Delaware high school students beginning their junior or senior year in the Fall 2023 are eligible to apply for the Governor’s Summer Fellowship. This prestigious flagship program is geared towards preparing Delaware students for innovative and compelling work in education, government, or their communities. With paid work opportunities at summer…

Botvin LifeSkills Training Middle School Program is a substance abuse and violence prevention program based on more than 35 years of rigorous scientific research. Proven to be the most effective evidence-based program used in schools today, the program is comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote mental health and positive…

Youth Participatory-Action Research (YPAR) is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development in which young people are trained to conduct systematic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them. YPAR is a cyclical process of learning and action – research is done…

Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) focuses on the youth in the program. Youth in the YES program work to change the community as a way to prevent youth violence. In YES, youth are part of the solution; they have power to make decisions about how to make their community more peaceful…

Live Respect Delaware this gender-specific, evidence-informed program is designed to decrease dating violence, sexual assault and bullying. The ultimate goals of the curriculum are to promote healthy, respectful manhood; decrease language/actions that degrade women, girls and other marginalized groups; challenge harmful cultural and social norms; and decrease instances of bullying…

Arise is an evidence-based prevention program that has operated for 25 years providing young men and women with the tools they need to survive, succeed, and become successful productive members of society. Arise educates and motivates young adults by equipping them with practical information they can use every single day…

Catch My Breath is a peer-led teaching approach that empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape. Informed by tobacco youth prevention researchers and practitioners, years of real world implementation, and a youth advisory board, it is the…