Botvin Life Skills Training (LST), an evidence-based program developed by prevention and health behavior experts at Cornell University, is a school-based prevention program for middle school students. LST consists of 15 lessons and teaches a variety of personal self-management skills and social skills to increase perceived self-efficacy and reduce the perceived incentives of substance use in youth and young adults.

Twelve UK Extension agents collaborated with their local middle schools to deliver LST to more than 1,000 Kentucky middle school students.

Contacts: Alex Elswick & Katherine Jury