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.