Teacher Resources

Teachers:

PLANNING GUIDE: Here's the latest listing of fully stocked items, workshop ideas to consider and ways we can partner together to promote healthy communities! How about the DUI Tree? TAR WARS contest? Open House Nite Speaker? Display racks? Linking to us on your website? Click here for our request form!

 

See the news story that KTAL did with the Texas High MythBuster's project! (click here)

 

$500 Mini-Grants are available for your Tobacco Education/Prevention project!!! Click here.

 

Request your 2012 free calendars from the Texas Mental Health & Substance Abuse and Drug Free Texas (use the "other" to order one for each teacher at your school!

 

PRC material request form   (FREE) Brochures, posters, resources, age appropriate. Limited supplies, must be located in the Region 4 counties.

 

PRC can provide resources, speakers, presentations, training and information booths for your agency!

Request a Presentation/Event Participation

 

 

Bullying Key Sites for more info:

SPRC Brief on Bullying (Suicide Prevention Resource Center)

Teens and the Workplace

Stop Bullying.gov

PACER Teens Against Bullying www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org

A national anti-bullying and cyberbullying program for kids and teens. www.stompoutbullying.org

OvercomeBullying.org provides information and resources to help you overcome workplace bullying, school bullying, and mobbing.  Speak out now!

A special thank you to Ravin Hill, Texas School Business Magazine, for submitting the new additions to the Texas Anti Bullying Laws.
Synopsis: Normally, Texas would get a new grade of "A-" for points, http://www.bullypolice.org/grade.html under, the "Making the Grade" point system but these new additions are so good, ie., parental notification, counseling for bullies AND victims, sexting and cyberbullying clauses, etc., that I have decided to give them an A++ rating.  In the future, the "grading scale" will become an ungraded total point system, and Texas will lose points for not having a strong accountability clause (point 11), protections against reprisal, retaliation and false accusation (point 8) and better protections against lawsuits upon compliance to policies (point 9).

See document.

TAR WARS coming in April...prepare now!!!!

Everyone has a Story...awesome :60 second video!

 

 S.O.S.: Spotlight on Smokeless (Gr. 6-12) Free!
A curriculum that can be used in both school and community settings to give middle and high school youth the knowledge and skills needed to resist smokeless tobacco use. Includes a Teacher's Guide
Presents facts about smokeless tobacco and emphasizes that most young people don't use it. 
Examines health effects of smokeless tobacco use, as well as the social, emotional and financial consequences, and discusses the stages of addiction.  
Teaches how to analyze internal and external influences on tobacco use, and promotes media literacy through decoding smokeless tobacco ads.  
Uses a simple decision-making model to empower youth to make smart and healthy choices about tobacco use.
Gives youth practice in using effective refusal skills to say no to pressure, and helps them access resources to stay tobacco free.
Uses peer leaders to model skills, assist with classroom management, and set peer norms in favor of avoiding smokeless tobacco use.
Addresses the skills covered by the National Health Education Standards.
No stipends for this new funding period.

Limited stock!

 

"Drugs Can't Stop Me!" activity book for ages 6-9

English and Spanish! New stock - see our PRC Resource order form!

 Includes: be smart, be healthy, make good choices, be strong, be a real friend.

 

 

Take children to another place and time -- the world of the "Drugosaurs" - to create drug awareness and prevent drug abuse.

This book introduces children to 10 imaginary creatures -- "Nicotineadon, Amphetidon, Cannabisaur, Fryranosaurus, Steroidopterus, Huffadon, Scriptadon, Boozitupicus, Teracracktyl, Velociraver" -- that became extinct from using tobacco, amphetamines, marijuana, hallucinogens, steroids, inhalants, prescription drugs, alcohol, crack/cocaine, or MDMA/Ecstasy.

Two pages are dedicated to each drug. The first page tells the story of the drugosaur and how it became extinct. The latter page details each drug what it does to the user, long- and short- term effects, and its street names. This section is followed by fill-in-the-blank exercises that help children form an association between substance abuse and self-destruction.

Drugosaurs teach children to make smart and healthy choices by avoiding drugs. The underlying theme of the activity book is a "Don't go extinct!" no-use message.

 

RED RIBBON ACTIVITIES AND LINKS:

Information from: http://www.preventionpartners.com/stuff/activities.cfm?s=dom&t=804

IDEA: Use our "Drugs Won't Stop Me" activity books, bookmarks and stickers for this special week.

IDEA: purchase red ribbon from your local arts/gift store and cut into 2 to 3 inch long strips for students.

 

DECORATION DAY
Attend a City Council Meeting prior to Red Ribbon Week to allow the Mayor to issue the Red Ribbon Week Proclamation to kick-off the drug awareness activities.
Place red ribbons and bows all over your community - office buildings, posts, trees, billboards, mailboxes, bicycles, dogs, yourself, spouse, friends, boss, employees, buses, car antennas, front doors, fire trucks, police cars, hospitals, schools, etc.
Decorate your neighborhood malls and recreation centers, churches or synagogues, doctor's offices, corner businesses, pharmacies, the bank, the movies, grocery stores.
String a banner across the front of your school, your main street, the entrance to your football field, etc.
Hold Decoration Contests: doors, rooms, lockers, halls, bulletin boards, entry way, cafeteria, fences, trees at school; posters at all levels; houses; streets; blocks; cities.
Encourage your local media to highlight the Red Ribbon Week decorations. Publicize the winners in the Decoration Contests.
At school, utilize your Art class/club, Homeroom/Activity classes, Computer Graphics, Technical Drawing/Drafting.
In the community, involve the City Government, Civic Clubs, such as Rotary, Lion's, and Junior League, your volunteer organizations such as the Senior Citizens, and youth organizations such as YMCA, Boy and Girl Scouts.
 

INFORMATION DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Invite a Speaker to talk to your school, organization, or business about current drug trends.
Give a speech in your classroom, school, business, "Take a Stand", point out the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs on lives, families, brains, bodies, and futures.
Distribute drug information photocopied from the 1997 Red Ribbon Week Planning Guide to your school, class, business, neighborhood, church or synagogue.
Have a drawing each day of the Red Ribbon Week Campaign to give away a T-shirt with a drug-free message. Contestants must sign a drug-free pledge and receive some drug-free literature to be eligible.
At school, involve English, Social Studies, Science, Health, Speech, Journalism, and Audio-Visual Communications classes in research and reports regarding the current use and harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. Mathematics, and Economics classes could examine the effect on our economy regarding the costs of drug use, law enforcement, and public health care.
Critical thinking exercises include distinguishing between and evaluating fact and non-fact in advertising of tobacco and alcohol products.  Here are some classroom exercises.
Intercom messages, audio or video, can be made daily to highlight the campaign activities and deliver the message of the harmful effects of drug use.
 

FAITH DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Pass out Red Ribbons to members of your Congregation.
Encourage your church to emphasize the Red Ribbon Week Campaign with special messages, sermons, and prayers.
Conduct a session on spirituality and substance abuse.
Provide information on substance abuse prevention, counseling and treatment resources available in your community.
Plan FUN, drug-free youth group activities.
 

REACH OUT DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Make sure your neighbors, and classmates wear Red Ribbons.
Ask your local mall to participate by passing our Red Ribbons.
Visit local nursing homes to share with them your hopes of a drug-free future and how Red Ribbon Week helps to achieve that goal.
Serve as a volunteer at a Red Ribbon Week event, give your time and energy to this cause.
Say at least 3 positive things to someone. Reach out to a newcomer, involve them in the Red Ribbon Week campaign for their new community. Take 5 minutes to actively listen to your child.
Take 5 minutes of your child's time to express clearly your stand on the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Share drug prevention messages and encourage others to do the same.
Give someone a bow, lapel pin, ribbon, or button to wear.
 

WEAR RED RALLY DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Wear Red face paint
Have a crazy red hat contest
Wear red socks to show you're socking it to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, decorate white socks with red ribbons.
Give an award to the class covered with the most red, award the class with the most people with red clothing, other than their red ribbons or bracelets, give them red candy as awards.
Don't miss a chance to parade in your Red Attire. Plan a parade in the halls, in the street around your school, down Main Street in your town, around the football field, show people that you are down on drug use in our community.
Have a rally at school, invite all the parents and neighbors.
Have a block rally in your neighborhood, dress the block red.
Have a rally at city hall, invite the entire community, include marching bands, cheerleaders, drill teams, and drug prevention speakers. Your Mayor can issue the Red Ribbon Week Proclamation for your town.
Encourage the media to visit your Red Ribbon Week Activities and share the drug prevention message with the rest of the community and state.
Dress your school in Red - make red construction paper window panes for all your windows.
 

PLEDGE DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Design your school's or class pledge card, make sure everyone has a chance to sign one.
Make family pledge cards, send them home to be signed by a parent, collect them and send them to your State Representative or Senator. Take a stand against drugs.
Put a banner on the walls in the halls at school or in the cafeteria, encourage everyone to sign a drug-free pledge and their names. Show the world that you are proud to be drug-free.
Designate locations at schools and businesses for people to sign their pledges.
Deliver the signed pledges cards and banners to your principal, mayor, legislator, and clergymen.
Have a contest to see which class/school can sign the most pledges. Invite the media to help you judge and share the information in the news.
Make pledges to be drug-free into links in a mile-long, block-long, hall-long chain, to demonstrate unity in your community against the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
Write essays, poems, letters to editors, and short stories explaining what being drug-free means to you and your future. Describe a drug-free world and the differences your own children could have.
Have a contest to name as many drug-free activities as you can. Healthy choices are smart choices, "COME WITH ME AND BE DRUG FREE".
 

RECOGNITION DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Give special recognition awards to individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to tobacco, alcohol and other drug use prevention as a part of Red Ribbon Week and on-going in the community.
Create a Red Ribbon Hall of Fame, designate a special wall or create a scrapbook, plaque or place to display pictures of individuals, groups, businesses, and agencies who have made significant contributions to prevention efforts.
Recognize all the classes or individuals who have won the special Red Ribbon Week contests you have conducted during the campaign, even if they have already received their awards, include them in your list again.
Do not forget your teachers and administrators, recognize the time and energy they spent making Red Ribbon Week a success, let the media know about your extra special staff.
Moms and Dads need recognition too, take time to thank them for being drug-free, or pledging to be drug-free, and for making your home a safe place to live.
Write thank you letters to businesses in your community for celebrating Red Ribbon Week and setting strong role models for students in your town.
Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done and make a commitment to get the drug prevention message out every day of the year.
 

SPORTS DAY
Wear a Red Ribbon
Distribute lapel pins or ribbons to marching band members to wear at the football game.
Put red stickers on the football helmets of each player and ribbons on the coaches and referees.
Cheerleaders create original drug-free cheers, teach the fans, wear red ribbons, make huge "run-through" paper signs for the team.
Decorate the grandstands with red crepe paper, display your winning contest posters on easels on the field during half-time.
Have a parade before the game or during half-time, carry drug prevention banners, include your school's clubs and other organizations which have contributed and pledged to be drug-free.
Invite your fellow school students to join you in the parade to demonstrate the strength of your commitment to be drug-free.
Start your parade a mile from the stadium, for "I'd walk a mile to be drug-free", invite the media to cover the walk.
Light candles at half-time, turn off the lights, and spend a moment of silence to remember those students who have lost their lives to drugs or the drug use of others, repeat your pledge to be drug-free,
Include all fall sports, soccer, volleyball, cross-country track, and wrestling in your celebration of the Red Ribbon Week Campaign.

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Tar Wars poster deadline is May 17!