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 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

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

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.

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.

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

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