Drug Education Teacher Booklet

For more information see positivechoices.org.au Drugs & Alcohol: What You Need to Know 15 PROGRAM Resilient Families TARGETED DRUGS Drugs (General) STUDENT YEAR LEVEL Years 7-8 LEVEL OF INTERVENTION Universal ORIGIN Australia FORMAT The program is comprehensive, involving the following components: 1. School Planning and Staff Training. Resilient Families staff meet with school leadership to plan program and policy objectives. A professionally facilitated 'staff development' half-day training session is provided to explore the benefits of working with parents and to examine potential problems and solutions. 2. Student Social Relationship Curriculum. Teachers participate in a half- day training session that provides guidance in the delivery of a 10-session curriculum that can be flexibly placed within the school’s health and wellbeing, or pastoral care program. The curriculum includes social relationship homework that students complete with their parents. 3. Quiz Night (plus distribution of book). In schools that consider themselves ready for this, parents are brought together in the school for a professionally led interactive evening. 4. Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience. An 8-week professionally facilitated program for parents run at the school (2 hours per evening). PROGRAM EFFECTS Reduced use of alcohol and reduced progression to frequent or heavy use Reduced general substance use (inhalants, cannabis, tobacco, alcohol) Reduced delinquent behaviour (physical fights, graffiti, truancy, property damage) Reduced adolescent-parent conflict AVAILABLE For contact information, please visit: positivechoices.org.au/teachers/resilient-families-program