Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy Lifestyles is a 10-lesson curriculum for middle school age youth with the goal of helping youth make healthy decisions consistent with their individual values when faced with challenges related to marijuana use. Trusted adult facilitators lead youth through a series of engaging activities and interactive materials that provide balanced information and encourage youth to consider for themselves what marijuana is and how it can impact their life. The content is based on prevention research, input from youth-serving providers, and from youth themselves.
Partner Organizations will receive:
Training on curriculum facilitation.
Healthy Lifestyles site license.
Curriculum kit with all needed implementation supplies.
Technical support from Alaska Afterschool Network staff.
Refill supplies for curriculum kit as needed for continued implementation.
Partner Organizations will be required to:
Implement the 10 lessons within the fiscal year of the signed Memorandum of Agreement.
Ensure the curriculum is led by staff member trained by the Alaska Afterschool Network.
Turn in attendance from each lesson to the Network after full implementation.
Turn in student evaluations of youth who attended 6 or more lessons to the Network after full implementation.
Provide periodic implementation status updates to Network staff as requested.
Healthy Lifestyles was created by the YESS Institute and the Denver Afterschool Alliance as a modern approach to empowering youth in a post-legalized world.