Name of Project: FAST (Families and Schools Together)

Class members in project: Meagan Hughes, Frank Morris, and

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

child’s parents, FAST parents, school and community. Ten to

boxes. We also need enough food for family meals and a cook

face-to-face. Telephone and written correspondence are

impaired, and ethnic considerations such as, religious,

Children will also face their first encounter with “division

entire curriculum is embedded in activities that build

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