A Higher Power, (previously In God's Image), is a fully scripted program designed to give faith leaders, teachers, youth and young adult ministers, mentors, parents and youth services providers a quick and easy to use curriculum to integrate the promotion of spiritual practices with other healthy lifestyle behaviors for preventing substance use/misuse and improving the mental and physical wellbeing of young people.

A Higher Power is the only faith-based program aimed at strengthening the “whole health” of adolescents and young adults by targeting spiritual, physical and mental wellness-promoting behaviors together in a practical and easy to implement single-session motivational intervention.  A Higher Power promotes knowledge, confidence and skills of young people to set goals to improve their spiritual and other health-enhancing habits while avoiding substance use/misuse which harms positive growth and development.

            A Higher Power is based on the Behavior Image Model (BIM), a proven theoretical framework which targets naturally motivating future images of youth to enhance their positive self-identity, goal setting skills, and multiple health-related behaviors.   

Young people need to establish a pattern of habits that counters current cultural messaging that often glorifies substance use/misuse and instead gives them a solid spiritual, physical and mental health behavior foundation for developing “whole health” and “whole self.”  Most often this involves a lifestyle rooted in a relationship with God or a “higher power” as widely communicated in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

A Higher Power comes in a digital download format allowing reproduction of program materials and implementation for an unlimited number of youth/young adults.  This program comes with:  

• A script for presenting positive image content linking the benefits of spiritual and other healthy behaviors with the need to avoid substance use/misuse;
• A brief self-administered Whole Health Screening Survey to increase reflection on current behaviors influencing spiritual, physical and mental health;
• Colorful slides highlighting vivid positive image terms and illustrations of youth modeling spiritual and other healthy behaviors;
• A Goal Plan & Contract for motivating multiple whole-health behavior change; 
• A 7-day Calendar Log for monitoring behavior change; 
• Evaluation materials for assessing program implementation quality and effectiveness;
• Phone and email program support; and
• Live onsite or online group training is offered separately to learn to provide A Higher Power, or train others to implement it, with fidelity and maximum effectiveness. 

A Higher Power is designed to increase spiritual health promoting behaviors, including: 1) taking time to pray, study scripture or meditate, 2) practice key virtues like showing gratitude for what you’ve received from God and others, 3) reach out to help others in need, and 4) attend religious services.  It also aims to increase other healthy habits, including: 1) physical activity, 2) healthy eating, and 3) getting adequate sleep which support spiritual growth and wellness.  In addition, A Higher Power targets the critical need to avoid harmful risk behaviors, particularly alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, marijuana, prescription opioid misuse, and other illicit drug use, which can interfere with achieving goals for living the life God meant for us.   

            A Higher Power takes less than 50 minutes to implement.  It can be provided as either a stand-alone program or used in conjunction with other religious, spiritual, education, health, prevention or substance abuse recovery programs.     

A Higher Power was created to help young people grow in grace and power to do the sometimes challenging things in life.  Those things which will result in developing into our best possible selves as more “whole” and “holy” as God planned for us. 

We are confident you will find this one-of-a-kind program an easy, fun and effective strategy for promoting more spiritually, physically and mentally healthy adolescents and young adults in your community.

Price: $249/instructor