“PRIME FOR LIFE” ALCOHOL/DRUG EDUCATION  (PFL)

Renewing Waters offers Prime For Life, an evidence-based motivational prevention, intervention or pretreatment program specifically designed for people who might be making high-risk life choices. Prime For Life goals are to challenge and change beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, and motivations through increasing participant’s knowledge of the physical, mental, and social effects of alcohol/substance use and how to reduce their risk of alcohol and drug-related problems throughout their lives.

Because Prime For Life  includes both prevention and intervention content, it is also designed in a way that serves universal, selective, and indicated audiences with program delivery options for each.
 

Universal Audiences are those without any known increased risk factors who might only need the risk reduction information provided in the prevention component. Some examples of potential universal audiences are all incoming freshman at a university, or employees at a company that wants to provide preventative programming to its personnel. Though universal audiences typically receive prevention information, many can also benefit from participating in the intervention component.

Selective Audiences are those who might have signs of increased risk for developing problems such as youth with truancy issues or family members of individuals with substance use problems. Selective audiences will likely benefit from receiving both the prevention and intervention components in Prime For Life.
 

Indicated Audiences are those already making high-risk alcohol or drug choices and who might be exhibiting signs of problems. Such individuals benefit from a more intensive version of Prime For Life and might even participate in it as a pretreatment program. For example, many youth in juvenile justice facilities and DUI offenders across the U.S. often receive 12 to 20 hours of "therapeutic education" content such as Prime For Life.
 

Renewing Waters instructors are certified through the Prevention Research Institute to facilitate PRIME For Life’s curriculum. Through PRIME For Life, our goal is to assist people to identify and reduce high-risk choices related to alcohol/drug use.

Renewing Waters offers 8-hour, 12-hour, 16-hour and 20-hour Prime For Life education classes.

Contact us to schedule your next PRIME For Life class.