Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana

Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana is an after school drug prevention program for youth aged 10 - 14 years. The acronym "R.O.C.K." represents the mission of the program to provide Recreation, Object lessons, Culture and values and Knowledge via active and entertaining Focused and Supportive Prevention Activities designed to teach youth about social and media influences, conflict resolution and refusal/resistance skills, gang and violence prevention and the structuring of leisure time to be free of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.

Born of a need for constructive, supervised activities for youth during the after school hours of 3pm to 6pm, Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana provides youth with a prescribed strategy of structured and unstructured activities that promote positive social relationships and skills during these "three critical hours" of unsupervised time during which today's youth often find themselves tempted to engage in risky behaviors such as experimentation with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs as well as vandalism, gang activity and sexual experimentation.

Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana programs are targeted toward youth 10 to 14 years of age, as this developmental period has been identified as a "window of increased vulnerability" when youth are more likely to begin using alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Indeed, results from the annual survey Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use by Indiana Children and Adolescents, administered by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center, reveal that almost two-thirds of all new experimentation with drugs among youth in Indiana occurs between the end of sixth grade and the end of ninth grade.

The state of Indiana is divided into 14 Defined Service Areas (DSA). CHANCES oversees two DSAs of Afternoons R.O.C.K. programming.

DSA 6 – Todd Pierce, Program Director
Counties: Benton, Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren and White

DSA 11 – Sarah Morgan, Program Director
Counties: Clay, Daviess, Greene, Knox, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo

To locate a ROCKs Program near you click here or for more information contact Sarah or Todd.