Schools

The Transformers Program is targeted at primary school children and aims to: 

• Provide support, drug education and harm minimisation strategies;
• Raise awareness in participants of the effects of excessive drug and alcohol use on individuals and families;
• Teach self-protective behaviour and resilience;
• Help to identify coping strategies both positive and negative already being employed and help to formulate more effective strategies where needed;
• Raise self-confidence and self-esteem through participation and interaction in the group setting;
• Demonstrate and teaching effective assertive communication and encourage participants to use this form of communication in place of passive or aggressive behaviour;
• Introduce effective emotional management primarily for anger and anxiety;
• Raise awareness that individual needs are important and how to get those needs met in the context of the family;
• Introduce the notion of boundaries and the separation of responsibilities into what the participant can control and what they cannot; and
• Offer individual counselling to address specific issues identified in participants.

 This program is available through the South Metro Community Drug Service in Mandurah.