L.E.A.D.’s In the Classroom Curricula and Summary
L.E.A.D.’S TOO GOOD CURRICULUM
- Too Good puts social and emotional learning to work through fun and interactive lessons, building the self-confidence young people need to make healthy choices and achieve success
- Lessons build a foundation of skills and knowledge to prepare students to resist problem behaviors
- Prevention education is a coordinated effort but the school, family, and community
- Too Good curriculum is available from Kindergarten through high school
- When community leaders reinforce positive norms, the message is even stronger!
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
- Social and emotional development is a child’s ability to understand the feelings of others, control his or her own feelings and behaviors, get along with other children, and build relationships with adults
- In order for children to develop basic skills they need such as cooperation, following directions, demonstrating self-control and paying attention, they must have social-emotional skills
- Positive social and emotional skills is important throughout life and can have an impact on how children function at home, school and in the community
- When young children are faced with social, emotional or behavioral challenges it can impact their chances for school success and healthy relationships
- A child’s positive relationship with trusting and caring adults is the key to successful emotional and social development
REINFORCING POSITIVE NORMS
WITH KNOWLEDGE OF DRUG ABUSE
- Children look to adults to set or reinforce normative expectations
- You make the lessons and concepts come alive!
- You have an opportunity to model health behavior when you interact with children
- You can encourage children that drug use is unacceptable
- Reinforcing Positive Norms with Knowledge of Drug Abuse
L.E.A.D.
Narcan
- Narcan (Naloxone) is a prescription medicine that blocks the effects of ipods and reverses an overdose
- It cannot be used to get a person high. If given to person who has not taken opioids, it will not have any effect on him or her, since there is no opioid overdose to reverse
- Naloxone is a pure opioid antagonist. It works by reversing the depression fo the central nervous system caused by and opioid.
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- From 1996 through June 2014, organizations that provide community-based overdose prevention services, including provisions of Naloxone to laypersons, recorded more than 26,000 opioid overdose reversals in the United States.
- In the first 8-weeks of 2017, the number of Naloxone prescriptions written by physicians increased 340% compared to the same 8-week period in 2016. The number of physicians prescribing Naloxone has also increased 4765% over the same time period.
- When states enact laws to increase access to Naloxone, there is a “9 to 11% reduction in opioid-related deaths.”
- More than 1,200 law enforcement programs in the United States now supply Naloxone to their personnel-resulting in thousands of lives saved.
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Treatment
2017 National Survey
on Drug Use & Health
- An estimated 20.7 million people aged 12 or older needed substance use treatment
- This translates to about 1 in 12 people needing treatment
- Among young adults aged 18 to 25, however, about 1 in 7 needed treatment
Summary
L.E.A.D. Educators are able to:
- Define psychoactive substances and substance abuse
- Identify connections between the Too Good curriculum and positive behaviors taught to children
- Gain an understanding about common drugs and their humanistic effects on individuals and communities
- Understand the role of Narcan in combatting opioid overdose epidemic and understand the need for long-term treatment