Project ALERT Training
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| Topic | Lesson Summary | Length* | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Lesson 1 | Introduces Project ALERT to students, sets the tone for the program, and clarifies reasons why people do and don't use substances. | 35 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 2 | Motivates students to resist substance use by having them identify immediate and later consequences of vaping and smoking nicotine and marijuana; and increases students' perceptions that using nicotine and marijuana impacts their daily lives and social relationships. | 15 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 3 | Identifies reasons why people drink alcohol; demonstrates similarities between drinking and marijuana; presents how alcohol is used to cover feelings; discusses consequences of drinking; and brainstorms alternatives to drinking. | 23 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 4 | Marks the transition into the skill-building section of the curriculum; helps students resist pressures to use drugs by identifying what the different pressures are and where they come from; and counters the belief that 'everyone uses' with up-to-date survey information indicating that most teenagers do not use substances. | 12 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 5 | Provides the first example of the modeling - practice - feedback strategy used throughout the curriculum; identifies social pressures to use drugs; and teaches resistance skills and facilitates saying 'no' in social situations. | 11 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 6 | Identifies internal pressures to use drugs; and students discuss and practice resistance techniques for internal and external pressures. | 5 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 7 | Facilitates practice of resisting external pressures to use drugs; presents additional ways to resist pressure; and encourages students to openly express feelings of being capable of resisting internal pressures. | 10 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 8 | Explains the safe, legal use of prescription opioids, and other prescription drugs, and explains how misuse can become addictive or life-threatening; presents information on brain functioning and how to promote brain health; and provides students with resistance skills and self-efficacy to refuse and resist the misuse of prescription drugs. | 11 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 9 | Reinforces earlier lessons by reviewing resistance techniques and facilitating resistance practice; and introduces the concept of benefits from not using drugs. | 15 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 10 | Identifies why it is hard to quit vaping/smoking; offers techniques for quitting and changing general behavior. | 12 minutes | |
| Core Lesson 11 | Reviews and reinforces negative consequences of using drugs; motivates resistance by reviewing benefits of not using drugs; and elicits written commitments from students. | 10 minutes | |
| Booster Lesson 1 | Re-introduces Project ALERT; reviews consequences of nicotine, marijuana, alcohol; reviews the safe use of prescription medications and risks of misuse; and reviews sources of pressure. | 11 minutes | |
| Booster Lesson 2 | Reviews concept of external and internal pressures; and students prepare and act out pressure skits. | 5 minutes | |
| Booster Lesson 3 | Reviews the advantages of resistance and discusses how friends can help each other resist pressure. | 5 minutes |
* Average length to complete training module.