Reconnecting Youth

The DRAGON Youth Project uses the science-based curriculum, Reconnecting Youth, A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills, as a resource and tool to provide effective prevention activities.  The program contains all components of a life skills curriculum, including sections devoted to alcohol and drug-free living.  It is a peer group approach to building skills for high-risk students.  The program is designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors that are linked with adolescent problem behaviors in general, and adolescent drug involvement specifically.  The DRAGON Youth Project incorporates the Reconnecting Youth curriculum using artistic and creative avenues to engage youth to participate in prevention presentations and activities.  We currently offer Reconnecting Youth classes at the Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center, as well as Bayfield High School.