Answer, Rutgers University While learning about the latest trends in teen contraceptive use, you will leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of contraceptive methods and how to develop and teach lessons that are designed to help reduce rates of unintended...
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STD Basics
Answer, Rutgers University Are you up to date with the statistics? Do you teach about STDs, but find it dry and boring? This workshop will help increase your general knowledge of STDs and your ability to develop compelling ways to pass this information to young people...
LGBTQ Issues In Schools
Answer, Rutgers University LGBTQ Issues in Schools is an interactive, self-paced online workshop for middle and high school health professionals to increase their knowledge of LGBTQ issues and how to make the school environment more inclusive for all students
Boys and Sex Ed: Beyond Statistics and Stereotypes
Answer, Rutgers University Forty-nine percent of boys have had sexual intercourse by the time they finish high school. One in four has an STD. Yet, sex-ed largely still focuses on the needs of girls. How do we teach in ways that resonate with all students, regardless...
Understand the Big Deal: How Marijuana Harms Youth Presentation
Colorado Department of Education, Dr. Thustone, 2012 This presentation highlights how marijuana affects children and their ability to learn.
Understand the Big Deal: How Marijuana Harms Youth Fact Sheet
Colorado Department of Education, Dr. Thustone, 2012 This fact sheet highlights how marijuana affects children and their ability to learn.
A Practitioner’s Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014 This guide offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their...
Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis
Executive Office of the President of the United States, 2011 This Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Plan expands upon the Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy and includes action in four major areas to reduce prescription drug abuse: education, monitoring,...
Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011 This document provides basic facts on prescription painkiller overdose in the U.S. and CDC policy recommendations to prevent it.
Opioid Overdose: Preventing and reducing opioid overdose mortality
UN Office on Drugs and Crime and World Health Organization, 2013 This discussion paper outlines the facts about opioid overdose (responsible for 70000 to 100,000 deaths worldwide each year), the actions that can be taken to prevent and treat (reverse) opioid overdose...