Current programs sponsored by Upper Merion Area CAST include:

Brief Strategic Family Therapy - A family counseling program that helps families unite to reach their goals.

DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) - Highly acclaimed program that gives 5th through 8th grade students the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence led by local police officers.

Guiding Good Choices - Provides parents with the tools they need to guide their middle school- aged children through their developmental years through a 5 week parent education class.

Love and Logic - Provides parents with the skills they need to guide their elementary school- aged children through their formative years through a 6- week parent education class.

Staying Connected With Your Teen - Improves communication and builds stronger bonds between parents and teens in a 5- week parent education course.

UMAAT (Upper Merion Area Assistance Team) and PASS ((People for the Assistance of Students in Stress) - Provides a system of referral, intervention, and after- care for middle and high school students who are experiencing barriers to academic and/or personal success, including those with interpersonal issues, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, and mental health concerns.

CAST Seminar Series - Monthly evening seminar series on various topics open to the entire Upper Merion Area community.

CAST Clubs - Before and after- school student activity clubs at the middle and high school.

Project ALERT - Based on the social influence model of prevention, Project ALERT is designed to help motivate young people to avoid using drugs and to teach them the skills they need to understand and resist pro-drug social influences.  It helps students understand the consequences of drug use, recognize the benefits of nonuse, build norms against use, and indentify and resist pro-drug pressure.  The focus is on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.

Project TND - Project TND is an evidence-based group program that will be provided to UMASD middle and high schools students to address the needs identified by the PAYS survey.  Project TND is a middle/high school focused program that assists students in developing self control and communication skills, acquire resources to help them in resisting drug use, improve decision making strategies and develop the motivation to not use drugs.

Life Skills Training - The Life Skills Training program is based on what the latest research tells us about the causes of substance abuse and it is comprehensive in scope.  It addresses all of the most important factors leading teens to use one or more drugs by teaching a combination of health information, general life skills and drug resistance skills.