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PROGRAMS - INITIATIVES
TRAINING

Programs: Comprehensive, long-term endeavors aimed at achieving strategic organizational goals.

 

Initiatives: Specific, time-bound projects with a narrower focus. Broader and long-term efforts that aim to achieve a specific goal or vision.

 

Training: The process of teaching or developing skills, knowledge, or fitness to improve performance, productivity, and capability.

Programs

Bridge

Bridge Program is an after school program designed using a multi-faceted approach to working with the youth of Franklin County. At Bridge, we work with children by teaching life skills, provide team building activities, art, physical activities, social skills, emotional management, service learning projects, and much more. We use a curriculum called Positive Action; this curriculum teaches that positive actions create a positive self-concept, causes you to think positively, and makes you desire to do more positive actions.
Bridge teaches that when you do good, you feel good. 

Bridge

MRT (Moral Reconation  Therapy Program)

MRT is a cognitive-behavioral treatment system that leads to enhanced moral reasoning, better decision making, and more appropriate behavior. 

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Contact us for more information!

MRT

TN Thrive  Camp

Tennessee Camp Thrive in Franklin County is for children ages 7 to 17 to participate in our year long day camp. This camp will provide different social activities, leadership lessons, self confidence building skills, and learning opportunities.

TN Thrive Camp
Fists in Solidarity

Initiatives

Drug Endangered Children 

The Tennessee Alliance for Drug Endangered Children approach is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the formation of community-based partnerships to engage professionals from multiple disciplines in developing a collaborative approach to rescue, defend, shelter and support children from living in drug environments.

Drug Endangered Children

Teens Making a New Tomorrow

Teens Making a New Tomorrow is an elite group of teens that aim to reduce substance abuse in the youth of Franklin County. By holding events, engaging with community leaders, and working alongside the Franklin County Prevention Coalition, they promote non-usage and positive actions.

TMNT

Project Lifeline

Lifeline was created to reduce the stigma that is attached to people with addiction, and helping to defer individuals from incarceration to treatment and supporting those throughout recovery services. 

Project Lifeline

TN Save  A Life 

Regional Overdose Prevention Specialists (ROPS) are available for training and education on opioid overdose and for overdose prevention through the distribution of naloxone. If you would like to be trained on how to Save A Live, 

contact Dustin @ 931-308-3535.

TN Save A Life

Additional Training

FAMILY          -          WORKPLACE          -          RETAIL

Additional Training
  • Youth Leadership Training- We offer a 7 week life skills training course to Middle and High School Students. We would love to share this resource in your school. Contact us today to see how. 

  • Hidden in Plain Sight Demonstration- This is an interactive exhibit, resembling a teen's bedroom with more than 30 items that could indicate dangerous or risky behavior related to alcohol and drug misuse. Fore more information or to schedule this display/presentation contact us at 931-800-9112. 

  • Top Shelf - Off Premise Training- Off Premise teaches your staff how to recognize when a customer is intoxicated or underage. In addition to preventing the illegal sale of alcohol, store employees learn how to handle intoxicated customers and keep them from harming themselves and others. The intervention techniques reflect the short period of time a clerk has to interact with a customer. For more information or to register contact: Jessie Sheehan, Certified Trainer jessie.sheehan@fcstn.net or Melanie Morrow, Certified Trainer melanie.morrow@fcstn.net   (931) 800-9112  

  • Retailer Tobacco Education- Retailers play a critical role in protecting public health and creating powerful changes leading to a healthier future for all families. To help retailers better understand their responsibilities under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) and comply with the law, we can provide you with resources and information to recognize underage buyers and how to safely sell tobacco products. We will include store signage and id calendars for your clerks. Contact us to set up an appointment. 

  • Responsible Beverage Service Training- TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures) is the global leader in education and training for the responsible service, sale and consumption of alcohol. We offer off premise training classes for retailers who sell alcohol. These trainings are held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 9am-12pm. Please contact us to sign up. Learn more HERE. 931-800-9112. 

  • Drug-Free Workplace Training- Drug-Free workplace programs can help employers create safe, cost-effective, and healthy workplaces. We offer a training on how to have a drug free environment with tips and strategies to help you create that in your workplace. For more information give us a call! 931-800-9112

  • Aspire Nicotine Prevention Classes- Designed to help high school students choose a tobacco-free lifestyle, this self-paced online multi-media program uses five learning modules to promote smoking prevention among non-smokers and smoking cessation among smokers. The study showed lower smoking initiation rates among non-smokers. Please contact us if you are interested in these classes at your school or location.  

  • In-Depth Nicotine Education Classes- (Saturday School) A forward-thinking alternative to suspension or citation for tobacco use, including e-cigarettes, INDEPTH addresses the teen vaping epidemic in a  more supportive way. This interactive program teaches students about nicotine dependance, establishing healthy alternatives and making the change to be free of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. 

  • NOT ON TOBACCO Cessation- Not on Tobacco is a smoking cessation class. Unlike other cessation programs which simply modify adult curriculum, N-O-T was designed with teenagers in mind and addresses issues that are specifically important to them. The program takes a holistic approach with each session using different interactive learning strategies based on Social Cognitive Theory of behavior change that can then be applied and practiced in every day life and encourages a voluntary change for youth ages 14 to 19. This is an online class that can be done at your pace and found by clicking HERE

  • Fentanyl & Stimulant Training- We offer educational trainings on the dangers of fentanyl and stimulants. To schedule a training, contact us at 931-800-9112.

For more information on additional training,
submit the contact form below and we will be in touch. 

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