Resources

Resources for Parents

• Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes
• Get Smart: Talking to Your Child When You Suspect Drug Use
• Family Checkup: Introduction

Resources for Students

• Quitting e-cigarettes
• For Teens: Drug Use and the Brain
• Presentation for Youth | Electronic Cigarettes | Smoking & Tobacco Use
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Drug Use: What's the Connection?
• Can Too Much "Screen Time" Change Your Brain?
• Drug Facts Challenge!
• Kahoot! Games on Drugs and Alcohol
• Is There a Connection Between Missing Sleep and Using Drugs?
• Myth or Fact? "Marijuana Is Stronger These Days"
• Videos: Exploring Drug Effects
• Live Vape Free

Resources for Educators

• Webinars and Events
• What We Do Youth smoking and vaping prevention
• Operation Prevention
• Neuroscience: The Learning Brain and BrainLink
• E-Cigs/Vapes & Pod-Based | Tobacco Prevention Toolkit | Stanford Medicine
• 13 lessons on Alcohol, Opioids/Fentanyl, Psychedelics, and other drugs | Stanford Medicine
• CATCH My Breath E-Cigarette & JUUL Prevention

• Lessons from the Field Webinar Series *

Resources for the Community

• An Alternative to Teen Nicotine Suspension or Citation
• Youth.gov Substance Abuse Prevention
• Opioid Misuse Prevention: Strategies for Staying Ahead of the Trends
• Exchange Lab: Tobacco Education Resources from the FDA
• How alcohol affects the developing brain
• How marijuana affects the developing brain 
• E-cigarettes and vaping
• What is a fentapill?
• Treatment Centers Resources 

Resources about Fentanyl

• Knowing the Facts About Fentanyl (U.S. Department of Education) 
• What Every Parent and Caregiver Needs to Know About Fake Pills (DEA)
• One Pill Can Kill (DEA)
• Fentanyl Fact Sheet (DEA)
• Operation Prevention, (DEA)
• Stop Overdose (CDC)
• Victims Of Illicit Drugs (VOID)
• Dead On Arrival (Dominic Tierno) [Video]
• Get Smart About Drugs 
• Prevention Support Resources (Get Smart)
• Operation Prevention
• Just Think Twice
•  Campus Drug Prevention
• Hotline Numbers Resource Card
• Monitoring the Future
• Song for Charlie
• Fake Pill Awareness Middle School & High School Toolkit
• Real Talk About Fentanyl: College Tool kit
• Youth Fentanyl Survey – Fall 2022
• SFC Fentanyl Fight Club
• The Real Deal on Fentanyl
• Drop the F* Bomb

Networking - Partnerships

Collaborations

ACPS values networking and building partnerships to support drug education in schools. Partners help by means of technical support, consultation, funding, and more. Substance Abuse Counselors Network for resources and building partnerships to coordinate and conduct substance abuse prevention (TIER1)

• SAPCA
• FACE
• SCAN
• Alexandria City. Youth Development Program
• Juvenile District Relations Court
• Curriculum Design & Instructional Services/Health, PE, & Family Life Education (FLE)

On a regular basis SA counselors participate in committees and meetings to include:

• The Opioid Work Group
• Children & Youth Master Plan 
• Gang Prevention Program
• Attendance Review Panel
• Disciplinary Panel
• Training: design and implementation of Canvas courses to staff about alcohol and other drugs.