OTP PowerPoint
Very informative resource that has several pictures of other tobacco products.

10 myths about school shootings
The profile of the gun-toting student in a trench coat is just one of the myths about the rare but numerous attacks in the nation's schools. Here are 10 myths about school shootings, compiled by MSNBC.com from a study by the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Dept of Education.

Bullying Prevention Resource
This resource is for kids, professionals and parents (including games).

Coping with Traumatic Events
This web page includes articles that contain tips and suggestions for responding to children of different ages; describes signs and symptoms of stress or fear in a child; and provide coping strategies for dealing with fear and anxiety.

Gang Assessment - Northeast Wisconsin
The Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment (NWGA) offers a comprehensive look at the gang activity currently affecting the Fox Valley Area, as well as select nearby counties. It also describes the various prevention programs in place within the region, and prospective prevention programs that may be effective.

Safe Schools
DPI has a list of resources for safe schools - violence prevention.

AODA Exemplary Programs (DOE)
Department of Education has identified programs that have been evaluated for effectiveness - they call the Exemplary Programs. This is a listing of those programs - Title IV funds can be used for these programs without getting a waiver on your Title IV application.

AODA Materials
Free AODA materials that can be ordered from National Institutes of Drug Abuse.

Center for Substance Abuse Research Website
Substance abuse statistics, drug summaries, and research reports are all available on the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) website. In addition to state and local statistics and drug summaries, many of Cesar's own research publications, including the CESAR FAX, are available for viewing and downloading.  

Commonly Abused Drugs
This is a table that lists the street names, how used, intoxificating effects and what to look for for most illicit drugs. It is a pdf file and you might need to adjust your zoom feature (usually located in the middle of your computer tool bar) to enlarge the document.

Drug Glossary
Glossary of "street" terms for a variety of drugs - might be helpful to understand what students are talking about. These terms are always changing.

Free Vibe
This website contains drug facts, stories and news on drugs and teens.

Methamphetamine - Names
Link to a site that has a HUGE list of slang terms of methamphetamine.

NIAAA Alcohol Alert
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Alcohol Alerts provides bulletins with research from the NIAAA.

Prescription Drug Abuse: Teens in Danger
This resource has a wealth of knowledge of prescription drug abuse and students. There is a lesson plan as well as a quiz for teachers.

Trends in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs
Dr. Jane Maxwell, with the Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, has released a new report: Trends in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs.  It includes a description of the variations in the growing prescription drug abuse problem across the nation as summarized in the abstracts and presentations of the Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG is sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) members at their June 2006 meeting. To read the full report, visit this website!

What Works Wisconsin
The What Works team provides practitioners and policymakers with the tools to develop effective programs and evaluate and improve existing programming based on state-of-the-art knowledge of what makes programs effective.

Beer Tax (WI)
This is Rep. Berceau's webpage and includes a PowerPoint on her position for raising the WI beer tax.

Beer Tax Bill (WI)
WI Beer tax bill co-sponsored Representatives Berceau and Benedict and Senatpr Risser.

Costs of Underage Drinking in Wisconsin
The Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation (PIRE) has documented the cost of underage drinking in Wisconsin. March 2004.

Drinking in WI as compared with the Nation
Genevieve Kirchman, CESA 5 created this handout which was taken from the Factbook on State Beer Taxes, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), July 2004. It focuses on the statistics relating to Wisconsin and compares it with several other states in regards to alcohol use, state alcohol tax, etc.

NSDUH Report 2006
This document shows State estimates of underage drinking.

The Cool Spot
This website is the young teen's place for information on alcohol and resisting peer pressure.

Tips for Teens about Alcohol
The website provides facts and tips for teens about alcohol.

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering through research.

American Heart Association
This site contains facts, activities and much more.

American Lung Association of WI
This site offers tobacco control programs, trainign and resources.

American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation
An educational nonprofit organization, creates comprehensive programs for school-age youth on issues of smoking prevention and their right to breathe smoke-free air. We also provide educational materials to aid adults in their quest for a smoke-free environment.

Burden of Tobacco by County in Wisconsin
On this site you can click on each county to see a summary of the cost of tobacco for that county.

Burden of Tobacco for WI - Summary
The health and economic toll of cigarette smoking is well documented and includes excessive rates of chronic disease, diminished productivity, and premature death.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Kick Butts Day - Special Reports, State & Federal Initiatives - Quick Youth Statistics, Facts, Marketing Tactics

Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.

FACT (Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco)
Wisconsin's youth-led tobacco prevention movement created for and by teens. Youth-led campaign seeking to empower youth people to make informed choices about tobacco by learning the facts about how the tobacco industry targets them. FACT youth are taking action statewide and in their communities to reduce youth tobacco use and prevent their friends from becoming targets of the tobacco industry.

Great American Smokeout
Quitting smoking is not easy, but it can be done. To have the best chance of quitting successfully, you need to know what you're up against, what your options are, and where to go for help.

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
A component of the National Institute of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Dept of Health & Human Services (DHHS). The NCI is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.

QuitLine
University of WI Center for Tobacco Research & Intervention (CTRI). 800-QUIT-NOW (800-784-8669). Free quit line materials, community guide to quit - tobacco programs, quit information for smokers and chewers, information for or about: researchers, health care providers, smokers, insurers, employers, and advocates, clinical practice guidelines.

Smoke-Free Story
It's time to talk... about the secondhand smoke at home, at work, in our lives and in our lungs. It's time to talk about everyone's right to breathe smoke-free air because if we all get firsthand about our own secondhand smoke experiences, Wisconsin might get a little bit healthier in return.

Smoke-Free Wisconsin
Created in 2000, on the momentum of the strong, statewide partnerships that came together to achieve the successes of the WI Smokeless States Project. SmokeFree WI brings together the established strenghts of WI's powerful tobacco control community, the TRUST Campaign (Tobacco Reduction Using the Settlement), and the longstanding support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Smokeless Tobacco
You will discover that with a little helpfrom your fellow quitters, life without the tin or pouch is very possible.

Tar Wars
A tobacco free education program for kids from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The program focuses on the short-term, image-based consequences of tobacco use and how to think critically about tobacco advertising. A follow-up poster contest at the school, state, and national levels is conducted to reinforce the TAR WARS message.

Tobacco Control, Policy & Advocacy
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) has a wealth of resources on their website for campaigns, media and a listing of resources.

Tobacco Control Resource Center for WI
Provides free materials, lending library, secondhand smoke fact sheets, cessation resources, key local and statewide contacts, and much more.

Tobacco Quitline
Tobacco quitline materials.

Trinkets & Trash
The online surveillance system and archive of tobacco products and tobacco industry marketing materials.

Wisconsin School Tobacco Program Resources
This website from DPI features an tobacco assessment tool and resources.

WI Tobacco Prevention & Control Program
WI's Dept of Health Services Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. WI continues to make great progress, reducing high school smoking rates from 33% in 2000 to 20% in 2006, and middle school smoking rates from 12% in 2000 to 9% in 2006. To get more information on programs and activities such as keeping youth from starting smoking, and assuring all retailers comply with retain sales laws and do the right thing by not selling tobacco products to kids to to the Tobacco "Prevention and Control Program's website.

SAMHSA's NREPP Site
Visit SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) Web site to access SAMHSA's searchable database of interventions designed to promote mental health or prevent or treat mental illness, substance use disorders

Community Tool Box
This website includes a wealth of information for community organizing. The toolbox includes handouts for sixteen different topics that are relevant to creating or sustaining a coalition. Check them out!

FREE Health & Safety Curricula
Genevieve Kirchman at CESA 5 created a list of ATOD and Violence Prevention educational materials that are available for FREE. Some of these are lesson plans for various grade levels, others are just supplemental materials. Some of the materials are also appropriate for staff and parents. Contact information for ordering these materials is included.

Health Literacy Performance Assessments
Learning Modules - these are available for FREE from Dept. of Public Instruction and are downloadable as a pdf or you can get it on a disk. One disk is for Mental Health Units (Dating, Violence, Suicide and Mental Illness), a second disk has all the other performance assessments (tobacco, HIV/AIDS, social norms, etc.).

UW Extension Materials
Materials on choosing and implementing model programs and effective practices. Includes one document on what works in preventing truancy.

AODA Screening Test (Free Online)
Join Together (Boston University School of Public Health) has developed an anonymous on-line screening tool for teens or adults to assess the health risks of their use of alcohol. Participants get immediate feedback and this tool has been adapted specific for teens.

Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) has identified 13 fundamental principles for drug addiction treatment. This is a one page summary of those principles.

Treatment Rights for Minors Sept 2006
Treatment rights for minors statutory change September 2006 - this is a recent bulletin about the change in the law regarding treatment rights of minors 14 and older.

Academic-Social-Emotional Learning Programs
Listing of Social and Emotional Learning Programs that have been linked with Academic Improvement by CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning)

Choking Game
Informatoin about a very dangerous practice that is sometimes used by teenagers.

DPI AODA Funding
Information on Student ATOD Mini Grants, Two-Year ATOD Program Grants, Title IV-Safe & Drug Free School & Community Funding - all are available from Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction.

DPI Webcasts
All DPI webcasts including Safe Schools series. Great for individual learning as well as for staff inservices. Click on 'Student Services, Prevention and Wellness' to get a list of all that dept's webcasts or search for 'safe schools' to just get that list of the programs with that focus.

Gay Lesbian Legal Issues and Schools
This is a 21 page publication co-authored by multiple national organizations. Full title of the article is: Dealing with Legal Matters Surrounding Students' Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

School Employee Wellness
A guide for protecting the assets of our nation's schools providing information, practical tools and resources for school employee wellness programs.