School Drug Education and Road Aware

Resources

To purchase copies of some of these resources download this order form.

Challenges and Choices

The Challenges and Choices resources were distributed free to all schools in Western Australia. Each of the resources focuses on the essential resilience, drug and road safety content relevant to the phase of development. Further copies may be purchased using the order form.

• Challenges and Choices:
  Early childhood resource for resilience, drug and road safety education
• Challenges and Choices:
  Middle childhood resource for resilience, drug and road safety education
• Challenges and Choices:
  Early adolescence resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

Challenges and Choices: Early Childhood resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

Challenges and Choices:
Early childhood resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

• Introduction.pdf
• RDE Introduction.pdf
• Focus area 1 Promoting resilience.pdf
• Focus area 2 Medicines & hazardous substances.pdf
• Focus area 3 Tobacco & passive smoking.pdf
• Focus area 4 Caffeine.pdf
• Early childhood literature.pdf
• RDE Background information.pdf
• RSE Introduction.pdf
• Focus area 1 Passenger safety.pdf
• Focus area 2 Pedestrian safety.pdf
• Focus area 3 Playing safely.pdf
• Focus area 4 Sensing traffic.pdf
• RSE Background information.pdf
• Teaching and learning strategies.pdf

School Drug Education and Road Aware’s Challenges and Choices: Early childhood resilience, drug and road safety resource is the first in a series of Challenges and Choices resources for K-Year 10 students.

This early childhood kit focuses on the crucial resilience, drug and road safety content that students in Kindergarten to Year 3 need in order to become safer and healthier.

The content is linked to the Curriculum Council’s Curriculum Framework and the Curriculum Framework’s Curriculum Guide – Health and Physical Education.

The key focus areas in the resilience and drug education teacher resource are:

• Promoting resilience
• Medicines and hazardous substances
• Tobacco and passive smoking
• Caffeine

The key focus areas in the road safety education teacher resource are:

• Passenger safety
• Pedestrian safety
• Playing safely
• Sensing traffic

This resource is supported by a range of resilience, drug and road safety education storybooks, road sign pack, road network tablemat and a CD.

Challenges and Choices: Middle chdfildhood resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

Challenges and Choices:
Middle childhood resource for resilience and drug education

• Introduction.pdf
• Focus Area 1 Promoting resilience.pdf
• Focus Area 2 Analgesics, prescription & OTC medicines.pdf
• Focus Area 3 Tobacco and passive smoking.pdf
• Focus Area 4 Alcohol.pdf
• Focus Area 5 Caffeine.pdf
• Focus Area 6 Cannabis.pdf
• Focus Area 7 Drugs and the media.pdf
• Background information.pdf
• Teaching and learning strategies.pdf

 

Challenges and Choices:
Middle childhood resource for road safety education

• Introduction.pdf
• Focus Area 1 Passenger safety.pdf
• Focus Area 2 Pedestrian safety.pdf
• Focus Area 3 Safety on wheels.pdf
• Focus Area 4 Road rules and signs.pdf
• Background information.pdf
• Teaching and learning strategies.pdf

 

This middle childhood kit focuses on the crucial resilience, drug and road safety content that students in Years 4-7 need in order to become safer and healthier.

The content is linked to the Curriculum Council’s Curriculum Framework and the Curriculum Framework’s Curriculum Guide – Health and Physical Education.

The key focus areas in the resilience and drug education teacher resource are:

• Promoting resilience
• Analgesics, prescription and over-the-counter medicines
• Tobacco and passive smoking
• Alcohol
• Caffeine
• Cannabis
• Drugs and the media

The key focus areas in the road safety education teacher resource are:

• Passenger safety
• Pedestrian safety
• Safety on wheels
• Road rules and signs

Challenges and Choices: Early Adolescence resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

Challenges and Choices:
Early adolescence resource for resilience, drug and road safety education

• Introduction.pdf
• Focus area 1 Drug use issues.pdf
• Focus area 2 Predicting and responding to drug use risks and consequences.pdf
• Focus area 3 Road user issues.pdf
• Focus area 4 Predicting and responding to road use risks and consequences.pdf
• Focus area 5 Taking action.pdf
• Teaching and learning strategies.pdf
• Background information.pdf
• Appendix.pdf

This early adolescence kit was distributed free to all WA secondary schools in November 2007.  It focuses on the crucial resilience, drug and road safety content that students in Years 7-10 need in order to become safer and healthier.
The content is linked to the Curriculum Council’s Curriculum Framework and the Curriculum Framework’s Curriculum Guide – Health and Physical Education and the K-10 Health and Physical Education Syllabus.
The key focus areas in the teacher resource are:

• Drug use issues (typically Year 7 to 8)
• Predicting and responding to drug use risks and consequences (typically Year 8 to 9)
• Road safety issues (typically Year 7 to 8)
• Predicting and responding to road use risks and consequences (typically Year 8 to 9)
• Taking action (typically Year 9 to 10)

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Keeping In Touch

Working with Alcohol and Other Drug Use

The Keeping In Touch resource is offered on CD ROM to all participants who have attended a Keeping In Touch professional development workshop. This resource can also be downloaded by clicking here. [pdf 2.46MB]

It must be advised that this is NOT a resource for use within the curriculum but has been developed for use by school staff to work within their role to provide appropriate support to students. Attendance at Keeping In Touch professional development is recommended to gain greater insight into the content of the resource and best practice ways to apply the strategies offered.

This resource provides information which aims to:

• promote understanding and increase awareness of drug use issues and how they may impact on young people
• develop knowledge and skills in recognising students in need of support
• provide models and frameworks for responding appropriately and for supporting students through school-based interventions and referral to trained staff (within the school or externally) according to students' needs and staff competencies.

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SDEP K-12 Drug Education Teacher Support Packages

SDERA has produced a new series of resilience, drug and road safety education resources for Early Childhood, Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence, titled Challenges and Choices.

The Teacher Support Packages are no longer in print but schools can download these resources for classroom use.

• Teacher Support Package Phase 1
• Teacher Support Package Phase 2
• Teacher Support Package Phase 3
• Teacher Support Package Phase 4

TSP Phase 1

• Phase 1 Foreword - Linking drug education
• Phase 1 Background notes
• Phase 1 Activities
• Phase 1 Monitoring student progress
• Phase 1 Planning for drug education
• Phase 1 Teaching strategies

TSP Phase 2

• Phase 2 Foreword - Linking drug education
• Phase 2 Background notes
• Phase 2 Activities
• Phase 2 Monitoring student progress
• Phase 2 Planning for drug education
• Phase 2 Teaching strategies

TSP Phase 3

• Phase 3 Foreword - Linking drug education
• Phase 3 Background notes
• Phase 3 Activities
• Phase 3 Monitoring student progress
• Phase 3 Planning for drug education
• Phase 3 Teaching strategies

TSP Phase 4

• Phase 4 Foreword - Linking drug education
• Phase 4 Background notes
• Phase 4 Activities
• Phase 4 Monitoring student progress
• Phase 4 Planning for drug education
• Phase 4 Teaching strategies

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Developing a Drug Policy to Promote Health in Your School: Guidelines for Implementation

The revised and updated edition of these guidelines will be available soon.

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Leading Education About Drugs (LEAD) – Student Participatory Approaches

Leading Education About Drugs (LEAD) ia an Australian Government resource that supports teachers in utilising the active participation of students in health promotion activities which focus on preventing or minimising drug related harm. LEAD provides guidance to schools to assist them in preparing students for peer leadership roles to conduct drug education forums.

LEAD was sent to every school in WA in Week 1 Term 3, 2006 (one copy for schools with fewer than 200 students, 2 copies for schools with more than 200 students).

Leading Education about Drugs [pdf 381kb]

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Keys for Life

• A pre-driver education program
• How can schools get their own copy of the resource?
• What more do I need to know?
• Keys for Life resources

A pre-driver education program

Keys for Life has been developed with funding from the Insurance Commission of WA and support from the Road Safety Council of WA. It has been designed for young people aged 15 – 16 years (pre-drivers or novice drivers) entering the licensing system.

The main aim of the program is to develop positive road user attitudes in young people. One of the program incentives is that students can start the Learner’s Permit application process at school and redeem a Keys for Life school certificate for their Learner’s Permit. They achieve this by sitting the legitimate Learner’s Permit Theory Test at school rather than at a licensing centre.

How can schools get their own copy of the resource?

To access the resource and assist teachers deliver the Keys for Life program a one-day, fully funded workshop is offered to all schools throughout the state.

This pre-requisite ensures those teachers attending are ready to implement the program. It also fulfils an agreement with the Department for Planning and Infrastructure to ensure that the Learner’s Permit Theory Test is conducted as intended.

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What more do I need to know?

Keys for Life is based on a strong foundation of research and theory. It is also being evaluated by the University of Western Australia's School of Public Health using a group of 1,500 students from all over WA and tracking them over the next 5 years through to their P-plate driving phase.

An important part of any road safety program is to educate and work with parents. SDERA have developed a l hour parent-learner session called Keys for Life parent workshop. This session is usually run in the evening at the school and conducted by a member of the RAC Community Education team (in metro areas), a RoadWise officer (in regional areas) or a SDERA Project Officer (in regional areas). Parents/carers are invited to attend this one-off session together with their teenager who is participating in the Keys for Life program. The main aim is to learn about, plan and discuss the importance of driving practice and other road safety issues.

Resources related to the Keys for Life program are free and can only be accessed by attending a one-day Keys for Life workshop

Keys for Life resources:

• Keys for Life ordering instructions
• Keys for Life teacher resource
• Keys for Life video
• Keys for Life student journal
• Keys for Life leaner's permit theory test guide
• Drive Safe handbook
• Keys for Life supervised driving guide
• Insurance Commission of WA pamphlet
• Keys for Life course register

Students materials (ie student journal, Drive Safe handbook and supervised driving guide) and materials relating to the Learner's Permit Theory Test can only be ordered online after attending a Keys for Life workshop.

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Parent Resources

SDERA has produced road safety resources for parents and families. These resources focus on children at different ages and provide information and strategies to engage parents and families in road safety education.

• Parents/carers of 0 to 4 year old children (Smart Steps)
• Parents/carers of 4 to 12 year old children (Kindergarten to Year 7)
• Parents/carers of 13 to 15 year old children (Years 8 to 10)

Parents/carers of 0 to 4 year old children (Smart Steps)

Smart Steps is a program that aims to reduce the levels of road trauma for infants and children by supporting parents and carers of 0-4 year olds to:

• engage in safer road user practices with their children
• provide road safety education to their children.

The three major road safety risk areas for this age group include passenger safety (including child car restraints), pedestrian safety and play safety.



Resources for educators
Resources have been developed specifically for professionals who teach road safety education that address these risk areas.

A free Smart Steps road safety education kit is available for health and community agency professionals who have undertaken the one day Smart Steps training workshop and provide a service to parents/carers/families who have very young children. 

Resources for parents and carers
The Smart Steps resources offer practical ideas and things that parents and carers can do to help keep their children safer in the road environment. 

Parents and carers who attend information or education sessions either through their playgroup, day care centre, early learning centre for example, will be provided with free resources. Some of the resources that parents would receive include:

• Parent activity booklet
• On the road to safety DVD
• Your Guide to Child Car Restraints brochure
• CD of songs

 

 

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Check out additional information and resources by clicking onto the following websites

• Child Car Restraints (RoadWise)
• Department for Community Development WA
• Department of Consumer & Employment Protection WA
• Kids and Traffic (Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program) NSW
• Kidsafe WA
• Meerilinga (Children, family & community WA)
• Ngala Family Resource Centre WA
• Playgroup WA (Inc)
• RAC WA
• Raising Children Network (Australian Parenting Website)
• TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research WA

Parents/carers of 4 to 12 year old children (Kindergarten to Year 7)

Are we there yet?

The Kindergarten to Year 7 (4 to 12 year olds) road safety pack ‘Are we there yet?’ includes a DVD and information brochure. It focuses on specific road safety issues such as crossing the road, wearing a correctly fitted restraint, playing in safer areas and wearing a helmet and protective gear.

The road safety packs are provided free of charge to all WA schools.

Challenges and Choices At home activities.
Parent at home activities are available to download from here.

Parents/carers of 13 to 15 year old children (Years 8 to 10)

Challenges and Choices At home activities.
Parent at home activities are available to download from here.

 

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