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General drugs, alcohol and tobacco tools
Evaluation and Assessment of School Drug Education Programmes
This tool defines different kinds of evaluation methods, both formal and informal, that teachers or facilitators of drug education programmes can use to assess the quality of programme implementation and the effect on student knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the short and long-term. It includes a checklist for evaluating skills-based drug education programs.
Teacher Training for Drug Prevention Education
This tool emphasizes the importance of teachers being properly trained and supported to be effective as drug prevention educators. It offers recommendations for the design and implementation of teacher training based on the findings of research and programme experience about what contributes to success in the area of school-based drug education. It also includes guidelines on when and how to use outside experts.
Planning Drug Prevention Interventions: Conducting a Situation Analysis
This tool provides an overview of the information that it is useful to collect in the planning stage for a drug use prevention programme. In addition, it provides detailed descriptions of the methods that are commonly used to collect information in the course of a needs assessment/situation analysis. The source document was written by youth, for other youth engaged in the development of a community-based drug use prevention programme.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health policy tools
Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A Tobacco Policy Guide for Schools
This tool contains sample policies which reflect that “school health programs can help ensure that students are fit, healthy, and ready to learn every day.”
Managing Drug Related Incidents at School
This tool offers detailed guidelines for managing drug incidents in school in ways that are fair to victims, perpetrators and the whole school community; consistent with school policies and local laws; and effective at reducing drug use and the harm it causes to individuals, the school and the community.
National Policy on Drug Abuse Management in Schools: Sample from South Africa
This tool is an example of existing national Education Sector policy to prevent and manage problems associated with drug abuse in schools.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco water, sanitation and the environment tools
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco skills-based health education tools
Taking a Life Skills-based Approach to Drug Education
This tool explains how the principles and methods of life skills-based education can be applied to improve drug education programmes.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Guidelines for Selecting Content for School Drug Education Curricula
This tool discusses the role that school-based drug education programs may play in preventing or reducing drug use and the adverse consequences of drug use to individuals and society.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs. It suggests ways that the potential of sports to prevent/reduce substance abuse can be enhanced, and provides guidelines for establishing, running and maintaining a sports-based drug use prevention program.
Resource Information for Teachers on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
This tool provides resource information and fact sheets for teachers on six commonly used drugs: alcohol; tobacco; marijuana; cocaine and crack; inhalants; and steroids.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
This tool gives the answers to frequently asked questions about the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), its implications and process and contains the full text of the Convention. Teachers could find this a useful information support when preparing lessons for secondary school children.
Guiding Principles for School-based Drug Education
After defining the terms “guiding principle”, “drug” and “school-based drug education”, this tool sets out the ten main guiding principles that can provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy-makers and school administrators could make decisions about the design and delivery of effective school-based drug prevention programmes.
Creating Health-Promoting, Tobacco-Free Schools
A lesson plan designed for teachers working with primary and secondary school students, this tool is intended to help in creating a health-promoting school with a tobacco-free policy by teaching students to develop an advocacy plan to contribute to tobacco control efforts in their schools.
Effects of Different Substances on Our Health
This tool provides information suitable for school children aged 9–15 about the most commonly used substances and their effects on children’s health.
Using Sport for Drug Abuse Prevention: Sample Athletes’ Code of Conduct
This tool provides a sample “Code of Conduct” for athletes. It is a suggestion of the values, attitudes and practices that lead to respect and fair play among competitors, which the authors describe as the true “spirit of sport”.
Selected Mood-Altering Drugs and their Effects on Athletic Performance
This tool provides basic information about the possible effects of commonly abused drugs on athletic performance.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can be help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Tobacco Prevention
This tool is intended to help curriculum planners and teachers develop an effective tobacco prevention education programme. It begins with a discussion of the need to use a variety of interventions to effectively address the multiple factors that influence an individual’s choice to use, abstain from using or stop using tobacco products.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health services tools
Alcohol Screening Instrument
This tool is designed for school staff or school-based service providers to assist them in understanding why their students use alcohol. It can also be used by students who drink alcohol to make self-assessments.
Guidelines for Individual Drug Counselling in Schools
This tool is intended for use in a variety of substance abuse counselling settings. It has been adapted here for use by teachers or drug counsellors at schools to help them to understand the art of individual counselling.
Basic Skills for Identifying, Counselling and Making Initial Contact with Students who Use Drugs
This tool sets out expert recommendations and offers guidelines to teachers and other school staff to assist them in identifying students they suspect to be using drugs, approaching suspected drug users, and making initial contact with them.
Relevant Stories for classroom use to emphasise messages and promote life skills |
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General drugs, alcohol and tobacco tools
Evaluation and Assessment of School Drug Education Programmes
This tool defines different kinds of evaluation methods, both formal and informal, that teachers or facilitators of drug education programmes can use to assess the quality of programme implementation and the effect on student knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the short and long-term. It includes a checklist for evaluating skills-based drug education programs.
Teacher Training for Drug Prevention Education
This tool emphasizes the importance of teachers being properly trained and supported to be effective as drug prevention educators. It offers recommendations for the design and implementation of teacher training based on the findings of research and programme experience about what contributes to success in the area of school-based drug education. It also includes guidelines on when and how to use outside experts.
Planning Drug Prevention Interventions: Conducting a Situation Analysis
This tool provides an overview of the information that it is useful to collect in the planning stage for a drug use prevention programme. In addition, it provides detailed descriptions of the methods that are commonly used to collect information in the course of a needs assessment/situation analysis. The source document was written by youth, for other youth engaged in the development of a community-based drug use prevention programme.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health policy tools
Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A Tobacco Policy Guide for Schools
This tool contains sample policies which reflect that “school health programs can help ensure that students are fit, healthy, and ready to learn every day.”
Managing Drug Related Incidents at School
This tool offers detailed guidelines for managing drug incidents in school in ways that are fair to victims, perpetrators and the whole school community; consistent with school policies and local laws; and effective at reducing drug use and the harm it causes to individuals, the school and the community.
National Policy on Drug Abuse Management in Schools: Sample from South Africa
This tool is an example of existing national Education Sector policy to prevent and manage problems associated with drug abuse in schools.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco water, sanitation and the environment tools
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco skills-based health education tools
Taking a Life Skills-based Approach to Drug Education
This tool explains how the principles and methods of life skills-based education can be applied to improve drug education programmes.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Guidelines for Selecting Content for School Drug Education Curricula
This tool discusses the role that school-based drug education programs may play in preventing or reducing drug use and the adverse consequences of drug use to individuals and society.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs. It suggests ways that the potential of sports to prevent/reduce substance abuse can be enhanced, and provides guidelines for establishing, running and maintaining a sports-based drug use prevention program.
Resource Information for Teachers on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
This tool provides resource information and fact sheets for teachers on six commonly used drugs: alcohol; tobacco; marijuana; cocaine and crack; inhalants; and steroids.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
This tool gives the answers to frequently asked questions about the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), its implications and process and contains the full text of the Convention. Teachers could find this a useful information support when preparing lessons for secondary school children.
Guiding Principles for School-based Drug Education
After defining the terms “guiding principle”, “drug” and “school-based drug education”, this tool sets out the ten main guiding principles that can provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy-makers and school administrators could make decisions about the design and delivery of effective school-based drug prevention programmes.
Creating Health-Promoting, Tobacco-Free Schools
A lesson plan designed for teachers working with primary and secondary school students, this tool is intended to help in creating a health-promoting school with a tobacco-free policy by teaching students to develop an advocacy plan to contribute to tobacco control efforts in their schools.
Effects of Different Substances on Our Health
This tool provides information suitable for school children aged 9–15 about the most commonly used substances and their effects on children’s health.
Using Sport for Drug Abuse Prevention: Sample Athletes’ Code of Conduct
This tool provides a sample “Code of Conduct” for athletes. It is a suggestion of the values, attitudes and practices that lead to respect and fair play among competitors, which the authors describe as the true “spirit of sport”.
Selected Mood-Altering Drugs and their Effects on Athletic Performance
This tool provides basic information about the possible effects of commonly abused drugs on athletic performance.
Engaging Parents in School Drug Education Programmes
This tool discusses the importance of partnerships with the wider community, and especially with parents, to reinforce and expand the reach of school-based efforts to prevent drug use by students.
Using Sport to Prevent Substance Abuse by Youth
This tool describes how “sport with the right spirit” can be help young people develop personal assets that have been associated with a decision not to use drugs.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Tobacco Prevention
This tool is intended to help curriculum planners and teachers develop an effective tobacco prevention education programme. It begins with a discussion of the need to use a variety of interventions to effectively address the multiple factors that influence an individual’s choice to use, abstain from using or stop using tobacco products.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health services tools
Alcohol Screening Instrument
This tool is designed for school staff or school-based service providers to assist them in understanding why their students use alcohol. It can also be used by students who drink alcohol to make self-assessments.
Guidelines for Individual Drug Counselling in Schools
This tool is intended for use in a variety of substance abuse counselling settings. It has been adapted here for use by teachers or drug counsellors at schools to help them to understand the art of individual counselling.
Basic Skills for Identifying, Counselling and Making Initial Contact with Students who Use Drugs
This tool sets out expert recommendations and offers guidelines to teachers and other school staff to assist them in identifying students they suspect to be using drugs, approaching suspected drug users, and making initial contact with them.
Relevant Stories for classroom use to emphasise messages and promote life skills |
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