Nonstop P.A.R.T.Y.
The NonStop P.A.R.T.Y. initiative is a new program developed in response to needs expressed by teachers to ensure that the attitudes and behaviours learned over the regular P.A.R.T.Y. programming are reinforced and integrated into each student's real life for the long-term.
Non-Stop P.A.R.T.Y.: How We Keep the P.A.R.T.Y. Going
It is important that students have the opportunity to actualize what they have learned during the 3-day program and to have it reinforced over the long-term within their own lives and community. We work toward this goal through several ongoing and developing initiatives, including the NonStop P.A.R.T.Y. initiative. Our logic model in this initiative is that lacking adequate opportunities and social skills is a weighty burden that can tip the balance toward drug and alcohol use and other negative high risk behaviours, whereas having those opportunities and social skills, in contrast, can tip the balance toward healthy choices and a resilient community.
Working with teachers, students, parents, and key community stakeholders, Nonstop P.A.R.T.Y. offers students the opportunity to practice skills for healthy partying including relationship-building and refusal skills, and encourages those who are interested to lead and plan activities and events that incorporate the core principles of "Buckle Up, Wear the Gear, Get Trained, Drive Sober, Look First, and Seek Help".