- Tier: Tier 1: Positive mental health promotion
- Category of intervention: Alcohol and drug education
- Strength of evidence: Level 4: Established evidence for program (supported by quality research evidence)
- Geographic location: Statewide
Program description
Schools of Substance is an online program offering professional development modules to ensure effective drug education is supported by the whole school community.
Student outcomes are improved where teaching, wellbeing staff and parents understand and support effective education and prevention programs.
A range of half-day professional development programs are offered to upskill teachers and student wellbeing staff, and 90-minute information sessions for parents and school communities. These sessions complement the delivery of evidence-based education programs like OurFutures, and can help to ensure that alcohol and drug prevention programs benefit from integration in wider school resilience and social connection initiatives.
Intended outcomes
- Increased teacher and wellbeing staff understanding of alcohol and drug use
- Increased ability to integrate effective strategies to reduce use, reduce harm and use effective communication
- Reduced student alcohol and other drug use
- Reduced alcohol and other drug related problems for students
Program details
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| Program provider | 360Edge/Our Futures Institute |
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Implementation considerations
- Target population: Primary and secondary school leadership, teaching and wellbeing staff and parents/carers.
- Program adaptability: A needs assessment and risk assessment prior to policy revision allows 360Edge/Our Futures to ensure work is tailored to the school and community needs.
- Staffing: Backfilling is not required.
- Training requirements: Education and training sessions may require access to the web and ability to run teleconference software (Zoom or MS Teams).
- Factors to consider: For staff education and training programs, workshops can be provided flexibly (i.e. time of day, and whether face to face, in person, or blended). Teacher and staff programs are provided over half a day and multiple sessions can be provided depending on need and size of training cohort.
- Australian context: The programs have been developed, evaluated and delivered across Australia.
Cost
Minimum cost
$2,000+
Detailed cost
The program costs $2,750 (including GST).
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