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Providing the knowledge and skills that our children need to make healthy lifestyle choices is crucial if we are to evoke behaviour change. The following programs have within them the capacity to build foundations for positive life choices that can last a lifetime.
Through the partnership of school and community we can provide opportunities through active learning to enhance education around substance use and work towards comprehensive programming that serves our community.
Take Action
A comprehensive, classroom based program designed to support educators in teaching awareness regarding medications and harmful substances. It also provides information about tobacco, alcohol and substance use and meets the expectations for the Ontario curriculum. There are numerous, easy to use lesson plans and activities designed to help young people make healthy lifestyle decisions.
This program looks at developing refusal, problem solving and decision making skills in order to prepare students when faced with tough situations and decisions.
Take Action is available beginning in Kindergarten right through to grade 12 and provides direct links to literacy expectations. Training is available to implement the program if needed.
In Health Canada’s compendium of Best Practices, the research indicates that if students are to make healthy lifestyle choices, then substance use and abuse programs should be continuous from Kindergarten though to grade 12. It is important for students to receive some substance use and abuse education at each grade level. Building a foundation in Kindergarten and the primary grades gives students a head start in developing preventive skills that can last a lifetime.
What’s With Weed (WWW)
According to the Ontario Student drug use Survey from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2009 29.5% of students from grades 7-12 used marijuana in the last year. By grade 12, this number increases to 45.6. We are trying to address this problem through the WWW program. This program was piloted in seven high schools throughout Ontario with great success. A full report and evaluation results are available at www.parentactionondrugs.org
WWW is a peer education program to engage youth between 15-18 in identifying problems they or their friends may be having with the use of marijuana, and ways they might change to reduce these problems
This youth-driven program provides secondary schools with effective tools to address problematic marijuana use with its students. It helps students identify not only potential problems but also positive behaviour change strategies. It also provides supports to reduce, avoid, or prevent the problems.
The program model includes a strategy for recruiting senior students as peer educators, a training day for the senior educators to provide instructions on delivering a 75 minute workshop to their younger peers about the real risks of marijuana, and ways to reduce these risks.
The program supports a harm reduction approach. While it does include and support abstinence in the range of strategies, it does not demand it. The program supports the options for change and follows a stages of change model.
We are planning to pilot this program in one secondary school this year with the hope to expand it over the next several years. We need to begin to address the issue of marijuana use in our schools.
Links
Take Action Overview
Virtual Party
Xperiment
What's With Weed
Through the partnership of school and community we can provide opportunities through active learning to enhance education around substance use and work towards comprehensive programming that serves our community.
Take Action
A comprehensive, classroom based program designed to support educators in teaching awareness regarding medications and harmful substances. It also provides information about tobacco, alcohol and substance use and meets the expectations for the Ontario curriculum. There are numerous, easy to use lesson plans and activities designed to help young people make healthy lifestyle decisions.
This program looks at developing refusal, problem solving and decision making skills in order to prepare students when faced with tough situations and decisions.
Take Action is available beginning in Kindergarten right through to grade 12 and provides direct links to literacy expectations. Training is available to implement the program if needed.
In Health Canada’s compendium of Best Practices, the research indicates that if students are to make healthy lifestyle choices, then substance use and abuse programs should be continuous from Kindergarten though to grade 12. It is important for students to receive some substance use and abuse education at each grade level. Building a foundation in Kindergarten and the primary grades gives students a head start in developing preventive skills that can last a lifetime.
What’s With Weed (WWW)
According to the Ontario Student drug use Survey from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2009 29.5% of students from grades 7-12 used marijuana in the last year. By grade 12, this number increases to 45.6. We are trying to address this problem through the WWW program. This program was piloted in seven high schools throughout Ontario with great success. A full report and evaluation results are available at www.parentactionondrugs.org
WWW is a peer education program to engage youth between 15-18 in identifying problems they or their friends may be having with the use of marijuana, and ways they might change to reduce these problems
This youth-driven program provides secondary schools with effective tools to address problematic marijuana use with its students. It helps students identify not only potential problems but also positive behaviour change strategies. It also provides supports to reduce, avoid, or prevent the problems.
The program model includes a strategy for recruiting senior students as peer educators, a training day for the senior educators to provide instructions on delivering a 75 minute workshop to their younger peers about the real risks of marijuana, and ways to reduce these risks.
The program supports a harm reduction approach. While it does include and support abstinence in the range of strategies, it does not demand it. The program supports the options for change and follows a stages of change model.
We are planning to pilot this program in one secondary school this year with the hope to expand it over the next several years. We need to begin to address the issue of marijuana use in our schools.
Links
Take Action Overview
Virtual Party
Xperiment
What's With Weed
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