Give-a-Book assembly Program

Home Run Against Drugs Give-a-Book Assembly Program helps to build and reinforce resiliency skills for substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion in children in 3rd and 4th grade.

The program also seeks to develop social-emotional skills such as self-control, problem-solving, and healthy decision-making.  

The students receive a 45-minute introduction to the Home Run Against Drugs Message. There is active role-playing pertaining to goal setting and more with the format being largely interactive for the students. The introduction of “Homer” is certainly the highlight of the event, allowing children to see and meet Homer. Each student receives a personalized book at the end of the assembly.

A follow up 6 week curriculum has been developed to allow further reinforcement of the principles learned while in the assembly. Each child will receive an activity/workbook and the facilitator will teach the modules pertaining to each curriculum strand. With the curriculum, a model of a baseball diamond is used and each child will receive a sticker to place on the diamond to display their progress towards their goal of reaching home plate and hitting a Home Run!  Each module completion takes him or her step by step from being “on deck” to reaching each base and home plate safely.

At the completion of the program, each child receives a certificate of accomplishment and membership into the S.T.R.I.K.E. Force.