You’re changing students’ lives and helping them make smarter, healthier choices, like avoiding marijuana. The Washington State Department of Health’s (DOH) You Can campaign can help. Our goal is to educate teens about the risks and consequences of using marijuana and keep them focused on their dreams, passions, and goals.
To bring You Can into the classroom, DOH created the You Can Box toolkit. This toolkit is designed to help teachers:
- Talk with students about marijuana’s risks and consequences.
- Help students learn alternative ways to manage anxiety and boredom with stress-relief tools, creative exercises, and health and fitness activities.
- Talk to students about the things they can do now for future success.
- Easily access the You Can posters, which can be ordered here.
This video provides an overview of the You Can Box and the materials included. To help teachers access the materials virtually, everything that was included in the original USB is available below in the toolkit folders.
The toolkit is divided into five topics as outlined below. We’ve created folders for each focus area within the topics to help you more easily navigate all of the materials available.
- Marijuana’s Risks and Consequences
- Talking points and FAQs for teachers, as well as videos to share with students
- Helping Students De-stress
- Helping Students De-Stress: Exercises for Students
- Helping Students De-Stress: Tools for Reducing Stress
- Creativity in the Classroom
- Creativity in the Classroom: Creative Exercises for Students
- Creativity in the Classroom: Teaching Creative Basics
- Student Health and Fitness
- Student Health and Fitness: Exercises for Students
- Student Health and Fitness: Teaching Healthy Eating
- Student Health and Fitness: Teaching the Health Risks of Marijuana
- School
- School: Tools for Helping Students Succeed in School
- School: Tools for Talking to Students About the Future
Please note that the materials provided on the You Can Box toolkit can be edited and shared, except for the “Coloring Therapy” handout and all videos, which cannot be used for commercial purposes nor altered. All materials align with OSPI’s middle school health outcomes.
If you have any questions, please contact Leslie Tunmore at Leslie.Tunmore@gmmb.com.