Watch the Shattered Dreams 2010 video

See the hardback
Shattered Dreams 2010 Scrapbook at:
DrugFree Greenville
GHS Library
GCSLibrary
W. Walworth
Harrison Library

Don't miss the 25th Annual DrugFree Greenville Walkathon May 4!

The Story of Medication Mike

Be "In the Know" - Because what you don't know CAN hurt you!

The mission of DrugFree Greenville is to increase awareness of substance abuse; to encourage an environment that will not tolerate a diminished quality of life due to substance abuse; and to serve as a catalyst for community partnerships working toward this end.

To accomplish our goals, DrugFree Greenville relies on the support and participation of people like YOU. How YOUR support helps DrugFree Greenville.

Learn how DrugFree Greenville got started - and continues to work for prevention.

Follow us on Facebook

Current programs include:

• Interagency Network - links 50 local health & service agencies for information exchange, service needs identification, referral encouragement. The Network produces the Hunt County Community Chest Card, a resource referral guide for the community.
  
  (2012 Community Chest Card pdf version - you will need Acrobat Reader to view this file.) Download it free      
  
  
• GHS PALS (Peer Assistance Leaders) youth development program - provides volunteer mentoring for younger students, cooperates with SADD and GHS student government in prevention programs
  
  
• GCS SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) - student membership organization that develops substance abuse awareness, provides training and leadership development, sponsors prevention activities, encourages volunteerism & mentoring
  
  
• Parent Power - parent education program conducted in cooperation with Region 10 Education Service Center designed to develop/enhance parenting skills to foster healthy families able to resist substance abuse

• Heroes Program - First responder appreciation program designed to educate and develop a positive relationship between law enforcement, firefighters and EMS personnel.

Heroes Night 2013 Photos



• Business & Industry programs - resource and referral services and information for local businesses
  
  
• Eye Out for DWI - partnership with TABC, MADD, and Hunt Co. law enforcement agencies to decrease fatalities and injuries due to DWI
  
  
• Red Ribbon - month-long awareness campaign involving all sectors of the community in comprehensive grassroots alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse prevention activities.

  
  Red Ribbon 2012
  
  

• Walkathon - community awareness event with participants representing all ages and demographic groups in a health-promoting, substance-free activity
  
  Don't miss the 2013 Walk on May 4! It's our 25th Annual Walk!
  
  • Market Square, Downtown Greenville
    Registration begins at 8 a.m.
    
    
    
  • Play Walkopoly with us!
    Help fund programs working toward a drug free Greenville. information
    
    
• Prevention Baseball - teaches Greenville Intermediate School students about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use through a competition between classrooms based on questions/answers. "Baseball" games are preceded by intensive classroom instruction.
  
  
• Kite Fly - substance free fun that partners community volunteers with Greenville Intermediate School, Greenville Christian School, Phoenix School students in flying student-created kites with prevention messages.
  
  
• You are invited to cheer for the great kids who will discover "the sky's the limit" when you're drug free!
  
  
• Shattered Dreams - A 3-day drinking/drugging & driving prevention immersion learning experience for high school students held every 4 years. February 16-18, 2010
  
  Shattered Dreams includes:
  • Mock DWI car crash
  • "Living Dead" announcements over the school PA every 15 minutes to represent the individuals killed by drunk/drugged drivers every 15 minutes
  • Law enforcement parent death notifications
  • Obituaries for the students "killed"
  • Overnight retreat for participants
  • Memorial assembly
  • Mock trial
    
    
• School Assemblies - provides presentations by prevention-oriented groups including StraightWay, Carlos Cruz, Keith Davis, MADD, Look Before You Leap, Primary Focus and other age-appropriate programs
  
  
• Prevention Library - makes videos, books, and other materials on prevention of tobacco, alcohol, drug use available free of charge to individuals, groups, businesses, schools, and churches
  
  
• Public Education - raises awareness and involvement in Drug Free Greenville activities and increases understanding of community grassroots prevention through advertising, newspaper column, news stories, flyers, posters, and brochures

Follow us on Facebook

Tweet this page

HOME

History    Support    News Articles    Walkathon    Walkopoly