This section provides links to curriculum that could be used in schools as stand-alone and adjacent instructional tools to help promote positive behaviors and prevent vaping before it takes root. Resources are labeled FREE or PAY. If there are resources that should be in this section, please email Tom Lietz.
- Everfi: Anti-Vaping Curriculum/Programs for Health, Life Skills, Advisory (8-12) (FREE)
Youth e-cigarette use remains at an epidemic level. This prevention-forward digital learning experience gives today’s students core knowledge around the dangers associated with using e-cigarettes and offers resources to help young people quit if they already vape. The need for vaping prevention programs is particularly timely given that a recent study showing that young people who have vaped may be more likely to test positive for coronavirus.
https://everfi.com/courses/k-12/vaping-programs-for-high-school-students/
- Be Vape Free: 5-12 Resources (CVS) and Content, Virtual Field Trips, and Parent Resources (FREE)
The Be Vape Free initiative is a confluence of like-minded organizations who have joined forces to tackle the use of e-cigarettes among our nation’s youth through the creation and distribution of engaging content for grades 5–12 on the risks of e-cigarettes. By leveraging partner resources and working together as a collaborative initiative, we hope to keep students informed on the long-term health risks of vaping. Join our mission to provide educators and pharmacists with the tools to keep students informed in the classroom, and the evidence-based programs that will lead students to make healthy, smart decisions for life.
Https://Bevapefree.org
- US Health and Human Services Tobacco Education Resource Library: Curriculum, Content and Resources for School and Community (FREE)
Access free resources for teachers, students, and parents to learn more about the dangers of vaping nicotine. This includes lesson plans focused on the latest science-based vaping prevention information from FDA including: Learning outcomes mapped to national standards, subjects including health risks and market tactics, and easily accessible online evaluations of students.
https://digitalmedia.hhs.gov/tobacco/educator_hub
- Michigan Model for Health Marijuana and Tobacco Curriculum: K-12 (FREE)
The Michigan Model for HealthTM is an evidence-based and comprehensive health education curriculum. MMH motivates and empowers Pre-K through 12th grade students through building skills to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors while creating a partnership between homes, schools, communities and government.
https://www.michiganmodelforhealth.org/news-releases/blog/marijuana-and-tobacco-grk-12-mmh-curriculum-updates
- American Heart Association Tobacco Free School Toolkit:
This toolkit was designed to help school districts respond to the youth tobacco/ vaping epidemic.The toolkit assists schools in creating a tobacco-free environment that helps prevent students from using tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, and support students who need help quitting. The toolkit includes model language for the adoption, implementation and enforcement of a 100% tobacco-free school district policy.Also included are recommendations for evidence-informed programs to educate students about the dangers of tobacco, provide alternatives to suspension when a student is found using a tobacco or nicotine product, and offer tobacco cessation strategies for youth.
https://www2.heart.org/site/DocServer/AHA_Tobacco-Free_Schools_Toolkit.pdf
- Catch My Breath: Vaping Prevention Program (PAY)
CATCH My Breath’s peer-led teaching approach empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape. Informed by tobacco youth prevention researchers and practitioners, years of real world implementation, and a youth advisory board, it is the only school-based vaping prevention program proven to reduce the likelihood of vaping among youth.
https://catch.org/program/vaping-prevention