Educating Students about Drug Use and Mental Health - Grades 9 & 10: Additional Resources
"About Alcohol; About Cocaine; About Marijuana; About Smoking"
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Written and illustrated in the style of a comic book, these four booklets use a humorous approach to deliver a serious message
to teens. They describe the sensations and dangers associated with each substance, legal penalties for possession and trafficking,
health concerns, and a brief history of the drug.
To order class sets, contact: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1-800-661-1111.
Visit the web site at:
http://www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/McLaughlin_Information_Centre
or http://www.camh.net/
"Break on Through" Smoking Cessation Resource Package, 1997
A resource for high school staff and students. Also, available in French.
Available from the Program Training and Consultation Centre (PTCC) 1-800-363-7822
Visit the web site at http://www.ptcc-rds.ca - Program Resources
Course Profiles: Healthy Active Living Education (Grades 9 and 10 Open)
Available at http://www.curriculum.org
"Educating Students About Drug Use and Abuse"
Ready-to-use lesson plans for drug education in your classroom
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2004
A curriculum support for the Ontario Curriculum, grades 9 and 10. Identifies progression and expectations for grades 9 and
10.
Available free http://www.camh.net/curriculum
"Family, Friends & Feelings"
Supplemental Resource Package for HIF: Individual and Family Living (Grade 9 or 10)
This resource package explores the challenges that youth face related to their friends, their families and their feelings
during adolescence, and the added pressure that tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs may add. Six themes are introduced in the
following modules:
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I The Group Scene
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IV Anger
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II Family Pressure Points
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V Friendship
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III Loneliness
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VI Self-Confidence
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Each of the six modules has three activity segments: introduction, examination of the theme in youth culture, and examination
of the theme in relation to tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. Eighteen activity segments and more than 50 black and white
masters have been created to explore these themes in a lively, compelling manner.
This exciting resource is from Parent Action on Drugs, Toronto District School Board and the Council On Drug Abuse. It is
available on CD-ROM and hardcopy manual format, and includes a 16-minute video.
Contact Parent Action On Drugs at 416-395-4970 or e-mail pad@parentactionondrugs.org
Visit the web site at http://www.parentactionondrugs.org
"FAS/FAE Lesson Plans for Grades 8 & 9 (2002)"
Porcupine Health Unit
This resource for teachers provides lesson plans on FAS for intermediate level students. The lesson plans were developed to
meet Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum requirements.
Contact Porcupine Health Unit, 169 Pine St. S., Postal Bag 2012, Timmons, Ontario or call 1-705-267-1181.
Visit the web site at http://www.porcupine.on.ca/school_health
"For the Record" - the reality video of a grad party
Video and Classroom Facilitation Guide for use with senior students. This 20-minute video replicates an actual incidence of
alcohol poisoning witnessed by the young filmmaker at his own high school after-grad party. Used with the video, the facilitation
guide helps youth, and the people who work with them, understand the process of alcohol poisoning and develop safety strategies
to reduce this and other partying risks. The video is a very realistic enactment of party behaviour and is a springboard for
discussions about taking responsibility for a friend, when to call for help, party host liability and other important issues.
A companion parent component, "Talking to Your Teen About Alcohol and Partying" , is also available.
Contact Parent Action On Drugs at 416-395-4970 or e-mail pad@parentactionondrugs.org
Visit the web site at http://www.parentactionondrugs.org
"Lungs Are For Life"
A skill based smoking and other substance abuse prevention program for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Contact OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Educators Association), 1185 Eglinton Ave. E., Suite 501, Toronto, M3C 3C6 or visit
the web site at www.ophea.net or contact www.lungsareforlife.ca or call the Lung Association at 1-800-972-2636
The Ontario Curriculum - Grades 9 & 10
Ministry of Education 1999
Health and Physical Education: Healthy Living Strand - Substance use and abuse
Visit the web site at http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/
OPHEA H&PE Curriculum Support Materials
(Ontario Physical & Health Education Association Health & Physical Education Curriculum Support Materials)
Contact OPHEA, 1185 Eglinton Ave. E., Suite 501 Toronto, M3C 3C6
Visit the web site at: http://www.ophea.net/
"Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey - (OSDUS)" - 1977-2007
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
OSDUS is the longest on-going school survey of adolescents in Canada. The study, which spans over two decades, is an Ontario-wide
school survey of students in Grades 7 - 12. It is based on 14 surveys conducted every two years since 1977.
Visit the web site at http://www.camh.net/research/osdus.html#2005drugusereport to view.
"PASS It On" - Peers, Parties And Senior Students
A Facilitator's guide for developing a "PASS It On" campaign for safer partying.
This package provides teacher/health facilitators with a comprehensive outline of a Training Day to help senior students arrive
at their own safer partying campaign for their peers. The package includes all overhead transparencies and copies of an 11"
x 14" "Safer Partying" campaign poster. Available Free.
Contact PARENT ACTION ON DRUGS at 416-395-4970 or Contact Parent Action On Drugs at 416-395-4970 or e-mail pad@parentactionondrugs.org
Visit the web site at http://www.parentactionondrugs.org/passiton.php
"Peers and Parties…plus"
Ontario Curriculum Support Resource with specific linkages to the Grade 9 Healthy Active Living Expectations
This teacher friendly resource package explores the challenges that youth face related to their peers and parties, plus the
many other influences and pressures they experience as they make the transition to high school. These challenges are explored
in seven interactive and compelling activity modules and features Skeletons in the Closet, a new 25-minute video about the
motives, risks and consequences of teens and parties.
Each activity module includes:
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Objective and overview
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Accommodations
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Teaching/Learning strategies
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Planning notes
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Summative response journal
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Appendices (black line masters)
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Assessment/Evaluation
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The package also contains extensive teacher, student and parent resources on tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs.
The document is available on CD-ROM and in hardcopy manual.
Contact PAD at 416-395-4970 or
pad@parentactionondrugs.orgVisit the web site at
http://www.parentactionondrugs.org/
"Parent Action Pack"
Developed by Parent Action on Drugs. A free information kit for parents of youth age 11-19. The kit helps parents understand
and face the challenges of teenage use of alcohol and other drugs. The Parent Action Pack provides statistics, consequences
of drug use, and ways to reduce the risks. It also gives parents practical answers to questions.
Contact Diane Buhler, Parent Action on Drugs at 1-416-395-4970, or e-mail pad@parentactionondrugs.org
Visit the web site at http://www.parentactionondrugs.org/articles
"Preventing Substance Use Problems Among Youth: A Literature Review and
Recommendations"
Paglia, Angela; Room Robin, 1998, ARF Research Document Series
Contact Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 1800-661-1111.
Visit the web site at http://www.camh.net/
"Stride" Curriculum - Don Smythe, 1999
A curriculum for ages 12-14, which focuses on tobacco and alcohol, and challenges youth to examine pressures to use, including
advertising. Peer education is used in an integral strategy.
Contact: Council on Drug Abuse (CODA) at 1-416-763-1491
Visit the web site at http://drugabuse.ca
"The Ripple Effect"
The Ripple Effect is a 30-minute, youth friendly DVD highlighting the challenges and consequences of impaired decision making produced by the
Safe Grad/Party Committee of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk. The Ripple Effect uses interviews with people who have been directly or indirectly impacted by a decision made by someone under the influence
of drugs and/or alcohol. The stories told demonstrate the impact of substance related incidents on the individuals, their
families and the community as a whole.
Contact: Michelle Pasichnyk - Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit Michelle.Pasichnyk@hnhu.org or 519-426-6170 Ex 3274 or www.digitalduckinc.com/therippleeffect
"Take Action in Secondary Schools: An Educators Guide to Substance Use Prevention" This reference guide is intended to increase the confidence of educators and other members of the school community to address
and prevent student substance use by providing information to connect schools with supports that are available in the areas
of curriculum and instruction, policies and guidelines, and to link schools with available community programs, resources,
and services.
Contact: Take Action, c/o Ophea, 1185 Eglinton Ave East, Suite #501, Toronto, ON, M3C 3C6, Tel: 416-426-7120,ax: 416-426-7373,
E-mail: takeaction@ophea.net
"Under the Influence?"
Educator's Kit on alcohol advertising for Students in Grades 7-10, ARAPO (Association to Reduce Alcohol Promotion in Ontario),
1999
Lesson plans, presentation outline and activities focusing on media literacy and alcohol advertising for youth.
Contact Association to Reduce Alcohol Promotion in Ontario, c/o O.P.H.A., 202-468 Queen St. E., Toronto, Ontario M5A 1T7
1-416-367-3313 ext. 233 or e-mail arapo@opha.on.ca
Visit the website at http://www.opha.on.ca
"Virtual Party"
The Virtual Party is an interactive, education internet-based resource simulating a party situation, providing information
to youth about alcohol and mental health, emphasizing healthy choices and imparting skills for the reduction of harm. It is
targeted at youth between the ages of 13 and 19. The young person is able to choose either a male or female character and
make choices about their activities during a "virtual" evening.
Visit the web site at www.virtual-party.org
"Your Life: Your Choice!"
An Educational Resource for Teaching Young Teens about Alcohol
The goal of this site is to improve the quality and breadth of alcohol abuse prevention education in Canadian schools. More
specifically, it contains educational resource materials that support the acquisition of information and the development of
skills and attitudes on the use, misuse, and abuse of alcohol. Available in English and French.
Visit the web site at http://www.schoolnet.ca/alcohol/
"Your Liver, Your Health"
Educational Kit about the Liver with a Special Focus on Hepatitis B, from the Canadian Liver Foundation.
General background information about the liver, its functions, common diseases of the liver and how to keep the liver healthy
(formatted for overhead projection or handout)
Available from Canadian Liver Foundation at 1-800-563-5483
POLICY
"The Legal Rights, Powers, and Obligations of Educators Regarding Student Alcohol and Other Drug Use"
Solomon, Robert, 2004, Best Advice Paper, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Web site http://www.camh.net/ search "Legal rights, Powers"
"The Ontario Code of Conduct"
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/conduct/conduct.html
APOLNET (Ontario Public Health Association and the Alcohol Policy Network)
Co-ordinator, Paula Neves, 468 Queen St. E., Ste. 202, Toronto, Ont. M5A 1T7
1-800-267-6816 Ext. 23 mailto:apn@web.net
Visit the web site at http://www.apolnet.org/
Visit the CAMH web site for a full listing of videos at:
http://www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/CAMH_Library/libraryaudiovisuals.html
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