Schools and the Opioid Epidemic in the Age of COVID-19
In November and December of 2020, the Opioid Response Network (ORN) hosted a three-part series: Schools and the Opioid Epidemic in the Age of COVID-19.
Each session addressed the challenges and opportunities for schools to address youth substance use prevention, resilience, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic caused a dramatic shift for many schools in their delivery of education and interaction with students. Some schools shifted to all remote learning or hybrid learning with live and remote instruction.
This series focused on three areas schools had to adopt or modify due to the shift:
- Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention Curricula
- Building Resilience and Preventing Substance Use
- Parent Prevention Education
Each session featured a diverse panel of subject matter experts that shared special considerations and strategies they implemented to address these needs.
Session 1: Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention Curricula
Details:
Recording (Spanish and English subtitles)
Presenter Slides:
Session 2: Building Resilience and Preventing Substance Use
Details:
Recording (Spanish and English subtitles)
Presenter Slides:
Session 3: Parent Prevention Education
Details:
Recording (Spanish and English subtitles)
Presenter Slides:
A key component of prevention is parent-child connectedness, with clear parental messages encouraging delaying and abstaining from substance use. This PowerPoint can serve has a template for an hour-long virtual, Parent Prevention Night. It includes an infographic in English and Spanish to distribute to parents illustrating safe home storage of alcohol, opioids and other substances.
Template PowerPoint for Parent Prevention Night:
User Guide for Template:
Safe Home Storage Infographic, English: