians Being a parent or guardian can be very hard work—no surprise there, right? Most parents and guardians have things they love about their role as well as problems with their kids that they have to deal with. What might be surprising, though, is that one of the best ways to deal with problems is to focus on positives. Research shows that a more effective approach to raising healthy, competent kids is to concentrate on building Developmental Assets. These assets form the foundation young people need to make healthy choices and to succeed in [...]

Asset Building Classrooms (ABC) STEPS builds a better tomorrow for Southington by empowering youth with resilience, tolerance, acceptance, and much more Our work to help youth live their best lives spans our entire community. STEPS invests in a pioneering, in-depth program called Asset Building Classrooms (ABC). It is a partnership between STEPS and Southington Public Schools. The focus of ABC is to develop healthy and successful youth who live with intention and purpose. The program follows the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Asset Model. Developmental assets are positive building blocks that [...]

Businesses Everyone plays a role to prevent substance use. Your business can support our work. STEPS is proud to partner with businesses and organizations in the Southington community. If you own or work for a local business, your support for STEPS has a direct, positive impact on the youth in our community. Send a message that our programs are important to Southington. There are many ways that businesses can get involved in our coalition and become a partner in prevention. Make a donation and sponsor a prevention campaign Host a social [...]

Underage Alcohol Use Many normal life activities have ages when young people can safely start them. A person must wait until age 16 to start driving, age 18 to marry without parental consent, age 35 to become president, and so on. The drinking age is 21 for a reason - it is based on research, which shows that young people react differently to alcohol. Laws that prevent underage drinking help protect the maturing brains of young people. Although these laws exist, our cultural and social norms give different messages. Alcohol is one of the most commonly [...]

We Bring Southington Together to Build Assets and Prevent Substance Misuse Get Involved Prevention Our Mission STEPS makes prevention a priority in our community through education, limiting access, and advocacy for policy change. Our prevention work focuses on underage drinking, tobacco/vaping, cannabis/marijuana use, prescription drug misuse, and more. We believe that positive youth development is an essential building block to create generations of youth that are caring, competent, successful, and substance free. Our Focus on Youth STEPS was founded in 2007 with a mission [...]