ADDICTION: THE PROBLEMS, THE SOLUTIONS
31 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using a series of interviews with young people, a medical expert and a clinical psychologist explores what addiction is, who is vulnerable, and what can be done.

ALCOHOL AND ATTITUDES: WHERE DO YOU STAND?
17 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Presents a series of thought-provoking scenarios on issues connected to teen alcohol use, then follows each up with questions designed to generate discussion and critical analysis of values and behavior

ALCOHOL: FACTS, MYTHS AND DECISIONS
22 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Drinking causes serious school, family, and social problems for millions of teenagers every year. Program counters myths about alcohol with facts to help viewers understand that alcohol's effect on their lives depends on the decisions they make about its use.

ANGER: YOU CAN HANDLE IT
24 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches teens specific techniques for handling anger. Points out that anger is a natural human emotion, helps students differentiate between normal feelings of anger and destructive angry behavior. Noting that different things make different people angry, shows viewers how to get back in control and deal with anger in safe, constructive ways.

CHOOSE TO LEAD (2 Tapes)
Tape One: 35 minutes
Tape Two: 35 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Choose To Lead is designed for all student leaders. Student government, class officers, peer helpers - all leaders who need help organizing and reaching other students will benefit from this series. Choose To Lead helps student leaders create a framework that will result in a school that feels better, recognizes a wider range of students, supports staff and involves a wider range of students in activities. Students who view the series get a better grasp of their impact and become energized with the methods shared.

COCAINE/CRACK: A TEENAGERS STORY
28 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using one teenage addicts dramatic story and interviews with two psychiatrists who specialize in treating addictive disorders, gives students an in-depth look at cocaine's alarming power to turn healthy people into addicts and wreck lives

COME SEE ABOUT MEDICINES
25 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Fills the gap in most drug prevention programs. Quickly draws viewers in with facts about the safe and unsafe uses of prescription, over-the-counter and herbal medicines, then shows them how to read labels and understand terms like side-effects, allergies, overdoses and interactions.

DIRTY BUSINESS
24 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

A compelling, hard-hitting attack on the tobacco industry. Featuring the award-winning antismoking media ads created and produced by media specialist Tony Schwartz. Program alerts students to the dangers and consequences of smoking and drives home a powerful antismoking message.

DRUGS, YOUR FRIENDS, AND YOU: HANDLING PEER PRESSURE
26 minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Peer pressure can be a powerful influence on the decision to use drugs or alcohol, and young people don't always realize they can continue to respect their own best interests and say no. Program makes students aware they do have choices, then teaches specific techniques for dealing assertively with pro-drug/alcohol pressures.

FETAL DEVELOPMENT: A Nine-Month Journey
15 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Skillfully blends fascinating in-utero fetoscopy with ultrasound images, anatomical drawings, and animation sequences to illustrate how a baby develops from conception to birth. Calling the nine-month journey "a miracle" and "a mystery we have accepted on faith," presents a sensitive but stunningly complete picture of fetal development.

FOR TEENS: THE GENTLE ART OF REFUSAL
18 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches the positive refusal skills that can help students say no in pressure-filled situations without being aggressive or losing a friendship. Presents a series of situations, then follows each up with a role-play showing viewers how to substitute constructive for destructive behavior. Provides responses that work.

GO FOR IT! NATURAL HIGHS30 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Interviews with young people who say yes to natural highs make viewers aware of the different kinds of natural highs that are within their grasp.

HOOKED? NOT ME!
41 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Dramatizes the stories of three substance-abusing teenagers to show students the stages through which a drug dependency develops.

I LIVE IN AN ALCOHOLIC FAMILY
35 minutes
Grade level: 9-12

Uses true-to-life stories to explore how three teenagers are helped to come to grips with the reality of having an alcoholic parent. Shows students in similar situations that as they learn to accept their parent's alcoholism as a disease that they didn't cause and can't control or cure, they will be better able to develop the inner strengths that enable them to get on with their own lives.

MARIJUANA AND YOUR MIND
31 minutes (filmstrips on video)
Grade level: 6-12

Focuses on the mental and emotional risks teenagers run when they use marijuana.

PEER PRESSURE, DRUGS...AND YOU
32 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches teens effective assertiveness strategies for resisting peer pressure to use drugs. Using role-plays close to teen experience, makes students aware that pressure from others need not compromise their values, that they have a right to do what's best for them.

REAL PEOPLE: MEET A TEENAGE DRUG ADDICT
24 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Documents Wendy's story to provide viewers with hard-hitting insights into drug addiction. Gives students the opportunity to view a fellow teenager's trouble life objectively, and perhaps reach some conclusions of their own.

STAYING IN SCHOOL: DROPOUT PREVENTION
22 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Uses a lively "Back-to-the Future" format detailing the poor job prospects and low pay dropouts can expect, to motivate students to keep their options open by staying in school. Calls education the key to a successful future.

STEROIDS: THE REAL STORY
28 minutes
Grade level: 7-14

Gives students a sobering look at the real hazards of anabolic steroids.

STUDENT WORKSHOP: MEDIATION: GETTING TO WIN-WIN!
24 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using as example a true-to-life teenage conflict, program demonstrates the techniques and strategies mediators use to help disputants work out their conflict and arrive at win-win solution.

STUDENT WORKSHOP: RESOLVING CONFLICTS
24 minutes
Grade level: 9-12

This workshop takes students step-by-step through the conflict resolution process. Students learn to apply specific, easy-to-learn skills and effective strategies for resolving conflicts peacefully.

TAKING CHANCES: TEENS AND RISK
27 minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps middle schoolers look at risk critically and understand its sources.

TEEN-PARENT CONFLICT: MAKING THINGS BETTER
30 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Helps teenagers understand the nature of teen-parent conflict and offers specific techniques for dealing with it. Shows students that the more they act like adults, the more their parents will treat them as adults. Deals with the key issue of trust, teaches the skills of negotiation as a technique for resolving conflict.

TEENAGERS, STRESS, AND HOW TO COPE
37 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Helps students understand what stress is and what they can do about it. Presents a three-step process that students can use to manage their lives more effectively.

TEENS AND ALCOHOL: THE HIDDEN PROBLEM
37 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teenagers tend to believe that drinking can't cause them any problems. What they may not realize is that alcohol can make them do things they would not do if they were sober. Using Jennifer's drinking party as a focal point, demonstrates how alcohol caused needless difficulties for three teenagers.

TRUTH ABOUT DRINKING (School Version)
30 minutes
Grades 6-12

Teens see the potential consequences of alcohol use, including how drinking impairs a person's coordination and how a drunk person really drives.

TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS (School Version)
30 minutes
Grade 6-12

The Teen Files: The Truth About Drugs explores the lives of several young people who have been forever changed by drug use. It shows the immediate consequences of illegal drugs, and it illustrates in vivid detail how easily a life can be changed or destroyed after one drug use. The effects of heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and other drugs are discussed, as well as techniques for turning away from risky drug-related situations.

TRUTH ABOUT MARIJUANA (THE)
20 minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Dramatizes how the choice to use drugs affects a young person's social and emotional life. Helps students recognize other alternatives for solving problems, presents facts that can help them make the right choice.

WHEN ANGER TURNS TO RAGE
27 minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Anger often gives rise to a fury that middle schoolers can neither understand nor control. Program helps young teens understand this natural but troubling emotion and demonstrates ways to deal with angry feelings. Teaches the anger-management skills that can lead to better relationships between students and a more peaceful learning environment.

WHEN THERE'S TROUBLE AT HOME
34 minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students whose lives are disrupted by trouble at home see that despite a bad situation, they can still make their lives work by identifying and acknowledging their feelings. Makes them aware that others have similar problems. Illustrates constructive ways of coping and suggests options for action and sources of help.

YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT
27minutes
Grade level: 7-12

How can you build developmental assets in your school community? This video will let you see and hear for yourself how schools around the country have done it. Devloped by award-winning director David Culp and produced by Search Institute, this video is both inspiring and instructive. Teachers, students, principals, and other school community members provide firsthand accounts of how they are building assets and offer suggestions for how anyone can do it.