Welcome to The PRIDE Curriculum

Preventive, Resilient, & Inclusive Drug Education

Our PRIDE Curriculum, which is part of both the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, and the Cannabis Awareness & Preventitive Toolkit is a 4-lesson evidence-based curriculum on nicotine/tobacco and cannabis created by the Stanford REACH Lab in collaboration with our Youth Action Board, educators, healthcare providers, and scientists across the U.S.

Introduction to the Curriculum and General Information

The PRIDE Curriculum includes a middle and high school program that are 4 lessons, approximately 50 minutes each.

Every lesson provides activitiesonline quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentationsresources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette and cannabis use, including changing adolescents’ attitudes towards and misperceptions about e-cigarettes and cannabis; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of flavors, marketing, and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to e-cigarette and cannabis initiation and use; improving coping; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all products.

These 4 in-class sessions are reinforced outside of the classroom with follow-up discussion guides that provide open-ended questions and activities for youth to discuss various e-cigarette and cannabis related topics with a trusted adult and/or peer in order to open dialogue between youth and adults. The curriculum is meant to reach all youth, including those at highest risk of tobacco use, racial/ethnic minorities, students in continuation and alternative schools, and those identifying as LGBTQ+.

The goals of this curriculum are for adolescents to:

Increase their knowledge about e-cigarettes and cannabis and the harms they can cause.

Gain awareness of strategies manufacturers and sellers of e-cigarettes and cannabis employ to increase use among adolescents, such as deceptive and creative marketing strategies.

Gain skills to refuse experimentation and use of e-cigarettes and cannabis.

Ultimately, to reduce and prevent use of nicotine, cannabis/THC, and/or non-nicotine product use.