Passaic County Council 
Employee Assistance Program

The Employee Assistance Program is designed to help employees and their families manage problems that have a negative impact on job performance. Businesses contracting for this fee for service, employee healthcare benefit, help their employees identify and resolve substance abuse and other problems.

Your EAP representative can help you decide what might be best for you and/or your family. Getting started is as simple as calling 973-473-3366. We can arrange a convenient and confidential assessment, which will assist you in clarifying the problem with an appropriate course of action or treatment. 
You can contact us via e-mail at: ncadd@passaiccountycouncil.org

Footprints for Life is a research-based primary prevention program that builds assets and teaches important life skills to students in grades two and three. Through the use of puppets and stories that feature “real life” situations experienced by a children’s soccer team, the program offers many opportunities for students to practice the new skills they have learned in a fun and non-threatening way.

The goal of Footprints for Life is to help young children build a strong foundation of life skills rooted in key social competencies. The social competencies that Footprints addresses are planning and decision-making practice, interpersonal skills, cultural competence, peer pressure, and peaceful conflict resolution — assets identified as promoting positive attitudes and behaviors.

Footprints for Life is a six-week program taught during a regular classroom period for approximately 40 minutes each week. Weekly homework assignments and educational sheets not only reinforce the lessons between classes, but also involve parents in their child’s learning experience.

• Program overview and story outline
• Introduction
  • Lesson #1 - Feelings and Learning "I" Messages
  • Lesson#2 - Conflict resolution using the Solution StopLight
  • Lesson#3 - Decision-making (peer pressure and consequences)
  • Lesson#4 - Tobacco, Alcohol, and Medications (RX and OTC)
  • Lesson#5 - Coping Skills
  • Lesson#6 - Remembering what we learned and sharing it with Amir

Footprints for Life reaches children while their health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are at a formative stage; provides a resource for teachers to help identify potential problems; and opens the door for parents to have important discussions with their children at home.

Comments From Teachers About Footprints

• "I think this has been an excellent program for my class. I will continue to use all the strategies with my class and encourage them to use them as well."
• "The Solution Stoplight, win/win, and "I" messages have provided a great resource for me as a teacher when incidences occur."
• "I encourage the children to use "I" messages and verbally express their feelings. This program has really helped the children utilize these strategies."
• My students totally enjoyed the program, but the carryover and application came from me. They still need to be reminded about win/win solutions and "I" messages."

For additional information, please call us at 973-473-3366 or write us at ncadd@passaiccountycouncil.org 

"Forest Friends" is a developmental puppet program designed for kindergarten and first grade children, helping them learn about and deal with feelings, developing honesty, and showing respect for all. 

The program reaches children while their health-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviors are in the formative stage. The objectives are to help young children develop a desire for healthy living and to equip children with affirmative living skills that will enable them to grow up resilient to the pitfalls of alcoholism and drug abuse.

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Healthy Options Prevention Education

HOPE was created to help older adults make healthy decisions regarding changes in lifestyles, isolation, issues around loss and self esteem.   

A six-session Wellness Program is offered to older adults identified at risk for alcohol, medication and other drug misuse/abuse and is designed to help them recognize and lower high-risk behaviors.

R.E.B.E.L.: Reaching Everyone by Exposing Lies

Is a grassroots anti-tobacco movement developed by and for New Jersey teens to reduce and prevent the spread of tobacco use through positive peer-to-peer pressure and community action.

Why are we here?

• 10,700 New Jersey kids under 18 become new daily smokers each year.
• 398,000 New Jersey youth are exposed to second-hand smoke at home.
• 15.1 million packs of cigarettes are bought or smoked by New Jersey youth each year.
• Big Tobacco spends an estimated $231.2 million on marketing and advertising in New Jersey.
• Smoking is the largest preventable cause of death and more than 8 out of 10 smokers started at or before the age of 18.
• Medical and economic costs of second hand smoke totaled about $6 billion annually (worldwide) in 2004 (American Academy of Actuaries).
• Approximately 15.8 percent of New Jersey high school students are current smokers (2006 New Jersey Youth Tobacco Survey)

For years, Big Tobacco has manipulated the young people of America through teen directed advertising. R.E.B.E.L. teens are fighting back against the manipulation of Big Tobacco by declaring their independence. 
New Jersey Teens Tell Big Tobacco "We are...

                                       

Students are chosen to attend the annual R.E.B.E.L. Tobacco Learning Institute in the fall. They return to their schools where the R.E.B.E.L. teens work with an adult youth coordinator and school advisor to develop and implement local action plans to combat tobacco use and create smoke-free environments in their community.

 R.E.B.E.L. teens participate in various anti-tobacco activities on Kick Butts Day, an annual youth oriented tobacco awareness day sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Information on Kick Butts Day can be found at: www.kickbuttsday.org 


                                  

R.E.B.E.L.2

Is the middle school component of R.E.B.E.L.. Eighth and ninth grade students get tobacco education training, then bring an interactive message of tobacco prevention to the elementary schools in their district.