Middle After-School Prevention Programming (MAPP) (known popularly as "Club Xtreme")

MAPP is funded by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Division of Addictive Diseases, Office of Prevention Services and Programs.

MAPP is a collaborative effort of The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, numerous host agencies in north Georgia and Metro Atlanta, numerous Family Connection collaboratives and the Burruss Institute for Public Service and Research at Kennesaw State University (the evaluator).

Programs used within MAPP are Exemplary, Model, and Promising Programs.

MAPP incorporates and uses Project ALERT Life Skills Training & All Stars programs.

MAPP utilizes Club Xtreme, an overall after-school program designed to help middle schoolers develop assets they need to prepare them for success in life and in school, and keep them from entering the drug culture. Academic enrichment, community service projects recreation and arts and crafts are included in programming activities.

Evaluation Results
Independent evaluation by Dr. Debi Starnes of EMSTAR Research has shown that MAPP increases school attendance and grades, knowledge of negatives effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, and decreases disciplinary referrals to school administration.

Program Components & Scheduling

List of Host Agencies

Benefits to Host Agencies

Rabun Youth photographs

Testimonials

For more information on MAPP, contact Dr. Gregg Raduka: graduka@livedrugfree.org

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.  To represent this month, we took the kids from the Battlewood Apartment MAPP program in Catoosa County on a field trip to Walmart and the Department of Children Services to plant pinwheels in the ground.  These colorful pinwheels were being planted in both of these locations, representing each child abuse case that has been reported in Catoosa County.  We planted 100 pinwheels.