Released on: October 2, 2008, 6:57 am

Press Release Author: Botvin LifeSkills Training

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Princeton Health Press is proud to announce that Learning
Magazine has selected the LifeSkills Training Elementary CD-ROM as a winner of the
2009 Teachers’ Choice Award.

Press Release Body: WHITE PLAINS, NY—Princeton Health Press is proud to announce
that Learning Magazine has selected the LifeSkills Training Elementary CD-ROM as a
winner of the 2009 Teachers’ Choice Award.

Now in its 15th year, The Teachers’ Choice Award program was introduced by Learning
Magazine to recognize the best educational products on the market. The products are
judged exclusively by teachers, who use the products in the classroom and rate them
on their quality, instructional value, ease of use, and innovation. Teacher teams
from across the United States gave the LifeSkills Training Elementary CD-ROM
exceptional marks.

The LifeSkills Training Elementary CD-ROM is an engaging, animated program designed
to help children learn the valuable lessons taught in the Botvin LifeSkills Training
drug abuse and violence prevention elementary school curriculum. Four lively
characters lead children through interactive activities to help them learn personal
self-management skills, general social skills, and drug resistance skills in the
context of everyday experiences familiar to elementary-aged children.

"This is quite an honor," said the program’s developer, Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D.
"This CD-ROM is an exciting new prevention product for us, and it’s tremendously
rewarding to have it recognized by this prestigious group." An internationally
renowned expert in the field of substance abuse prevention, Dr. Botvin is a
professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at Cornell University's Weill Medical
College and director of Cornell's Institute for Prevention Research.

The Botvin LifeSkills Training program is an evidence-based substance abuse and
violence prevention approach with more than 25 years of peer-reviewed research
behind it. The program has been cited for excellence by numerous organizations,
including the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the U.S. Department of
Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Studies testing its
effectiveness have found that the Botvin LifeSkills Training program can reduce the
prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use by as much as 87 percent.

For additional information, contact Paulina Kalaj at 914-421-2525 X221 or visit
www.lifeskillstraining.com.

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