EDUCATORS
Resources for Educators to help with teaching about vaping prevention for youth.
TUPE Curriculum
Curriculum PRE-Survey – Student
Curriculum POST-Survey – Student
The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is recommended by the TUPE grant for grades 9th-12th. The CATCH My Breath Curriculum is recommended by the TUPE Grant for grades 5th-8th. CATCH My Breath Videos were purchased for grades 6th and 7th/8th. Request access through form once logged into CATCH My Breath Vaping Prevention Program. However, all resources in both programs do have information for 6th-12th grades and can be used as needed.
Please do the Pre Survey with students prior to implementing the curriculum in the classroom. Follow-up with the Post Survey with students once lessons are completed.
You and Me, Together Vape-Free Curriculum
6 Lessons, each providing activites, online quiz games and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at preventing and reducing e-cigarette use.
The Stanford Cannabis/Marijuana Awareness & Prevention Toolkit
Our new Smart Talk: Cannabis Prevention & Awareness Curriculum, which is part of the Stanford Cannabis Awareness & Prevention Toolkit, is a 5-lesson theory-based and evidence-informed curriculum created by the Stanford REACH Lab as well as by our Youth Action Board, educators, healthcare providers, and scientists across the U.S.
TUPE Canvas Courses
In collaboration with the California Department of Education, the Orange County Department of Education’s TUPE Capacity Building Project has developed a variety of courses focused on effective TUPE program implementation and informative tobacco prevention resources.
CATCH My Breath
This evidence-based program was shown to substantially reduce students’ likelihood of vaping in the year following program implementation. Students also showed a significant increase in knowledge of the dangers of vaping and an increase in positive perceptions about choosing a vape-free lifestyle.
Exclusive grade-level video lessons available for SLO county teachers available following registration
CA Healthy Kids Resources Center
The CA Healthy Kids Resources Center provides access to educational resources that can be borrowed at no cost, including curricula, books, video, and audio.
California Health Framework
The primary purpose of this website and the Health Education Framework is to offer guidance to teachers of health education that will assist them in addressing significant changes to health instruction as reflected in the 2008 Health Education Standards, as well as more recent key initiatives and legislation.
Watch the Music Notes Anti-Vaping Presentation
This presentation is paid for by the San Luis Obispo County TUPE Grant for students in 6th-8th grades to view. Please email tupe@slocoe.org if you do not have the password.
Intervention – Alternative to Suspension
The CDE encourages the use of Alternatives to Suspension and Expulsion (ATSE), which are approaches to addressing violations of tobacco-free policies that are more effective and equitable than suspending or expelling students.
ATSE are evidence-informed restorative disciplinary practices which foster accountability and help youth understand the harms of tobacco-use and vaping. Intervention strategies can help move students towards quitting or reducing tobacco/cannabis products.
The following curriculum options are available:
Healthy Futures: self-paced/group courses
YVAPE: phone counseling/videos
INDEPTH – interactive facilitator-led/self-paced programs
Tobacco-Use Prevention, YVAPE, and Alternatives to Suspension and Expulsion Letter from CDE State Superintendent
Tony Thurmond, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction recommends schools use the tobacco-free campus policies which have the additional benefit of addressing student use of marijuana through vaping and provides information on alternatives to suspension in the clickable letter above.
Healthy Futures
To get started:
1) Provide your student with your teacher code (from the data dashboard)
2) Provide your student with this direct URL to the course
3) (Optional) The handbook is embedded into the course digitally, but you can print the handbook if you want.
4) Staff and Student receive Certificate of Completion after student completes course and post survey. (Staff can see the certificate on the “profile” page of the data dashboard).
My Healthy Futures - Nicotine
Alternative-to-Suspension curriculum geared for students who have been caught using nicotine products, e-cigarettes, or any tobacco products and/or for any student who is interested in trying to reduce or quit nicotine use.
Sequence: Self-paced course (40-60 mins) for students. Available in Spanish.
The self-contained course includes check-for-understanding questions, as well as embedding the student handbook into the online course. It also prevents students from skipping any content or videos, ensuring that they take the entire course.
Grades: 6th through 12th
Enrollment: Staff will enroll in the data dashboard from REACH Lab (see info above). Staff will assign the course to the students and give the student the following:
- URL for the My Healthy Futures Nicotine Course
- Staff person’s teacher ID from the REACH Lab Data Dashboard
- Student course workbook (print two-sided). Folding Workbook Video
Our Healthy Futures - Nicotine
Alternative-to-Suspension curriculum can be taught with just one student or in a group setting. It allows for warm-up questions interspersed between slides that allow students to share what they know about each topic. Best to use if needed after a student completed My Healthy Futures-Nicotine.
Sequence: 2 or 4 Hour Facilitator Guided
2-Hour Version: Group or 1-1 with warm-up questions for students to share knowledge of the topic. 4-Hour Version: Group or 1-1 with more time for personal reflection on each topic.
Grades: 6th through 12th
Enrollment: 2-Hour Version or 4-Hour Version
My Healthy Futures - Cannabis
Alternative-to-Suspension curriculum geared for students who have been caught using cannabis and/or cannabis products and for any students who are interested in trying to quit.
Sequence: Self-paced course (40-60 mins) for students.
Grades: 6th through 12th
Enrollment: Staff will enroll in the data dashboard from REACH Lab (see info above). Staff will assign the course to the students and give the student the following:
- URL for the My Healthy Futures Nicotine Course
- Staff person’s teacher ID from the REACH Lab Data Dashboard
- Student course workbook (print two-sided). Folding Workbook Video
Our Healthy Futures - Cannabis
Alternative-to-Suspension curriculum can be taught with just one student or in a group setting. It allows for warm-up questions interspersed between slides that allow students to share what they know about each topic. Best to use if needed after a student completed My Healthy Futures-Cannabis.
Sequence: 2 or 4 Hour Facilitator Guided
2-Hour Version: Group or 1-1 with warm-up questions for students to share knowledge of the topic. 4-Hour Version: Group or 1-1 with more time for personal reflection on each topic.
Grades: 6th through 12th
Enrollment: 2-Hour Version or 4-Hour Version
YVAPE and INDEPTH
YVAPE
The Youth Vaping Alternative Program Education (YVAPE) is a FREE educational intervention program that serves as an alternative to suspension, providing phone and video coaching support to students 12 years and older who have been found with nicotine or marijuana at school.
Sequence: Two 20-minute counseling sessions and 30-60 minutes of videos and discussion
Grades: 6th (age 12+) through 12th
Enrollment: YVAPE services are provided for FREE. Consent required by school administrator, student and parent. YVAPE can be used as an intervention and is not considered a cessation program.
🔗PDF: How does YVAPE work? (Spanish)
Please use Kick it CA for Cessation Services.
INDEPTH
Intervention for Nicotine Dependence: Education, Prevention, Tobacco and Health (INDEPTH) was developed by the American Lung Association in partnership with the Prevention Research Center of West Virginia University. INDEPTH is an interactive program that teaches students about nicotine dependence, establishing healthy alternatives and how to move past nicotine addiction.
Sequence: Four 50-minute sessions
Grades: Middle (7/8) and high school (9-12)
students
Enrollment: School staff can become a facilitator to use the program for 1-1 and group work with students. Click here for training opportunities to become a facilitator for INDEPTH. The 1-Hour Online Training is FREE and has a 3-year Certification upon completion. The facilitator can then offer 1-1 or group sessions for students who face suspension for violation of school tobacco use policies.
Youth Development
Friday Night Live
Friday Night Live SLO supports our local schools in youth development through middle and high school chapters. Friday Night Live programs utilize a Youth Development Framework, in which adults and youth work together, in partnership, towards programming that is youth-led and youth-driven. Youth Development is the ongoing process in which youth are engaged in building the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences that prepare them for the present and future.
California Youth Advocacy Network
Training and technical assistance to individuals, organizations, and coalitions advocating for tobacco-free communities
No Barriers
No Barriers has a number of courses, each designed to entice growth and development within the people who face adversity on a daily basis. Everyone from our youth, to our veterans face seemingly impossible barriers, but it’s how you overcome them that truly defines you.
Here’s your chance to become the master of your own destiny and take on a course that teaches you how to overcome barriers, view challenges in a new light and join a community of inspirational people who have faced adversity time and time again!
You’ve just got to decide which course is for you!
TUPE Videos
TUPE Games
smokeSCREEN
smokeSCREEN: A smoking and vaping prevention videogame on a mission to prevent youth smoking and vaping
Beatnic Boulevard
Introducing BeatNic Boulevard – San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools’ first mobile video game that teaches tobacco-use prevention education.
Get In Touch
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3350 Education Drive
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
