Workshops and Assemblies
FCD offers a wide range of presentations for:
- Students
- Parents
- Faculty
- School administrators
- Guidance and health counselors
- Dorm proctors and residential advisors
- Coaches, team captains, and athletes
- Student councils and peer support groups
- Intervention teams and prevention advisory committees
- Trustees and school boards.
Our workshops and assemblies are available as part of the Four-Day Course, as half- or full-day seminars, or as custom programs tailored to suit the needs and schedule of the individual school. The following topics are adaptable to virtually any audience or format.
Marijuana: How Harmless is It?
Marijuana's reputation as a "soft" drug masks its potential for harm. This workshop covers such topics as the effects of marijuana on metabolism, hormones, memory and motivation, and also looks at the social, emotional and intellectual cost of marijuana use.
Choosing Not to Use
Society bombards kids with messages that portray drinking and smoking as essential to being successful, sexy and cool. This creates misperceptions that lead young people to overestimate the proportion of their peers and elders that use. This workshop explores the role of normative beliefs, media, and environment in shaping the nature and degree of student use of alcohol and other drugs.
Concerts, Clubs and Raves
A look at the drugs consumed in these environments and the hidden dangers associated with ecstasy and other "rave drugs."
Natural Highs
Encourages students to find creative, healthy, life-affirming ways to relax, "escape reality," or "get a rush."
When Alcohol Becomes a Problem
Explores the difference between experimentation, use, dependency, and addiction, and shows how to recognize the warning signs of problem use.
Helping A Friend
This workshop provides insights and strategies teens can use to recognize problem use, intervene, and guide friends or siblings towards help and support.
Stressed Out
Tips and techniques for dealing with the stress that can cause teens to turn to alcohol and other drugs for "relief."
Alcohol and College
Information and tools to assist high school seniors in making the transition to college without placing their health, safety, or future at risk.
Heroin, Crack, and Cocaine
Hard facts about hard drugs.
The Progression of Addiction: One Person's Story
Insight from a trained health educator in recovery whose initial use of alcohol and other drugs was not unlike that of many young people—except it led to addiction, loss, and unimagined consequences.
Choices: How Using at a Young Age Can Affect You Later in Life
Examines alcohol and other drug use through the filter of choices young people make, and the consequences that may follow them for the rest of their lives.
"Study" Drugs:
Adderall, Caffeine, and Ritalin: the use and misuse of prescription and over-the counter drugs.
Dip and Chew
The use of smokeless tobacco is widespread in many schools, yet many students know very little about its risks. This workshop provides facts and context for making an informed decision about using this form of nicotine.
Relationships and Substances
The use of alcohol and other drugs affects virtually all of a teen's relationships: to parents, siblings, and friends; school, work, and play; mind, mood, and body; conscience, confidence, and integrity; to how they perceive their past and their future, and to their emotional, intellectual, and spiritual lives. This construct offers a provocative entry point for discussing the impact of use on the growing adolescent.
Gender and Alcohol
For mixed or single-sex audiences, how alcohol affects men and women differently; how males and females diverge in their views on drinking and drunkenness; how societal attitudes toward drinking change based on the gender of the drinker.
Growing Up with Alcoholism
An estimated one-in-four children grow up in homes affected by alcoholism or other drug addictions. This workshop looks at ways in which substance abuse affects families, and offers participants practical and emotional survival tips.
Party Scenes
When young people "party" with alcohol and other drugs, the results can be catastrophic: accidents, fights, unsafe sex, and the loss of judgment that leads to poor decision making. Why is partying synonymous with drinking? And why do teens drink to get drunk?
The Ripple Effect
Explores the pain, burden, and unpleasantness drinking or drug use can create for others. Examines concepts such as denial and enabling.
Coaches, Captains, and Athletes
Coaches and athletes have a special place in the school hierarchy as leaders and role models. This workshop focuses on communication skills, team building, and the positive influence coaches, captains, and athletes can exert on drug use attitudes and behaviors in the school community.
Sports, Steroids, and Other Drugs
Can drugs make you play better? How does drinking affect sports performance? An examination of the effects of a wide range of substances on athletic performance with a special focus on steroids, which are being used in greater and greater numbers by non-athletes in search of the "ideal" body.
Intervention A to Z
Designed for dorm proctors and residential advisors, ways to recognize and intervene on student alcohol and other drug use before it becomes a discipline problem.
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