Using a digital platform called ‘PIB’, Prevention Is Better delivers alcohol, nicotine and drug use prevention curriculum for schools across Ireland and the United Kingdom. PIB provides personalised, gamified, and age-appropriate, drug prevention education to students, teachers and parents.
Have a test drive of our lesson for 8-9 year olds for KS2 year 2-3 of the UK’s PSHE curriculum by clicking here
A subscription-based, responsive platform, called ‘Prevention Is Better’, PIB, which allows educators, parents, and students (ages 5 to 18) to have easy access to alcohol, nicotine and drug prevention information and exercises through gamification.
PIB engages with students in chat sessions, learning courses and interactive sessions to help them develop the life skills to make healthy choices about alcohol, nicotine and drug abuse.
We enhance in person prevention education with a scalable, gamified curriculum that can help to prevent future substance use. Our approach is measurable, realistic and fun!
Teachers can see how their students are progressing and record their notes.
Students can easily see their progress and when they are supposed to complete their lessons.
Features are easily accessible through your smartphone, tablet or computer.
Our mission is to prevent and reduce the use of alcohol, nicotine and drug use in young people by providing a technology-driven platform to deliver gamified curriculum based prevention education to students, evidence-based training and instructional materials to teachers, and useful resources to parents.
To be a world leader in reducing alcohol, nicotine and drug use in young people by providing the most effective prevention education in schools.
CEO and founder Ryan Ulrich has almost 20 years of experience working in the addiction treatment and drug prevention space. Growing up in a family impacted by alcoholism and overcoming his own struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues, Ryan’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance use through prevention.
CTO Chuck Ma has more than 30 years experience in Information Technology. Chuck has consulted with organizations across all industries on strategies to adopt newer technologies. As a volunteer youth worker, Chuck recognizes the need to inform our future leaders to recognize and avoid the temptations that can lead to the destructiveness of addiction.