What is Reality Tour?
These may have been the most important hours I ever spend with my son. – DadReality Tour® is a community-based drug prevention system designed as a single event to engage parents. Often held in the evening or weekend so parents WILL attend. Our system educates parent & child together to put parent and child on the same page. Reality Tour® is UNLIKE scare tactics. Our dramatic scenes are PG and balanced with family coping skills to avoid experimentation. Reality Tour was evaluated by the University of Pittsburgh in 2007-08 and a recipient of NECAP Service to Science Award.
- Establishes regularly scheduled prevention (monthly/quarterly)
- Networks all 12 sectors of the community and school partnerships
- Uses existing resources & volunteers
- Works in urban, suburban & rural settings
- Supports other prevention activities
- Energizes community around prevention
- Proven sustainability for 16 years
- Affordable, launch with or without grants
Our Method:
The Consequences
- Narrated scenes of life & death choices
- Youth participant’s own photo morphed
- Appropriate for youth ages 10-17 with a parent
The Coping Skills
- Recognize 1st signs of use
- 10 personal goals for drug prevention
- Refusal skills engagement
The Interviews
- Law officer relates local trends
- Youth in recovery de-glamourizes use
- Parent of youth affected (optional)