a. Bring the completed Membership Application, signed by both youth and parent/ guardian, to the next D-Fy student enrollment event.

b. Enrollment events are held regularly at your youth’s school.

c. Enrollment events are conducted during your youth’s lunch periods, in the cafeteria, and other select times and locations (check website and social media for options), to:

i. Enroll students who ride the school bus and would not be able to join after school.

ii. Enroll students who participate in extracurricular activities, after school, and would not be able to join.

iii. Discourage interference with the youth’s academic schedule.

d. Your youth can decide to join before or after they eat lunch, or during an enrollment opportunity, for specific groups.

Yes, all youth must validate their commitment to being drug, alcohol, and nicotine/tobacco free, by presenting a negative drug screen.

No, school staff are never notified of student’s screening results whether they are positive or negative.

Yes, parents/guardians are contacted by the community-based organization and notified of their youth’s positive screen and are provided local resources for support.

a. Yes, this is considered a false positive. If the parent has not sent verification of their child’s prescription in advance, the parent will be contacted to verify that their child is taking prescription medicine.

b. Parents are always contacted when there are false positives (prescription medicines) or actual positives (illicit substance use).

No youth can be mandated to join D-Fy. It is a voluntary initiative.

Any youth who comes to an enrollment event and expresses that they do not want to join will not be screened to become a part of the initiative.