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The MEI program provides educators, schools, communities, and families with information and resources to better understand and confront the challenges associated with the changing dynamics created by legalized marijuana. MEI fills a need for post-legalization, marijuana-specific curricula that shifts the dialogue and approach to adolescent drug prevention. Marijuana laws and views are changing across the country and MEI is committed to providing youth with progressive education to accompany this change.
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The core education principles of the MEI prevention curriculum include honest communication, informed decision making, and self efficacy. The curricula is designed to be implemented in a health or science class and to engage students in reality based conversations about the common uses of marijuana, address health and behavior risks associated with marijuana use and abuse, and support informed decision making. The prevention curriculum is standards-based, facilitated by classroom teachers, and is grade level appropriate.
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The intervention curriculum will be facilitated by a school mental health professional in a group or individual setting for students who have an established habit of marijuana use and who want to reduce their dependence on marijuana or quit. This seven unit program uses a combination of cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational enhancement therapy, trans theoretical model, mindfulness practices, and science-based information to increase participants’ awareness of how their marijuana use impacts their behavior, body and brain. The engaging intervention curriculum is discussion, activity, and journal based, and intended to help students who are motivated to reduce or quit their marijuana habit. This curriculum includes a workbook to help with the process of exploring marijuana use habits and patterns.
This product will be available to purchase April, 2016
A modified intervention curriculum will be available as an alternative to suspension or suspension enhancement opportunity for students who violate school marijuana policies. The curriculum can be delivered through individual or small group instruction, will focus on motivational interviewing techniques, and can be used as part of the restorative justice process.
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Drawing on information from the intervention and prevention curriculum, the Athlete Awareness Presentation will available for coaches, student athletes and parents. The presentation can be delivered by trained coaches or MEI facilitators and can be used to increase athlete awareness about how marijuana use affects their performance.
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The MEI team is available to come to your community and/or school to present engaging fact-based information on issues relevant to the changing cultural norms created by marijuana legalization. The primary focus of these presentations will be the impacts of youth and adolescent marijuana use.
The core education principles of the MEI Education and Impact Awareness (MEIA) curriculum include honest communication, informed decision making, and self-efficacy. The curriculum is designed to be implemented in a health or science class and to engage students in reality-based conversations about the common uses of marijuana, health and behavior risks associated with marijuana use and abuse, and informed decision making about marijuana use. The MEIA curriculum is standards-based, facilitated by classroom teachers, and is grade-level-appropriate.
Learn moreSampleThe Intervention curriculum is facilitated by a school mental health professional in a group or individual setting for students who have an established habit of marijuana use and who want to reduce their dependence on marijuana or quit. This seven-unit program employs a combination of techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy, the Transtheoretical Model, mindfulness training as well as scientific evidence-based information to increase participants’ awareness of how their marijuana use affects their behavior, body, and brain. The engaging Intervention curriculum includes discussion, activities, and journal writing. It is intended to help students who are motivated to reduce or quit their marijuana habit to do so. This curriculum includes a workbook to help students explore their marijuana use habits and patterns.
Learn moreSampleThis curriculum can be used as an alternative to suspension or as a suspension
enhancement opportunity for students who have violated school marijuana policies.
The curriculum is delivered through individual instruction. It can be used to help
increase students’ awareness of their marijuana patterns, which can then be
addressed more thoroughly with the Marijuana Education Initiative Intervention
curriculum.
This curriculum utilizes motivational interviewing techniques and a
personalized feedback report (PFR) to enhance students’ understanding of their
marijuana use and its impact. The curriculum can be used as part of the restorative
justice process or to reduce a suspension resulting from a marijuana infraction.
Drawing on information from the Intervention and Prevention curricula, the Athlete Awareness presentation is available for coaches, student athletes, and parents. The presentation can be delivered by trained coaches or MEI facilitators. It is used to increase athletes’ awareness of how marijuana use affects their performance.
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The MEI team is available to come to your school or district to support educators and administration in implementing the Marijuana Education Initiative’s program so that the school can efficiently deliver a comprehensive roll-out of all curricula components. This customizable option can include staff and parent presentations, in-person trainings of all curriculum, elements as well as program implementation and marijuana policy consultation.
As pioneers on the forefront of marijuana education, the MEI team is available to consult on marijuana policy as it pertains to schools and youth prevention and intervention efforts through education and legislation.
For more information, contact us at [email protected] for customized pricing and packages.
Book your 2016/17 Marijuana Education Initiative presentation by May 31, 2016 to lock in this school year’s presentation rates.
The MEI team is available to come to your
community or school to present engaging, fact-based information on issues
relevant to the changing cultural norms created by marijuana legalization. These presentations focus on the
impacts of marijuana use by youth and adolescents.
Booking now for the 2016/2017 school year, contact us at [email protected] for customized pricing and packages.
The core education principles of the MEI prevention curriculum include honest communication, informed decision making, and self efficacy. The curricula is designed to be implemented in a health or science class and to engage students in reality based conversations about the common uses of marijuana, address health and behavior risks associated with marijuana use and abuse, and support informed decision making. The prevention curriculum is standards-based, facilitated by classroom teachers, and is grade level appropriate.
This product will be available to purchase April, 2016.
The intervention curriculum will be facilitated by a school mental health professional in a group or individual setting for students who have an established habit of marijuana use and who want to reduce their dependence on marijuana or quit.
This seven unit program uses a combination of cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational enhancement therapy, trans theoretical model, mindfulness practices, and science-based information to increase participants’ awareness of how their marijuana use impacts their behavior, body and brain. The engaging intervention curriculum is discussion, activity, and journal based, and intended to help students who are motivated to reduce or quit their marijuana habit. This curriculum includes a workbook to help with the process of exploring marijuana use habits and patterns.
This product will be available to purchase April, 2016
A modified intervention curriculum will be available as an alternative to suspension or suspension enhancement opportunity for students who violate school marijuana policies. The curriculum can be delivered through individual or small group instruction, will focus on motivational interviewing techniques, and can be used as part of the restorative justice process.
This product will be available to purchase April, 2016
"In short, this class gave me the gentle nudge I needed to start to change my lifestyle and gave me some strategies to help with this drastic change. Without this class I truly don’t know when I would have become aware of what I was doing or if I ever would have wanted to change. This class left me feeling excited to see what new hobbies I replace my old habits with and where I can take myself."
“The new curriculum is visionary and has the potential to fill an existing education gap statewide and nationally.”
“My feelings towards the marijuana intervention class are ones of gratitude and hopefulness. I say this because this class was the thing that got me to realize what exactly I have been doing to myself the past few years.”
"The class shows the student, in a very understandable way, what the consequences of being a habitual smoker are. When I found out the impact of marijuana on my brain and body, I was pretty discouraged and almost felt hopeless until I was taught that in a single year that the brain can heal a significant amount if you are not using."
The Marijuana Education Initiative is the first tool that gives Colorado educators the opportunity to truly educate students about the use of Marijuana. The time has come for a curriculum that is more comprehensive and informational, than the traditional fear mongering of drug prevention programs such as DARE.
It was a very positive experience delivering the marijuana educational curriculum. The students were instantly responsive to the activities, discussion topics and mindfulness activities. The curriculum was filled with meaningful and in-depth topics that really resonated with our population of students. At the end of the group, they all had very positive feedback and thought it was important curriculum for all students. As a facilitator, I found the curriculum well-organized, meaningful, up-to-date and valuable.
"I have worked many years in education and have seen several drug-based curricula come and go, but I have never seen something as promising as the curriculum created by MEI."
"The class shows the student, in a very understandable way, what the consequences of being a habitual smoker are. When I found out the impact of marijuana on my brain and body, I was pretty discouraged and almost felt hopeless until I was taught that in a single year that the brain can heal a significant amount if you are not using."
“My feelings towards the marijuana intervention class are ones of gratitude and hopefulness. I say this because this class was the thing that got me to realize what exactly I have been doing to myself the past few years.”
“The new curriculum is visionary and has the potential to fill an existing education gap statewide and nationally.”
"In short, this class gave me the gentle nudge I needed to start to change my lifestyle and gave me some strategies to help with this drastic change. Without this class I truly don’t know when I would have become aware of what I was doing or if I ever would have wanted to change. This class left me feeling excited to see what new hobbies I replace my old habits with and where I can take myself."
"I am currently in the process of implementing new curriculum in an existing elective based on new national standards. Both the "All the World's a Stage" session and the "CO student and Marijuana" gave me numerous ideas for both activities and content. Both will help me meet my goals of designing meaningful formative assessments and checks for understanding."
"The session about marijuana and the Colorado student was full of great information that will enhance my unit on the neurobiology of addiction units in Anatomy & Physiology as well as AP Biology. The information was current and very relevant. It was also a little scary to know just how many of our students are using marijuana and how young they are beginning. I think this is an issue we should be addressing at a school and district level, and all staff should understand the effects of marijuana on learning as well as the impact and reach marijuana has on our student population. It was a sobering but incredibly valuable session."
"The session on marijuana gave us some tangible things that we can be doing as a community to address increased use data and the perception that marijuana is not harmful. I would like to bring the presenters into our buildings for presentations to parents and as a resource for our health teachers."
"As a teacher's aide at a Charter school in Colorado, I had the opportunity to observe The Marijuana Education Initiative's program.It is an interactive and visually insightful program, making it an appropriate curriculum for middle school kids. The facts learned from this program enable these children to make an educated choice when confronted with marijuana. As an adult I learned so many things I didn't know about marijuana."
A Colorado native, Molly has a passion for providing educational opportunities for the youth in this state. During her seven-year tenure as the counselor at a small alternative school in Steamboat Springs, her students began asking for support in their attempts to become less dependent on marijuana. Putting her education and social work background to work, she decided to create a curriculum that could help the youth in states with legalized marijuana do just that.
She has a BA in English, with a secondary teaching certificate from Colorado State University, and a master’s in social work from the University of Washington, with an emphasis in school social work. She has worked in schools her entire professional career. Her most recent position is as counselor at Yampa Valley High School.
In early spring 2015, she and her team created the Marijuana Education Initiative out of a passion for providing unbiased information to youth who want to know and understand the effects marijuana has on their lives.
After working as a criminal and family law paralegal for many years, Sarah decided to follow her passion and pursue a career in education. She returned to college and earned a BA in education with an endorsement in K–12 special education. Sarah later earned additional endorsements in language arts and health. She has worked with special education students in middle school and high school, and for the past four and a half years she has worked at Yampa Valley High School, an alternative education campus in Steamboat Springs.
In addition to being the special education resource manager, she was the language arts and health teacher. In her capacity as health teacher, she created and implements yearly health, wellness, and sexual education courses. She contributes her skills and experience as an educator to Marijuana Education Initiative to create unbiased, reality-based marijuana Prevention and Intervention curricula.
Over the years, Jen has worked in a variety of settings, from outpatient wrap-around services for juvenile court to wilderness treatment programs and private practice. She developed a successful transition program for Second Nature Wilderness Program before she started supporting families in transition through her private practice and now solely through Solutions Transitional Support.
She acquired clinical experience working with a multitude of populations, specifically adolescents, young adults, their parents, and families. She is an expert in the field of parenting coaching for parents who are transitioning their children from home and long-term treatment programs.
