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Escuela Americana Faculty Meeting Janauary 18, 2017 Jos Rowe Palafox FCD Prevention Specialist FCD Educational Services Private nonprofit organization 40 years of school-based substance abuse prevention 2 million students, 69

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Faculty Meeting Janauary 18, 2017

José Rowe Palafox FCD Prevention Specialist

Escuela Americana

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FCD Educational Services

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www.fcd.org

 Private nonprofit organization  40 years of school-based substance abuse

prevention

 Prevention is a climate and not a program  2 million students, 69 countries

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Comprehensive Prevention Planning

www.fcd.org 3

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Middle School Intensive Student Education

 Seminar 1: Addiction

 Addiction as a disease, risk and protective factors

 Seminar 2: Alcohol, Tobacco/Nicotine, and

Marijuana

 Basic information, the risks and consequences of use

 Seminar 3: Facts About Other Drugs

 More ATM discussion and other questions answered

 Seminar 4: Solutions and Alternatives

 How to help a friend, stress management, healthy highs

Facts and Strengths Building

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Upper/High School Intensive Student Education

 Seminar 1: Use and Culture

 Interpreting what society says about substances

 Seminar 2: Use and Community

 Considering influences of family, friends, school and

community on a young person’s substance choices

Critical Thinking and Skill Development

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Seminar 3: Use and the Individual—Part I

 Substances’ effects on the young brain and body

Seminar 4: Use and the Individual—Part II

 Substances’ effects on personal development and identity

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Risk Factors for Addiction

Family History Age of first use Cravings Tolerance Surroundings

www.fcd.org 6

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How Teen Brain Works

  • Process of synaptic pruning:

– Decrease in of grey matter – Increase in white matter – High levels of dopamine

– Maturing – Driven emotionally – Primed socially – Risk taking – Pleasure seeking

www.fcd.org 7

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Human Brain Development

www.fcd.org 8

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Social Norms

  • People tend to do what they

perceive everyone else is doing.

  • What people think everyone else

is doing becomes the norm. But…

  • …perceptions are not always
  • accurate. Still…
  • …behaviors occur based on false

norms.

www.fcd.org 9

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Perceptions vs. Reality

  • 4% of all students think “it is cool to get drunk”
  • Yet, 23% of all students assume schoolmates think “it’s

cool to get drunk”

  • 6% of 12th graders think “it is cool to get drunk”
  • Yet, 37% of 12th graders assume schoolmates think “it is

cool to get drunk”

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School Protective Factors

Academic achievement Extracurricular participation Connectivity to trusted adults Opportunities for natural highs

A community where non-use is respected, rewarded, and normal

Early intervention health systems Infrastructural investment in the social norms approach

www.fcd.org 11

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Resiliency

  • Adapting well
  • “Bouncing

back”

  • Keeps kids

healthy

  • Prevents

substance abuse

www.fcd.org 1 2

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How is Resiliency Built?

  • Loving adults
  • “Stress role models”
  • Age-appropriate communication
  • Behavior control
  • Knowing about support systems
  • Having healthy highs in place

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The Roles of Healthy Adults in the Lives of Healthy Kids

  • Set, keep and enforce clear and consistent

policy

  • Share facts, not fear
  • Practice and role play

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The Roles of Healthy Adults in the Lives of Healthy Kids

  • Talk about the joys of healthy living
  • Celebrate students’ healthy decision-

making

  • Stress personal responsibility

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Interventions

Discipline? Referral? Correcting?

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What Faculty Can Do

  • Role model adult health
  • Be involved in healthy activities, ready

to intervene on unhealthy attitudes and behavior

  • Actively express the school’s

expectations and consequences

  • Know what is going on with:

– substance trends – social norms – students in the classroom, hallways, athletic fields, etc. – students when stress is high

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Take-Away Points for Faculty

All student use equals risk Delayed use prevents later problems The majority of students are making healthy choices Adult role modeling and expectations are vital to a healthy prevention climate

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Questions or Comments?

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Resources

FCD Educational Services www.fcd.org “FCD: Prevention Works” National Institute on Drug Abuse http://www.nida.nih.gov

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