School Drug Education and Road Aware

Drug Education In Focus

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Challenges and Choices: Resilience, drug and road safety education for early and middle childhood teachers

Participants are requested to bring the Challenges and Choices teacher resource for their students’ phase of schooling.

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Challenges and Choices: Resilience, drug and road safety education for early adolescence teachers

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Alcohol and Cannabis In Focus

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Resilient Kids: Social And Emotional Learning

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Drug Education Forum Workshop

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Further information about Drug Education Forum Funding.

Keeping In Touch: Secondary - Working with alcohol and other drug use

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

For further information contact the Keeping In Touch Project Officer on 9264 4556 or email catriona.coe@det.wa.edu.au

Keeping In Touch offers professional development in early intervention to all school-based staff. It serves to increase knowledge and understanding around drug use issues and to introduce practical strategies and support pathways to aid in the management of drug use issues in schools. It considers:

• the role of the staff member in working with drug use issues within duty of care
• attitudes and beliefs around drug use
• how and why drug use may become an issue
• knowledge and skill development in identifying students in need of support
• strategies and practices to aid intervention/support provision
• development of partnerships between schools and specialist agencies to provide sustainable support to staff.

This professional development is a one-day workshop. A copy of the Keeping In Touch resource will be provided to all participants as a CD ROM.

SDERA Professional Learning Seminars

Past presentations have included Alcohol and its impact on young Western Australians; Cannabis: Latest research; Current trends in illicit drug use in Perth and Pharmaceuticals and a Paraplegic Benefit Fund presentation

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

This one day workshop is compulsory for teachers wishing to implement the Keys for Life program.  The program is suitable for Year 10-12 students as well as young people at non-school sites and centres.  It focuses on the development of positive road user attitudes, risk management strategies and encouraging driving practice (under supervision). Participating students receive free resources including a journal, driving guide, pamphlets and a road rules handbook.

On completion of the program (approximately 10 hours), teachers are authorised to conduct the Learner's Permit Theory Test (road rules test) with students at school and issue certificates which can be redeemed for a discounted Learner's Permit at any licensing centre in the state. Keys for Life is a Council endorsed course and students can accrue 1 point toward the WA Certificate of Education (WACE).

Schools intending to implement Keys for Life can only access the resource by attending a one day Keys for Life workshop.  Schools may send more than one staff member to the workshop. 

A certificate of attendance will be provided on completion of the professional development workshop.

All associated costs including teacher relief are covered by SDERA. Workshops are scheduled at various times throughout the year. To register for a workshop click here.

Keys for Life: Parent Workshop

This is a free, school community-based initiative for young people and their parents/carers that promotes the importance of supervised driving practice for learner drivers.

The 1 hour interactive session provides parents/carers and the learner driver with:

• the importance of getting as much supervised driving practice as possible
• ways to communicate to take the stress out of driving practice.
  

Students who help to organise and run a Keys for Life parent workshop can accumulate community service hours towards their compulsory 20 hours of community service.

Schools can contact the RAC in the metropolitan area or RoadWise and SDERA Regional Project Officers to facilitate the session.

Alternatively, school staff can facilitate a Keys for Life: Parent workshop after participating in the Keys for Life professional development workshop conducted by SDERA.

Smart Steps: Road safety education for carers of 0-4 year olds

Evidence that shows that the most effective time to get involved in good road safety practices is early childhood, including the ante-natal period (Elliott, 2001).

Smart Steps is a free parent and carer community based education program that supports parents and carers to model safe behaviours and make safer decisions in the road environment for young children. It addresses three key areas of risk regarding the use of child car restraints and general passenger safety, safe pedestrian practices and safer play.

Professional training
Training is offered to child health and community agency professionals who provide a service to parents, carers and families who have young children.
Participants of the Smart Steps training workshop will receive a free presenter’s kit and a certificate of participation.

• Click here to see the Smart Steps education kit