5 Alternatives to New Year’s Resolutions
You’ve probably set a New Year’s resolution at least once in your life… to lose weight, read more, be more intentional with your family this year, etc. Have you noticed that come spring, you’ve probably already forgotten all about them? Healthy habits aren’t built through willpower alone—they’re created through small, consistent actions. Wellbeing 101 offers […]
Shoplifting Awareness & Prevention: How to Stop Teen and Adult Theft with Court-Approved Course
Shoplifting is often more than a simple lapse in judgment—it can be a pattern of behavior with lasting consequences. STOPLifting helps teens and adults understand the motivations behind theft, recognize the impact of their actions, and develop strategies to make better decisions in the future. Shoplifting is far more common than many realize — and […]
Promoting Student Wellness – How Educators Can Help
Student wellness doesn’t happen by chance. Wellbeing 101 helps students build self-awareness, strengthen coping skills, and develop healthy habits that support academic and personal success. Today’s students face an increasingly complex set of challenges that affect their emotional, social, and academic lives. From social pressures and family responsibilities to mental health struggles and academic stress, […]
Common Issues that Teens Face
Teenagers today are navigating a complex mix of academic pressure, mental health challenges, substance use risks, online behavior, and peer influence. While adolescence has always brought change and uncertainty, today’s teens are also growing up in a digital world where comparison, misinformation, cyberbullying, and risky online behavior can follow them beyond the classroom. For schools, […]
Evidence-Based Practices: Personalized Feedback
When it comes to substance use prevention and intervention, evidence shows that personalized feedback is one of the most effective strategies for promoting behavior change. A comprehensive review of 42 interventions found that programs incorporating motivational feedback, expectancy challenge, skills-based activities, and personalized feedback had the strongest impact on reducing risky behaviors.¹ At 3rd Millennium […]
Why Prevention Education Matters
Alcohol Wise, our alcohol prevention program, has been shown to reduce peak BAC levels, increase student retention rates, increase student achievement and GPA, and reduce negative consequences. For more information, download our whitepaper to see what kinds of benefits other campuses have been experiencing using Alcohol Wise as alcohol prevention education for incoming freshmen. Prevention education […]
What To Do if You Think Someone is Being Trafficked
Human trafficking is a transnational, organized crime that affects millions of victims and happens in almost every country in the world, including the United States. Anyone can be a trafficker regardless of social, ethnic, or racial group. Traffickers exploit victims for sex and forced labor by using tactics such as grooming, emotional exploitation, physical restriction, […]
Don’t Wreck the Holidays with Impaired Driving
It’s National Impaired Driving Prevention Month! This campaign, started in 1992, raises awareness about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or distractions. December is particularly risky, with impaired driving accidents peaking during the holidays. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that an average of 300 people die […]
Beating the Holiday Blues
The holiday season can bring added stress, loneliness, and emotional challenges for many students. Wellbeing 101 is an evidence-based course that helps students develop practical skills for managing stress, building resilience, supporting their mental health, and recognizing when to seek help. By equipping students with healthy coping strategies before challenges escalate, schools can foster a […]
Understanding Adult Alcohol Use
For most people, moderate alcohol use is not considered harmful. However, alcohol consumption is linked to a variety of short- and long-term health risks, including vehicular crashes, violence, sexually risky behaviors, high blood pressure, liver disease, mental health challenges, and various cancers, such as breast and liver cancer. Research confirms that these risks increase proportionally […]