Training will help prevention specialists maintain program fidelity and optimize student experience with this research-based program.

Who should attend

• Classroom teachers
• Counselors
• Prevention specialists

Participants will be able to

• understand how tobacco use affects youth in all areas of their lives and identify skills to resist pressure to begin tobacco use
• understand how youth are impacted by media messages and identify ways youth can be critical consumers
• identify and target social and psychological factors that encourage first use
• support youths' resistance to tobacco use through peer leadership rather than adult praise or punishment
• identify effective peer leaders and train them
• explore post-program opportunities to reinforce no-use messages utilizing community support

Length of training

• 1 day, 8:00 - 3:00

Contact us

If you have any questions about any of our implementation training programs please email us, or call 800-328-9000, ext. 4672.  

Agenda

  8:00 Welcome
  8:15 Looking At Me Looking At You
  8:30 Training day expectations
  8:45 Local data regarding tobacco
  9:00 Small group work including visual scenarios
  9:20 Break
  9:30 Prevention 101-comprehensive prevention
  9:45 Curriculum tour
10:00 What is MSPP?
10:15 Peer leaders
10:30 Break
10:40 Session 1
11:00 Process Session
11:15 Assign/volunteer sessions 2-5
11:45 Lunch
12:15 Discuss steps for presenting
12:20 Sessions 2-6
  2:30 Community-wide intervention
  2:45 Wrap up

Contracted trainings for MSPP are available, email us, or call 800-328-9000, ext. 4672.