The Botvin LifeSkills Training (Botvin) program, fosters youth development by teaching personal coping skills, general social skills, and skills for resisting pressures to smoke, drink, use drugs, and engage in other risky behaviors. Through the Botvin program, students learn not only how to resist pressures to smoke, drink, and use drugs, they also learn important life skills such as how to make informed decisions and solve problems, how to manage stress and anxiety, and how to communicate clearly. The combination of drug resistance skills and life skills has proven to be a powerful formula for preventing drug use and even violence.
Community Stakeholders:
1889 Foundation
Cambria County Drug Coalition
Cambria County Drug & Alcohol Unit
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD)
Somerset County Drug-Free Communities
UPMC Somerset Hospital
University of Colorado
United Way of the Laurel Highlands
Twin Lakes Center
Partner Agencies:
ACRP
The Learning Lamp
Twin Lakes Center
School Districts: (Cambria)
Blacklick Valley
Cambria Heights
Central Cambria
Conemaugh Valley
Ferndale Area
Forest Hills
Glendale
Greater Johnstown
Northern Cambria
Penn Cambria
Portage Area
Richland
Westmont Hilltop
School Districts: (Somerset)
Berlin Brothersvalley
Conemaugh Township
Meyersdale
North Star
Rockwood
Salisbury
Shade
Shanksville
Somerset Area
Turkeyfoot Valley
Windber