RISKY BUSINESS: SKILLS FOR LIFE
RISKY BUSINESS: Building Students’ Decision-Making Skills for Life
A developmental program proven to help adolescents make the right choices and reduce school risk.
ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL - HIGH SCHOOL - COLLEGE
What Happens When Students Make the Wrong Decisions?
• 1/3rd of teen traffic accidents involve alcohol or another substance.
• 160,000 + kids stay home each day to avoid being bullied.
• 60% of teens prescription drugs abusers get them free from friends and relatives.
• 39% of all teenagers have “sexted” sexually suggestive messages.
• 68% of 12th graders and 28% of 8th graders have tried alcohol.
• 52% of students have reported being cyber bullied.
Adolescence is students’ time of greatest vulnerability for risky behavior, aggressive acts and victimization. It also when schools are most at risk.
The RISKY BUSINESS is the only program of its kind proven to enhance students’ decision making skills, decrease aggression while simultaneously reducing risk.
Each level of the program focuses on students’ physical development while incorporating the psychological and neurological year-to-year changes that impact adolescent behavior.
• Refined over twenty years with documented positive outcomes in diverse school environments, RISKY BUSINESS’ innovative methodology to adolescent risk management spans four comprehensive social emotional training programs: Elementary, Middle School, High School, and College.
• Using a “scaffolding” methodology, students become less vulnerable to peer pressure, protecting them from serious risk-taking.
• A complementary program for parents, teachers and counsellors parallels each age level and teaches educators and caregivers to reinforce and support student safety.
Risky Business
Building Students’ Decision-Making Skills for Life.
• Proven to enhance decision-making skills, reduce aggression and manage risk
• Evidence based with normative results
• Easy, quick, web based program
• Can be administered to an entire school student body simultaneously
• Individual pre / post feedback for each student
• Risk & Resilience Report for each school
WHAT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT RISKY BUSINESS
“Through the RISKY BUSINESS program, and the relationships that staff have built with the students through implementing the program since 2007, we have created a strong culture of positive communication and rapport between students and staff.” Joseph Waldron, Skinner Middle School, Denver, CO
“Since launching the RISKY BUSINESS program in Pacific Beach Middle Schools in 2003, it has supported students in working together to improve their social skills and make their school community a respectful place. I whole heartedly endorse this program and encourage other schools to implement this evidence-based prevention program.” Paulette Blankenbeckler, Counselor, Thurgood Marshall Middle School, San Diego, CA
For a FREE WHITE PAPER about the Challenges of Adolescent Decision Making and the RISKY BUSINESS Developmental Program CLICK HERE.