Take Action in Secondary Schools
SECTION VII:
Resources
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Acting Responsibly: A Supplementary Unit for Dramatic Arts
Designed to engage drama students to reflect on their own experience about the use of substances in their lives and community, and to explore interpersonal strategies to share with their audiences through varied drama techniques.
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Canada’s Drug Strategy: Public and Professional Resources
Various fact-based documents used to enhance one’s current background knowledge of substance use and abuse
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CBC: Challenges, Beliefs and Changes
Peer led facilitation program with supporting curriculum
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The website contains a plethora of resources regarding fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and how other drugs and environmental tobacco smoke effect a developing fetus.
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Healthy Active Living: Keep Fit, Stay Healthy, Have Fun
Complete guide to pursuing a healthy and active lifestyle.
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Let’s Take Action on Alcohol Problems in Schools and on Campus
Healthy Public Policy/Supportive Environments
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National Anti-Drug Strategy
This website goal is to give young people the information they need to make conscious, informed choices.
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Obstacle Course Challenge
Extra curricular activity The Obstacle Course Challenge is an interactive and educational alcohol awareness activity that challenges participants to navigate an obstacle course on adult-sized tricycles while wearing "Fatal Vision" goggles that simulate impairment. The three tricycles are transported in a trailer along with 8 pairs of impaired vision goggles, road signs and tape to lay out the course, a leader’s information/instructions package and a display highlighting the effects of alcohol.
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Parent Action Parent Pack & Community Handbook
Fact-based information and discussion tools for parents and youths
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Party Safely: Prom Edition & If you Are a Girl
To enhance Healthy Active Living education, or to be disseminated at large to student body to educate and encourage healthy behaviours.
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Prescription for Addiction
A feature-length documentary that examines the growing health and social problem of addiction to opiate pain killer medications.
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Ripple Effect (The) - Alcohol Drugs and Youth: A documentary exploring the challenges and consequences of decision making
DVD and discussion activities
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Risky Drinking - Best Practices Literature Review: Towards a Campaign for Underage Drinkers
PowerPoint presentation that could be utilized for a health class doing research on adolescent drinking behaviours
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Should harm minimization, as an approach to adolescent substance use, be embraced to junior and senior high schools?
Incorporation of idea into a comprehensive school health-based program
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Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol
Could accompany debate on drinking alcohol and society’s view of alcohol
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Staff Toolkit for Substance Use and Abuse
Comprehensive school-based resource for secondary school staff to utilize for a holistic approach to substance use prevention in their school
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TAMI – Talking about Mental Illness (Community Guide and Teacher’s Resource)
An anti-stigma program for secondary school students
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Under the Influence? - Educator’s Toolkit on Alcohol Advertising for Grades 7-10
Activities and discussion
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What’s with Weed: A new peer-led student program to help youth recognize and reduce problematic marijuana use
Peer-led facilitation with supports for assembly presentations
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You are the Target – Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams – Now the Truth Project Moving Target & Quit The Spit Companion Curriculum
Facilitated small group
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Youth Substance Abuse Program
Peer-facilitated program done in a small group format. The program, based on a harm reduction strategy, is designed to get youth to discuss substance use issues with other youth and to have open and honest dialogue with teachers and guardians in a supportive environment. The program is a course of nine, one and half hour sessions, where all participants of the school community will be involved.
