Helping schools

From chocolate to alcohol—from cannabis to opium. Drug use is a human phenomenon. Likewise, games of chance and gambling appear to be as old as human history and are found in every culture. The focus of drug education should be nurturing student resilience in this world in which drugs are readily available and often promoted. 

Featured Resources and Projects

Quick review (2 p): Drug education builds resilience in a drug using world.

An 8-page intro that covers the why and how of dialogue about drugs.

Drug History Timeline - an interactive educational resource.

Supporting excellence in teaching

• iMinds lesson plans

• Drug Education as Health Promotion

• Engaged philosophical inquiry: a self-directed inquiry group guide

• Nurturing resilience: a self-directed inquiry group guide

• Drug literacy curriculum

• Gambling literacy curriculum

• Defining drug literacy
• Drug education is conversation
• Quick guide to drug use
• Philosophical inquiry and drug education
• Using constructivist methods in drug education

Supporting healthy school policy

• Alternatives to suspension
• Comprehensive school health
• Developing healthy drug policies
  • School policy assessment tool
  • School policy process tool
• The ethics of risk and resilience
• Evidence review – Comprehensive program
• Healthy schools: Some foundational theory
• Helping peer mentors address substance use

Supporting parents and communities

• Cannabis use and youth: A parent's guide
• Let's talk dialogue: Community conversations about drugs
• Parenting: The drugs question
  
• Quick guide to drug use

Supporting positive interventions

• Art of motivation
• The gift of listening: A guide to mentoring peers
• Screening and brief intervention tools