The Say it Straight Program (SIS) is a social skills training program designed to discourage substance use by developing social assertiveness in adolescents. The youth participate in structured, video-taped role-playing, which is followed by feedback from others and the participant's viewing of his or her own role-play performance. The program seeks to teach communication, decision-making, and assertiveness skills that may prevent the participants from using alcohol or other drugs. Post-test results from an experimental study assessing the effectiveness of the SIS program found that youth who participated in the SIS program (n=1,564) demonstrated more assertive skills, and had fewer alcohol- or drug-related school suspensions than the non-treatment group (n=1,295) (Englander-Golden, Elconin, Miller, & Schwarzkopf, 1986).