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The Brooklyn Diocese Drug Abuse Prevention
Program, also called the Program for
the Development of Human Potential
(PDHP), is the substance abuse prevention program for
the Catholic schools and parishes in Brooklyn and Queens. It began in
the mid-1970s working with high school students. In 1980, the program expanded
its "universal" prevention services to the elementary schools.
The program provides educational services,
short-term individual and group counseling, assessments and crisis counseling in
the schools. At our field offices in Brooklyn and Queens, we offer family
therapy services at a sliding scale fee.
For more information
about any of these programs, please contact one
of our offices.
Parents and Family
Programs:
Education and Informational
Services
-Assemblies
-Home-school association
presentations
Group Services
-Training in facilitation skills for parents
-Supervision and
in-service training for parent facilitators
-Support groups for parents
providing mutual support and resources
-Parent-teen nights
-Family fun
nights
-High school orientation for parents and students
Community Programs:
General
Services
-Consultation to communities interested in providing prevention
services in their neighborhoods
-Family counseling to those within the parish
communities
-Collaboration with other drug prevention
agencies within the communities
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How you
can help
PDHP, the Brooklyn Diocese Drug Prevention Program, is
funded by New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, and
you can help by contacting your Senator or Assemblyperson in Albany
or at his/her district offices. Ask for increased funding to school-based
drug abuse prevention programs.
Donations directly to the program are also gratefully
accepted.
Our Address:
85-18 61 Road
Rego Park, N.Y.
11374
Telephone
(718) 565-2200
Fax: (718) 565-9437
E-mail
us
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Schools Programs:
Educational and Informational
Services
-Research and science-based curricula
series
-Assembly programs
-Faculty in-service trainings on substance abuse
and related topics
Group Services
Trains teachers to facilitate after-school
discussion groups for middle and high school students. This program
includes:
-Thirty-hour intensive training for teachers in group facilitation
skills
-Supervision of the trained teacher-facilitators
-Payment of a
stipend to teachers
-Ongoing in-service education to
teacher-facilitators
Counseling
Services
-Assessments for referrals to PDHP or to
outside community mental health services
-Crisis intervention services for
individuals, families, schools and faculties
-On-site individual and group
counseling services in selected schools
-ReConnecting Youth Program for high
school students in danger of failing academically or alienated from school,
peers, and family
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