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Health and Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum
On this page:
- About the Health and Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum
- HOPE Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes
- Lesson Plans and Learning Materials
- Become a HOPE Curriculum Partner
- Workshops
- Additional Resources
- Contact Us
- News
- Health and Physical Education at Wright State
About the Health and Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum
The Health and Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum is a kindergarten through high school opioid prevention curriculum designed to support local health education curriculum. The HOPE Curriculum supports the ORC 3313.60 requirements to provide a health education curriculum that “includes instruction on the dangers of prescription opioid abuse and the connection between prescription opioid abuse and addiction to other drugs, such as heroin.”
The HOPE Curriculum provides developmentally appropriate lessons to build students' skills and functional health knowledge that leads to healthy behaviors students can demonstrate throughout their life.
HOPE Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes
Students will learn key concepts and medication safety principles, such as:
- Only take medicine from a trusted adult.
- Identifying trusted adults at home and within the community.
- Never share or take someone else’s medicine.
- Store medicines in a locked cabinet and out of the reach of children. Properly dispose of excess or expired prescriptions.
- If it is unhealthy, unsafe, or you are unsure—Don’t touch! Don’t take! Don’t taste! Tell a trusted adult!
Students will also develop the skills to make healthy and drug-free choices, including:
- Decision-making skills: Stop, Think, Choose
- Analyzing influences and accessing valid health resources Advocating for healthy choices
- Communication skills, including being assertive, refusing unhealthy choices, showing empathy, and asking for help from others
The HOPE Curriculum is designed to educate students in grades K-12. Learn more about each grade band by accessing a curriculum overview:
Lesson Plans and Learning Materials
Elementary Lesson Plans
Grade: K
Grade: 1
Grade: 2
Grade: 3
Grade: 4
HOPE Curriculum Guide, Elementary (PDF)
Middle School Lesson Plans
Grade: 6
Grade: 7
High School Lesson Plans
- Lesson 1: Drug Use and Its Impact on You (PDF)
- Lesson 2: Substance Use Disorder (PDF)
- Lesson 3: Proper Use of Prescription and OTC Medicines (PDF)
- Lesson 4: Decision-Making (PDF)
- Lesson 5: Opioid Abuse Prevention (PDF)
- Lesson 6: Influences on Substance Use (PDF)
- Lesson 7: Refusal Skills (PDF)
- Lesson 8: Avoiding Driving/Riding with a Person Under the Influence (PDF)
- Lesson 9: Getting Help (PDF)
- Lesson 10: Advocating to be Drug-Free (PDF)
HOPE Curriculum Guide, Middle and High School (PDF)
Become a HOPE Curriculum Partner
Health education teachers, school administrators, and other stakeholders can gain access to our website to review the lessons by contacting HOPECurriculum@wright.edu or by using the instructions found in Accessing the HOPE Curriculum Lesson Plans (PDF).
Contact HopeCurriculum@wright.edu if you would like to become a school partner researching the implementation of the lessons. Partners are needed in each of the grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and high school).
Workshops
Schools and Educational Service Centers can request a HOPE Curriculum workshop for their teachers by contacting HOPECurriculum@wright.edu.
Additional workshops available include:
- Building a K-12 Health Education Curriculum
- Constructing a School-wide Prevention Program
- Family Engagement
- Staff Wellness & Self-Care
- Implementing the Ohio Whole Child Framework
Additional Resources
Additional resources to support healthy students in Ohio’s schools include:
- Start Talking!
- Generation Rx
- OAHPERD Model Curriculum
- Ohio K-12 Prevention Initiative
- Schools of Excellence in Prevention
- Prevention Action Alliance
- Ohio Whole Child Framework
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