Equipping Leaders and Building Teams Since 1984!
Indiana Teen Institute began in 1984 with summer leadership conferences that later earned national prevention awards. By 2000, ITI had expanded to offer programs and workshops throughout the year.
ITI continues its work to equip facilitators, strengthen teams, and support safer, healthier Hoosier communities.
Explore our current and past programs and services below.
Breaking the Stress Cycle
Explore how stressors, thoughts, emotions, and behavior can reinforce one another, and discover opportunities to interrupt the cycle.
Through interactive activities and reflection, workshop participants examine assumptions, recognize unhelpful patterns, and explore practical strategies for responding to stress and supporting themselves and others.
Strategic Prevention Framework Workshop
Turn local concerns into purposeful, student-led prevention plans. The SPF interactive workshop guides youth and adult partners through assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Participants practice using data, identifying community strengths, and choosing strategies that address the conditions behind substance misuse and other youth health and safety concerns.
What’s Your Move? Decision Cards
Real situations. Real choices.
Practice what you’ll do before you have to do it.
Two complementary card decks combine realistic situations, unexpected plot twists, and response options to spark discussion and decision-making practice. Flexible prompts help teens explore risk and protective factors and consider how to prevent problems before they happen.
VOICE IndianA
From VOICE’s launch in 2002 through June 2021, ITI partnered with the Indiana Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation program to support Indiana’s statewide youth empowerment brand and promote tobacco-free lifestyles.
ITI facilitated camps, retreats, and capacity-building programs; provided regional and statewide coordination; and helped develop resources for teens and adults. This included partnering with SADD to create Sweet Deception, a peer-to-peer presentation on vaping.
Read more about ITI’s work with VOICE in the CDC Best Practices User Guide: Youth Engagement.
