Vaping and Juuling: In His Own Words
We are excited to announce the release of our newest course: Vaping and Juuling: In His Own Words. In this course, students will connect with and learn from 23-year-old Tanner who shares his story of nicotine addiction and how electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) have played a role. He also shares what students need to know to make healthy choices to say no to today's vape culture.
Substance Abuse - 60+ Separate Courses (Including Parent Companion Courses)
Our Substance Abuse course offers 39 separate modules that cover social and personal skills, as well as concrete information on specific drugs. Our social and personal skills sections help teens with refusal skills, relapse prevention, understanding drugs affect the teen brain, and the cycle of abuse. Our fact-based courses cover marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, mixing drugs, and overdoses to name a few.
These courses can be utilized in a variety of settings. They can be used for general substance abuse training, court mandated drug prevention, or as an alternative to suspension or expulsion.
Approximate Completion Time: Completion time varies depending on the number of sections required to complete. The entire course typically takes 1 week to complete.
Parent Companion Courses
All of our courses have a parent companion course. These courses help parents understand what their child is learning and provides them with the tools required to engage in healthy and productive dialogue.
Getting To Know You
This course helps administrators gather IEP information regarding students and their transition plans. Information can be directly filled out by the student and used for Department of Education Requirements.
Bullying and Cyber Bullying
This course is intended to protect you, protect others, and to help all students find their healthy path.
Digital Citizenship
This course will create safety in the use of technology and outline appropriate behavior in the digital world. Includes cell phone use, texting, social media, and all facets of cyber behavior.
Self Esteem
Defines self-esteem, outlines types, discusses how to develop a stronger sense of self-esteem. Explores barriers to success, provides tools to overcome challenges and reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 27 minutes
All About Me (Elementary Level Courses)
In this course, students will provide information to school staff that allows them to develop rapport, gather classroom dynamics, and understand student self-perceptions. This course can be taken independently, as part of a group activity, as part of a classroom conversation. Best suggestion: Have student complete independently before any group discussions. It is recommended that this course is taken in 15-minute segments.
Talking to Parents and Guardians
Defines appropriate communication with grown-ups and discusses the importance of being able to verbalize thoughts, feelings, and emotions in a healthy manner. Talks about drawbacks and the loss of power when improper communication is used. Helps students get their needs met appropriately, explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 32 minutes
Anger Management
Defines anger management, discusses the importance of controlling anger, teaches the different types of anger such as passive, passive aggressive, assertive, and aggressive. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Discusses ways to implement healthier strategies, and reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 35 minutes
Truancy
Helping to keep kids in school by exploring challenges, barriers to attending, personal pitfalls, and providing ways to overcome these challenges to return, and stay in school.
Approximate Completion Time: 99 minutes
Strategies for Successful Return to School
Defines successful reintegration. Highlights potential pitfalls after having been out of school, and provides strategies to cope with such patterns in order to remain on track. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 29 minutes
Restorative Practices
Defines restorative practices, outlines types of harm, discusses the importance of creating safety in one’s environment, specifies ways in which to establish safety and trust. Teaches ways to handle negative situations, explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 27 minutes
Vision of Self
Defines vision of self, discusses, healthy versus unhealthy perspectives, teaches how to implement healthy viewpoints, discusses personal vision, outlines tools for growth. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 24 minutes
Talking to Peers
Defines appropriate communication with peers and discusses the importance of being able to work through challenging situations with peers.
Approximate Completion Time: 13 minutes
Welcome Course
Prerequisite first class for all students. Includes course instructions and mandatory disclosure.
Approximate Completion Time: 2 minutes
Learned Helplessness
Defines learned helplessness, uncovers origins of such beliefs, demonstrates how overcoming helplessness lends itself to empowerment. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 34 minutes
Self Esteem For Adults
Guides adults through student experience of Self-Esteem Course. Defines self-esteem, outlines types, discusses how to develop a stronger sense of self-esteem. Explores student barriers to success, provides tools to overcome challenges and reviews a plan for the future. Helps adults to better connect with their teen, provides talking points, areas to connect, and ideas for support.
Refusal Skills
Defines refusal skills, provides examples of various types of refusal skills to stay healthy, and discusses the importance of being able to resist negative temptations. Offers various approaches to extricating one’s self from harmful situations, and uncovers the power in being able to say, “no”. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 31 minutes
Refocus
This course is intended for in-the-moment disruptive behaviors. Students may process their feelings and learn to regulate their emotions and behaviors prior to returning to the mainstream environment.
Approximate Completion Time: 25 minutes
Putting It All Together
Reviews and collaborates all skills used in modules for a successful return to school and life. Reviews the importance of implementation, and bolsters student confidence for maximized reintegration.
Approximate Completion Time: 24 minutes
Primary and Secondary Impacts of Behavior
Defines impacts of behavior, outlines the types of impacts, discusses importance of understanding one’s effect on their world, and highlights drawback of negative impacts. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Provides suggestions for improving one’s personal impact on their world, reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 28 minutes
Motivation
Defines motivation, outlines the various types, explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Discusses ways to improve motivation, highlights the importance, reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 39 minutes
Irrational Thinking
Defines irrational thinking, demonstrates how irrational thinking may be harmful, identifies how to overcome negative patterns, teaches about teenage tendencies to think irrationally. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 20 minutes
Impulsive Decision Making
Defines impulsivity, discussed repercussions of dangerous behavior, discusses teenage tendencies, defines alternative behaviors, explores barriers to success, provides tools to overcome challenges, teaches healthy replacements, and reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 17 minutes
Healthy Communication
Defines healthy communication, discusses the importance of communicating well, teaches the different types of communication such as verbal, non-verbal, body language, and tone. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Discusses ways to implement more effective approaches, and reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 35 minutes
Adrenaline
Defines adrenaline, distinguishes between fight or flight, discusses teenage thrill-seeking, highlights the impact adrenaline has on the body, defines alternatives, explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Teaches healthy replacements, and reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 20 minutes
Avoiding Exploitation
Defines exploitation, outlines safety, and highlights pitfalls for potential dangerous relationships. Defines the various “disguises” that harmful people wear, and teaches students how to uncover those traits. Teaches students to identify the healthy traits in safe people, and hones in on how to tell the difference. Helps students to let go of any self-blame for past harmful relationships, and allows them to refocus and grow through empowerment. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 42 minutes
Black And White Thinking
Defines black and white thinking, discusses the drawbacks and tendencies of such patterns, describes healthy alternatives to dysfunctional habits, highlights the impact of limited thinking, and explores barriers to success. Provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 18 minutes
Character Traits
Defines positive character traits such as empathy, honesty, integrity, accountability, and respect. Highlights importance of strong character, explores barriers to success, provides tools to overcome challenges, and helps implement healthy traits. Reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 43 minutes
Coping Strategies
Defines coping strategies, highlights the importance, provides examples, helps to individually define skills that work for each student. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges. Teaches appropriate implementation, reviews a plan for the future.
Approximate Completion Time: 37 minutes
Cultural Implications Within Family and Learned Behavior
Defines “family”, and helps student identify those traits learned from being a part of that “family” unit. Helps expand student’s idea of family, and understand the impact of one’s household on their belief systems, norms, values, and personality. Helps students to embrace their differently held beliefs, and to resist conforming for the sake of fitting in. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 29 minutes
Future Goals
Defines what it means to have goals, and highlights the benefit of being focused. Helps the student to create a vision for one’s self, and discusses strategies to stay on task. Explores barriers to success, and provides tools to overcome challenges.
Approximate Completion Time: 48 minutes