Healthy Futures, an Alternative-to-Suspension program, developed by the Stanford REACH Lab
This program is geared for students who have been caught using cannabis and/or cannabis products and for any students who are interested in trying to quit. This program is packed with a self-paced lesson, a group 2- or 4-hour teacher or counselor-led curriculum, quitting resources, and more!!
While we know time is limited, the best course of action is for students to first complete the MY Healthy Futures on their own, followed by some teacher-student interaction using the OUR Healthy Futures. Of course, feel free to add additional lessons from our Smart Talk: Cannabis Awareness & Prevention Curriculum if desired.
As a best practice, we would recommend that our curriculum be used as an educational opportunity in lieu of a suspension (alternative to suspension) for first time offenses, but if your policies/procedures require a student to be suspended (and those policies cannot be amended), we would strongly encourage you to provide our Healthy Futures intervention as an educational support in addition to the suspension.
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The MY Healthy Futures Course is a 40-60 minute self-paced course for students to do on their own.
This course provides slides, activities, and interactive materials, using the principals of motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral therapy, to help students understand the harms of cannabis, health effects on the body, stress and coping, and resources to quit.
OUR Healthy Futures Curriculum has two versions: a two- and a four-hour version. The two-hour version can be facilitated with just one student or in a group setting. It allows for warm-up questions interspersed between slides that allow students to share what they know about each topic.
The four-hour version builds on the two-hour version by allowing time for personal reflection following each topic. This version allows for more individual introspection and group discussion (if done in a group setting).
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