NEW L1

MAJOR ASSIGNMENT EXPLAINED

HOW TO BUILD SELF ESTEEM

• Think positively about yourself
• Pay attention to personal hygiene
• Wear clean clothes that make you feel good
• Eat healthy
• Exercise regularly
• Get enough sleep
• Reduce stress
• Make your living space clean
• Do more things you enjoy
• Be nice to people
• Avoid people that treat you badly

SELF ESTEEM

REFUSAL SKILLS

• What is self-esteem?
• What does self-esteem have to do with drug use?

How to deal with

Peer Pressure

• Cold shoulder/ignore
• I'm allergic
• Provide other options

• Just say "no"
• Walk away
• change the subject
• Use humor

R.A.I.D

LESSON #1

Is a Sense of being forced to do something or behave a certain way

Peer Pressure

What is peer pressure?

Scenario Activity

Decision Making

&

Refusal Skills

Decision Making Model

• Divide students into 4-5 groups for Ideal model scenario activity

• One group member to write down solutions in raid book (page 18) and present to class

• I - identify the problem

• D - describe how you might solve the problem

• E - evaluate all possible solutions

• A - act on one of the solutions

• L - learn from your choices

Lesson 1

• Intro to course
• Scenario activity
• Decision making skills
• Peer pressure video
• Refusal skills
• Self Esteem
• Assignment provided