Educating Students About Drug Use and Mental Health - Catholic - Grade 9 and 10: Acknowledgements

This educational resource is a "supplement" to the Healthy Active Living Education, Catholic Course Profiles and contains excerpts which are reproduced with permission and acknowledgment to the work of the Catholic Curriculum Cooperative Writing Partnership - Healthy Active Living Education.

This material is used with permission of the Institute for Catholic Education. Its use does not imply sponsorship or approval of the other contents of this publication by the Institute for Catholic Education.

As well, parts of the following background information, lessons, activities and appendices are excerpted or adapted with permission from Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum Support: Kindergarten to Grade 10, Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA), Toronto, 2000.

Additionally, we must acknowledge the work and contribution by the Toronto District School Board whose TDSB Resource Documents served as the beginning root of these educational documents.

Please note that we have included Activities and Teaching/Learning Strategies that deal only and specifically with substance use and abuse. There are other Activities and Teaching/Learning Strategies that integrate substance use and abuse with other healthy lifestyle choices. Please refer to the Healthy Active Living Education, Catholic Course Profile for all Activities and Teaching/Learning Strategies.

This educational resource has benefited from the contributions of many dedicated people, representing a wide range of expertise across the province of Ontario. We are grateful and indebted to all of them for the time they have devoted to creating this resource and for their commitment throughout all phases of development. We also gratefully acknowledge the contribution of those listed below as well as many others who contributed through informal consultations.

Original Project Team

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Staff

Sharon LaBonté-Jaques, Project Leader
Andrea Stevens Lavigne, Youth Program Leader

Cindy Andrew*
Jennifer Barr
Donna Beatty
Janice Cole*
Monique Bouvier
Jody Hamilton
Marty McLeod
Susan Rosenstein
Cindy Smythe
Suzanne Witt-Foley

*Maternity Leave Replacements

Community Members

Mike Bethune, St. Basil's School, Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board

Diane Buhler, PAD Drug Education and Support Services

Yvonne Cheung, Toronto Public Health, South Region

Marilyn Dyck, Peterborough County - City Health Unit

Mary-Anne McBean, Toronto Public Health

Glen Miller, Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board

Lawrence Murphy, Hamilton-Wentworth Social & Public Health Services Division

Paula Neves, Ontario Public Health Association, Alcohol Policy Network

Susan Orchard, J. W. Singleton Education Centre

Pat Sanagan, PAD Drug Education and Support Services

Robert Sneddan, Algonquin Secondary School

Myra Stephen, Ontario Physical Health Education Association

Gail Stewart, York Region District School Board

Jennifer Stremko, Grand Erie District School Board

Helen Tunney, York Region Health Services

Richard Ward, Toronto District School Board

Terry Wollenzien, York District School Board

Additional Reviewers

Kim Baker, Addiction Services of Brant, Haldimand-Norfolk

Jennifer Hance, OPHA Alcohol Policy Network

Pearl Isaac, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Marianne Kobus-Matthews, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Michael Piercy, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Shannen Sorgei, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Elsbeth Tupker, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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