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Lessons: Grades K-1

  • Introduction - Making healthy decisions (The Health and Opioid-Abuse Prevention Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/The-HOPE-Curriculum.)

  • Lesson 1 – Difference between food/candy, medicines and household products

  • Lesson 2 – Tobacco products, how they can be harmful, and how to avoid them

  • Lesson 3 – Identifying trusted adults

Lessons: Grade 2

  • Lesson 1 – How to use medicines safely

  • Lesson 2 – Non-drug ways of treating minor pain or injuries

  • Lesson 3 – Introduction to refusal skill steps

  • Lesson 4 – Opportunity to practice refusal skills

  • Lesson 5 – Demonstrating communication skills and refusal skills

Lessons: Grade 3

  • Lesson 1 – How medicines can be harmful if not used properly

  • Lesson 2 – Examine how household products can be harmful

  • Lesson 3 – Dangers of tobacco and skills for resisting pressure to start

  • Lesson 4 -  Interpersonal communication skills to make healthy choices

Lessons: Grade 4

  • Introductory Lesson – Healthy and unhealthy choices (The Health and Opioid-Abuse Prevention Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/The-HOPE-Curriculum.)

  • Lesson 1 – Understanding medicine labels

  • Lesson 2 – Impact of drugs

  • Lesson 3 – Tobacco and its effect on health

  • Lesson 4 – Family values related to smoking

Lessons: Grade 5

  • Lesson 1 – Skills to resist peer pressure

  • Lesson 2 – Analyze factors that influence people to decide to use tobacco or not

  • Lesson 3 – Analyzing alcohol messages

  • Lesson 4 – Applying communication skills 

  • Lesson 5 – Analyzing influences

Lessons: Grade 6

  • Introductory Lesson – OTC Safety (The Health and Opioid-Abuse Prevention Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/The-HOPE-Curriculum.)

  • Lesson 1 – Knowledge on why people use drugs and decision-making model

  • Lesson 2 – Decision-making model and analyzing influences

  • Lesson 3 – Addiction, dependency & decision-making process

  • Lesson 4 – Applying the decision-making model

  • Lesson 5 -  Peer pressure, bullying, analyzing influences and decision-making

Lessons: Grade 7

  • Lesson 1 – Benefits of being alcohol and other drug-free

  • Lesson 2 – Addiction and supporting people trying to quit

  • Lesson 3 – Access valid and reliable health information related to seeking help around addiction

  • Lesson 4 – Tobacco cessation products and services

  • Lesson 5 - Accessing information and advocacy skills.

Lessons: Grade 8

  • Introductory Lesson - Influences (The Health and Opioid-Abuse Prevention Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/The-HOPE-Curriculum.)

  • Lesson 1 – Personal, social, legal and health consequences

  • Lesson 2 – Health risks and healthy alternatives

  • Lesson 3 – Decision-making model

  • Lesson 4 – Advocacy

Lessons: High School

  • Lesson 1 - Addiction

  • Lesson 2 - Proper Use of Prescription and OTC Medicines

  • Lesson 3 - Opioid Abuse Prevention

  • Lesson 4 - Getting Help

  • Lesson 5 – Advocacy

  • All high school lessons from HOPE (The Health and Opioid-Abuse Prevention Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/The-HOPE-Curriculum.)

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