Prevention Education
Marin TUPE uses prevention education and intervention developed from Stanford University's REACH Lab (Research and Education to Empower Adolescents and Young Adults to Choose Health). All of the curriculum options below are evidence-informed and evidence-based and are free and available online. Resources are for TUPE Coordinators, health educators, counselors, wellness coordinators, site administrators, healthcare providers, or anyone working with youth. The objective of the curriculum is for students in middle and high school grades to understand information about different drugs, gain awareness of marketing strategies used to lure youth to substance use and gain skills to refuse experimentation. The curriculums provide critical lessons explaining adolescent brain development and addiction, positive youth development, and health effects.
Request for Prevention Education Training: If you would like to request a training or presentation for your district, school, or organization, then please contact Ally Constantino at aconstantino@marinschools.org
This is classroom-based curriculum training. Audience: Teachers, curriculum instructors. Location/Time: This training can be provided virtually. Description: Each training includes an overview of the program and grade-level-specific information.
The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit contains theory-based and evidence-informed curriculums and resources created by educators, parents, youth, and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school student use of tobacco and nicotine.
You and Me, Together Vape Free Curriculum: addresses key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use, including changing adolescents' attitudes towards and misperceptions about e-cigarettes; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of flavors, marketing, and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to e-cigarettes initiation and use; improving coping; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all e-cigarette products.
6 lessons, approximately 50 minutes each
Middle and High School Options
Activities, online quiz games, worksheets, presentations, and resources
Smokeless Tobacco 101 Curriculum: A single lesson providing activities, online quiz games, worksheets, and discussion guides. Objective: aimed at addressing key factors associated with smokeless tobacco, and understanding the risks and history of smokeless tobacco use.
Includes an in-depth lesson plan with activities focusing on the costs of tobacco use, myths, smokeless tobacco and sports, refusal skill activities, and a discussion guide.
Middle/High School
Hookah 101 Curriculum: A single lesson providing activities, quiz games, worksheets, and discussion guides addressing key factors associated with hookah use and understanding risks.
Smart Talk: Cannabis Prevention & Awareness Curriculum, is a 5-lesson theory-based and evidence-informed curriculum created by the Stanford REACH Lab, healthcare providers, educators, and scientists. Lessons are included for:
Elementary Schools (click here)
Middle Schools (click here)
High Schools (click here)