What:
Positive Action provides a solid foundation for primary, middle, and secondary education and the years beyond by teaching students that positive actions make life meaningful. By recognizing and practicing positive thoughts, actions, and feelings, students prepare to be positive and contributing members of society. Objectives are accomplished through a comprehensive system including K–12 Instruction Curriculum, Climate Development Kits, and Drug Education. Each kit contains an Instructor’s Manual with scripted lessons and age-appropriate activities plus prepared materials such as posters, music, puppets, games, music, stickers, activity sheets or booklets, plays, and other items.
Who:
Public schools, private schools, charter schools, and alternative schools implement the program.Social workers, prevention providers, program directors, and others also can use it in after-school and community settings.
Elementary Schools
- Academic achievement improved by up to 75%
- Absenteeism reduced by up to 45%
- Truancy reduced by up to 13%
- Suspensions reduced by up to 80%
- Violence reduced by up to 85%
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use reduced by up to 71%
- General discipline reduced by up to 90%
- Criminal bookings reduced by up to 94%
- Self-concept improved by up to 43%
Middle Schools
- 70% fewer incidents of substance use
- 18% more students above average on Grade 8 NRT reading/math
- 70% fewer violence-related incidents
High Schools
- 50% less violence
- Up to 15% improved achievement test scores
- 49% fewer incidents of drug, alcohol, and tobacco us
Why: 
The evidence-based Positive Action program aligns with your state’s academic standards. It does so by offering creative lesson plans that integrate intellectual growth with personal and civic values. Positive Action lessons actually help students learn academic subjects by providing them with a solid foundation of learning skills. Our
studies show that Positive Action gets results (see the statistics at right).
Where:
Thanks to Positive Action’s flexible design, any combination of kits may be used in schools or countless other settings. Institutions can choose to implement the program in homerooms or advisory periods, or in content areas such as health, social studies, math, P.E., drama, science, or English. The program even can be taught as an entire class, such as life skills. All kits are appropriate for after-school programs, alternative schools, small support groups, or community agencies.
When:
Right now is the best time to start Positive Action. Because the program is flexible and can be implemented in a variety of ways, teaching Positive Action concepts is appropriate at any time.
How:
We provide fully functional, complete kits that deliver a wide array of materials, curriculum and inspiration to teach the program. They offer a variety of strategies and methodologies to keep students and teachers interacting and interested. Staff training is available through a Positive Action trainer, Training of Trainers,
or a self-training kit. If there is not time for every lesson in the unit, teachers can choose the lessons most relevant for their classrooms. The time commitment for elementary and middle schools totals about one hour per week. High schools choose how to implement the lessons, which are 15–20 minutes each.
Contact us at 800-345-2974 or use our contact form and we’ll design a program just for you.
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 PA is an Evidence-Based Program.
View the Recognized-by List.
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Before- and After-School
Title I
Does it All
Close the Gap
Violence and Bullying Prevention
Elementary Climate Kit
Middle School Drug Kit
High School Kit II
Counselor Kit
Family Classes
Conflict Resolution Kit
Read the Channing Bete Company™ Communities That Care® Prevention Strategies Guide review and summary of Positive Action®
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