Final Report for HSP 205 Winter Quarter 2004.
Name of Project: FAST (Families and Schools Together).
Class members in project: Meagan Hughes, Frank Morris, and .
Paulette Erickson.
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Our program, FAST, is a collaborative, school-based .
prevention program. The problem is that children who are .
at-risk and their families are distressed, isolated from the .
community and have a lack of social skills and support. Some .
of the risk factors include family conflict, family history of .
abuse, academic failure, and lack of commitment to school. .
These risk factors and more can lead to dropouts from school, .
substance abuse, delinquency, and violence. FAST is the .
solution to decrease risk factors and build protective factors .
such as, bonding, individual characteristics, healthy beliefs .
and clear standards, and to implement the forty developmental .
assets into their lives. FAST uses experimental curriculum, .
rather than lecture or information based curriculum. The .
entire curriculum is embedded in activities that build .
relationships between parent and child, family members, .
child's parents, FAST parents, school and community. Ten to .
20 families are recruited for the FAST program and sessions .
take place at the school. The program runs for ten weeks and .
FAST sessions are held three times a week for two and a half .
hours long. FAST sessions include several activities that are .
repeated weekly. They include the family flag, family hellos, .
family meal at a family table, age appropriate family .
