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School-Related Activities:

• COMPREHENSIVE AOD EDUCATION MODEL

  • Identify key AOD prevention partners.

  • Identify school and community AOD activities and gaps.

  • Conduct workshop on effective comprehensive AOD education models during DAW.

  • Establish an AOD Comprehensive Education Model task force.

• BECOMING YOUR BEST: LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS

  • The activity goal is to enhance the development of life skills and to raise awareness of issues related to alcohol and drug use.

  • The program will promote positive and healthy lifestyle choices through the development and enhancement of communication skills, goal-setting skills, problem-solving skills, positive risk-taking, assertiveness skills, stress management skills, and the discussion AOD issues and related community resources.

• P.A.D.’s (Parents Against Drugs) Challenges, Beliefs, Choices Program

  • A peer-led training and education program, where senior secondary school students learn facts on alcohol and other drugs as well as group facilitation, problem-solving and communication skills. Trained students become peer facilitators for grade 8 students to discuss issues around alcohol and other drugs.

• Party Smart Stay Safe Program 

  • Harm reduction program for senior secondary school students promoting safe partying and educating students on liability issues.

• Magic Program

  • Develop a magic show program based on grade 5 AOD prevention curriculum and model programs (based on concept of Just Say Moe smoking prevention program targeting grade 4 students).

• Programming for Parents

  • Make connections with school councils and offer assistance with AOD education, parenting education, and create an awareness of existing AOD prevention activities for youth.

  • Assess need for parent resources and assist in the collection/development and dissemination of these resources.

  • Act as a resource for any parent groups doing AOD activities.
    

Seniors-Related Activities:

• Seniors Pharmacist Presentations

• Seniors Health Fairs

• Seniors Theatre

Community-Related Activities:

• Ultimate Mix Contest

  • Youth create mocktails and safe-sober messages for partying.

• Summer AOD Prevention and Injury Prevention Activities

  • Create a variety of AOD presentations and skill building workshops which they will then deliver to summer day camps, family resource centres and youth groups.

  • Partner with existing summer safety campaigns related to AOD injury prevention.

• After School Kids Club

  • Provide after school skill development, education and awareness programming for 7 – 14 year old children.

• Community Summer Festival

  • Coordinate with community partners a summer festival to provide information about community resources, to provide families with interactive fun activities.

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effect prevention activities 

• Safer Downtown/Bars Initiative

  • Expand existing working group to include more business interests (bars, BIA, Casino, hotels).

  • Create materials to be distributed at identified locations.

  • Distribute created informational materials to identified locations.

  • Lobby City of Windsor to include Safer Bars Workshop by CAMH and OTEC as a requirement for license renewal.

  • Assess feasibility and if feasible deliver liability workshops to bar owners. 

• Drug Awareness Week Activities

  • Partner with local drug awareness week committee to assist in the planning and delivery of DAW activities.

• Alcohol Policy Development for Bars, Hotels and Service Clubs

• Workplace Policy Assessment