Substance Abuse Awareness Program (SAAP)

• Assists schools as they address drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among students as per the CCSD Code of Conduct.
• Parents are required to participate so that a collaborative approach may be implemented when combating the causes of substance use.
• Drug, alcohol, and tobacco use are recognized as complex human behaviors with patterns that vary and are influenced by many forces (i.e., individual, family, school, peer groups, media).
• The program for students and parents is designed to provide educational awareness on signed and symptoms of substance use and provide community resources.
• Surveys by students and parents who have completed the program indicate a very positive reaction as to the value of the program in improving communication between parent and child. They share having a better understanding of how alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use impacts learning.

Program Objectives

• Create family awareness of substance use as a social problem.
• Deal constructively with substance use in an educational setting.
• Deter further experimentation with drugs/alcohol/tobacco.
• Improve communication between the student and parents
• Impress upon students that substance use has an adverse impact on their development..

Sessions 

Communication & Parent Involvement 

• Discuss issues, feelings, and ideas about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
• Protective and risk factors
• Improving parent involvement to help decrease risky behaviors. 
• Build trust and communication skills between parent and child

Signs, Symptoms, Facts, & Community Resources 

• Signs and symptoms of use
• Warning signs
• Research and the brain
• Decision making, problem solving, peer pressure, and refusal skills
• Clark County and Nevada Laws

School Board Policy Requiring Student Attendance of the Substance Abuse Awareness Program

CCSD Regulation 5141.1

http://ccsd.net/district/policies-regulations/pdf/5141.1_R.pdf

Any student who is found to have possessed, used, sold, or to have in anyway encouraged the possession, use, sale by another of any controlled substance including narcotic drugs, prescription or over the counter drugs (except in accordance with Regulation 5150-Health and Welfare), drug paraphernalia or alcoholic beverages or any represented to be drug paraphernalia or alcoholic beverages must attend and complete the District's Substance Abuse Awareness Program with a parent or guardian.