The Prevention Resource Center (PRC) has the largest collection of prevention educational materials in the state of Hawaii.  Over 5,000 resources including books, monographs, videos, periodicals, teacher kits, curriculums, newspaper clippings, media campaigns and products are available to the public.

Everyone is welcome to use the PRC lending library!  All we ask is for borrowers to fill out an agreement form to be kept on file, and to bring back materials on time.  The normal borrowing period is two weeks, however if materials are needed longer arrangements can be made. 

The PRC is happy to mail outer island residents our materials to borrow as well!  We will pay to mail it out, and we ask patrons to cover the costs of mailing it back.

Below is a small sample of BOOKS and VIDEOS the PRC has to offer.  For access to more resources please contact the PRC or come visit our library.

BOOKS

Many adults who are concerned about the drug problem among teenagers turn a blind eye when kids drink beer and other alcohol. Alcohol Is a Drug, Too exposes the myths adults use to rationalize drinking by adolescents and presents the facts about dangers both teenagers and communities face when teenage drinking goes on unchecked. Through research data and engaging vignettes, the author presents a wide scope of information about underage alcohol use and parental permissiveness. He then offers strategic solutions parents, schools, and communities can embrace and act upon to address underage drinking and its dangerous consequences.

Bullying has long been regarded as a way of life. Ever since Columbine, however, student reactions to harassment and intimidation are, finally, driving parents to consider this phenomenon seriously. And Words Can Hurt Forever teaches parents to accept reality (bullying occurs daily), challenge old beliefs (“Kids will be kids” or “If I lived through it, so can they”), and ally with other parents to take on the school system. Revelatory and ultimately uplifting, And Words Can Hurt Forever doesn’t just highlight the problem, but offers steps that can be taken – must be taken – to solve it.

History proves that violence is not a postmodern 20th century invention. Yet violence today feels different – more heartless, more senseless, and more random. Tragically, our schools are no longer the peaceful sanctuaries of times past. Aggression is as much a reality in the classroom as it is in society. In this book, the authors present a three-dimensional approach to handling hostility. This multidimensional approach has helped thousands of educators establish effective discipline practices in their classrooms. Even more important, it has helped thousands of students find alternatives to hurting themselves and others.

From the moment you’re born and someone says, “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” society sends you messages about how you should look, think, and act. What are these messages? Where do they come from? How do they affect you? Do you have to believe them? What is gender, anyway? Does life have to be a boys-against-girls kind of world? And what does it really mean to be a boy or a girl? This book invites you to explore the issues, examine the facts, and make up your own mind about gender.

Forget that your parents are supposed to be “bringing you up.” With the strategies, tips, and techniques in this book, you can bring them up to be everything you want them to be: parents who trust you, listen to you, respect your opinions, accept your feelings, and let you be yourself. Along the way, you’ll gain more privileges. You’ll have more to say in family decisions. And you’ll help to create a healthier, happier home environment for everyone.

The Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8

Every school day, students are teased, intimidated, harasses, and hurt by other students. Bullying is a big problem – and you can do something about it. This book shows you how. Inside, you’ll find more than 100 prevention and intervention strategies you can start using immediately. All are easy to understand and simple to implement; most require little or no advance preparation and few or no special materials.

Dr. Dave’s Cyberhood: Making Media Choices That Create A Healthy Electronic Environment For Your Kids

You may have read about the effects violent television show and video games can have on children, but you know the solution isn’t simply to unplug everything. The key for parents, says Dr. David Walsh, is to be informed and involved when choosing the electronic environments where kids play and learn. Dr. Dave’s Cyberhood helps parents take stock of the growing number of films, TV shows, video games, music, and websites that stream into their homes everyday.

Life Freaks Me Out And Then I Deal With It (Reassuring Secrets From A Former Teenager)

Inspired by the concerns of real teenagers, this thoughtful book addresses the turbulent, confusing, and exhilarating situations teens face every day. Candidly exploring truths gathered over the course of the author’s own teen years (and the years since), Life Freaks Me Out offers guidance on answering life’s big questions: Who am I? What Matters to me? What am I doing on this planet, anyway?

Safer Choices: Preventing HIV, Other STD And Pregnancy

Safer Choices is designed to prevent HIV, other STD and pregnancy among high school students. It uses a multiple-component approach to focus on schoolwide change and to influence the total school environment. (Other materials of this series that are available is: Implementation Manual, Level 1, Level 1 Student Workbook, Level 2, Level 2 Student Workbook, Peer Leader Training Guide, and Level 1 Peer Leader Workbook)

Saying No Is Not Enough: Helping Your Kids Make Wise Decisions About Alcohol, Tobacco, And Other Drugs

In this second addition the challenge is: how to raise children in a drug-filled society and prevent substance abuse. Saying “No” is not enough, Dr. Schwebel recommends that parents should have open communication with their children as well as staying alert to potential drug problems. New issues that you can find in this book is recommendations about parents discussing their own substance abuse and what to do about drug testing.

When A Friend Dies: A Book For Teens About Grieving & Healing

When A Friend Dies can help you to handle one of life’s most difficult realities: the death of a friend. No matter how your friend died, no matter what you are feeling right now – guilty, angry, depressed, withdrawn, or all of these emotions – this book can help you to cope with your loss and pain. Here you will find quotations from other teens whose friends have died, as well as ideas for grieving in healthy ways.

VIDEOS

Breaking The Cycle Of Addiction And Abuse: Donna’s Story

By the time Donna Gamble turned 13 she was a drug addict and a prostitute, just like her mother. Today, she is a fiercely determined survivor who has emerged as a powerful voice in counseling members of the Cree Nation and others about how to triumph over addiction. In this poignant yet inspiring program, Donna describes her struggle to start a new life while trying to help improve the lives of others traveling the path she once knew all too well. With courage and candor, she also reveals her ongoing effort to come to terms with the suppressed rage that still flows from her childhood memories of sexual abuse and physical violence. Contains explicit material. (VHS, 52 minutes, color)

 

From Depression To Discover, A Teenager’s Guidebook

 

Clinical depression and ignorance are a dangerous combination. Myths surrounding the disease – for example, the notion that it affects only adults – often prevent depressed young people from seeking help. This video shatters common misconceptions about depression, helping young viewers recognize its outward and internal symptoms. The latest forms of treatment are also explored. (DVD, 25 minutes)

 

Hooked: Illegal Drugs And How They Got That Way

 

Describes basically the history of various drugs illegal in the United States. Talks about the cycles of social and legal acceptance and rejection of various drugs as their positive effects were recognized, used and overused. Describes the mechanisms by which drugs are made illegal to use in the United States. (DVD, 200 minutes)

 

HIV in Hawai`i: Local People, Local Stories

 

As the cases of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) continue to rise globally and on the mainland, we must acknowledge that this virus also affects us here in Hawai`i. We are not immune to it. HIV does not discriminate between men, women, or children. And the numbers are increasing for young people. Through the personal stories of two local people affected by HIV, this 20-minute video emphasizes the importance of education and compassion as keys to prevention. (DVD, 20 minutes)

 

Intervention Television Series

 

Intervention is a powerful and gripping television series in which people confront their darkest demons and seek a route to redemption. The Intervention Television series profiles people whose dependence on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones. Each intervention episode ends with a surprise intervention that is staged by the family and friends of the alcohol or drug addict, which is conducted by one of four intervention specialists: Jeff VanVonderen, Candy Finningan, Ken Seeley and Tara Fields. Intervention raises awareness about the alternatives and treatment options available to those who suffer from an alcohol or drug addiction, and gives hope to families who have nowhere left to turn. (DVD series)

 

Reality Matters: Prescription For Trouble

 

Taking medicine is engrained in American culture. Is it any surprise then that adolescents are abusing prescription and over-the-counter drugs in record numbers? In this program, recovering teenage addicts come clean about which medications they abused, when and why they started, and how their addictions severely damaged their lives, while frontline experts from schools and the medical community-a substance abuse counselor, a child psychologist, and an adolescent psychiatrist, to name three-fill in the blanks about the effects of America’s medicine mindset. (VHS, 26 minutes, color)

 

SmallTown Ecstasy: Getting High With Dad

 

This cautionary program pulls no punches as it tracks the downward spiral of a successful suburban husband and father who, at 40, becomes addicted to the drug ecstasy and ruins his family and his marriage. A powerfully unsettling firsthand account of middle-class drug abuse, the program documents Scott’s dive into the rave scene, where he encourages his teenage children to do drugs with him; his acrimonious divorce and custody battle; his arrest on drug charges; and his children’s fruitless attempt to help him get straight. The emotional devastation and brain damage resulting from drug abuse are emphasized. Viewer discretion is advised. An HBO Production. (DVD & VHS, 85 minutes, color)

 

Smoking Out The Truth: Teens And Tobacco

 

You can lecture until you’re blue in the face about the horrible effects of cigarettes, but tobacco companies spending tens of millions of dollars every day on marketing, even the most forceful teachers and counselors need all the help they can get. This video focuses on the illusions and misconceptions surrounding teen smoking, exposing the faulty reasoning that leads kids to start or continue the habit. It also offers several rock-solid motives to quit or abstain-and strategies for doing so. (DVD, 24 minutes)

 

The New Face Of Drugs

 

Drugs are no longer something you have to smoke, or shoot, or snort…they’re candy-flavored pills.  DRUGS ARE EVERYWHERE and they’re hidden in plain sight! Join Debby Pastrana and her son, four-time X-Games gold medalist and five-time National Motocross Champion, Travis Pastrana, as we take a candid look at today’s drugs and listen to conversations with real people, real teens, real parents, undercover cops, treatment experts, and even former drug dealers. They want you to learn from their experiences and mistakes while offering their first-hand insight to this epidemic. (DVD with interactive menus, 60 minutes)

 

Thin: If It Takes Dying To Get There, So Be It

 

The HBO documentary film Thin takes us inside the walls of RenfrewCenter, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women (ages 15-30) who have spent much of their lives starving themselves – often to the verge of death. The film deftly chronicles the pervasiveness of disordered eating behaviors, as well as the failure of our current health-insurance industry to address its clients’ needs, while never shifting focus from the women themselves. (DVD, 102 minutes)

 

This Place

 

A 15 minute film that dramatically captures today’s youth drinking culture. This film shows the alcohol-saturated environment kids are exposed to and the impact of underage drinking. This Place offers a glimpse into communities that are taking action to reduce alcohol problems. This Place is loaded with information, dramatic in its storytelling and a must-have as a meeting opener to communicate on the underage alcohol issue. (DVD, 15 minutes)

 

Which Brain Do You Want? The Real Reasons Why You Should Always Say No To Alcohol, Drugs and Cigarettes

 

This video breaks through the perception barrier by showing actual brain images of people who have used drugs and alcohol. Based on extensive brain imaging research on hundreds of drug abusers we have shown that drugs and alcohol can have a serious negative impact on the physical functioning of the brain. (VHS, 40 minutes)

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