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DOVER YOUTH TO YOUTH ! !

Dover Youth to Youth is an after-school drug-prevention program coordinated by the Dover Police Department Community Outreach Bureau.  Y2Y is open to students in 6^th -12^th grade in 4 local schools in Dover: Dover Middle School, Dover High School St. Mary Academy and St. Thomas Aquinas High School, as well as a few students from outside our district.   

Our program generally has 150 to 200 registered members every year.  Since it is not practical to try to have a meeting with 200 kids, we divide the students up into teams.  Each team consists of approximately 20-25 students and 2 advisers.  The team advisers are often DARE officers, School Resource Officers or school personnel.  We also have several college students from UNH who assist the teams.

Although the teams have the opportunity to do a variety of fun and drug-free recreational activities, such as wall climbing, hikes, dances, movies, swimming, skating and bowling, the primary function of Youth to Youth is to act as a youth empowerment program where students have the opportunity to take an active role in drug-prevention initiatives. 

Each Youth to Youth team takes on different types of prevention activities and the members of the teams help to decide which projects their team will get involved in throughout the year.  There are 5 main categories of prevention projects that students can take part in:

• Media productions, particularly creating radio ads.

• Presentations at schools, conferences and other locations.

• Community and School Awareness Programs.

• Enforcement initiatives such as compliance checks.

• Legislative efforts at the local or state level.

You can learn more about the projects Youth to Youth does in these categories by going to the Activities Menu above.

As a substance abuse and violence prevention program, Youth to Youth seeks to empower youth to take on community issues by:

• providing students with the information that will allow them to form a point of view,
• providing them with the skills to take action to change something that they are not satisfied with, and then,
• creating the opportunities to put those skills to work in order to create change.

Much more information is available about the history, design, and operation of Youth to Youth if you click here:

  Y 2 Y History