Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Program
CATCH My Breath is an evidence-based youth nicotine vaping prevention program that will provide your students with the skills to resist peer pressure and media influences to try e-cigarettes. The sessions can be taught during a normal class period, during homeroom, student enrichment time, after-school, or at other non-school activities and clubs.
Curriculum Goals and Rationale
The overall goal of CATCH My Breath is to prevent the initiation of e-cigarette use among preteen and teen adolescents. The program is designed to help students:
- Discover that non-use of e-cigarettes is the norm for adolescents
- Identify reasons why young people might start using e-cigarettes
- Recognize the subtle, and not so subtle, messages in e-cigarette advertising
- Practice skills for resisting peer pressure and advertising pressure to use e-cigarettes
- Decide on their personal reasons not to use e-cigarettes and set goals for future non-use
The intended outcomes are to ensure that students will:
- Resist their own curiosity, peer and advertising pressure to experiment with e-cigarettes
- Understand that e-cigarettes are addictive, unhealthy, and not as popular as they think
- Influence friends and peers not to use e-cigarettes
Program Structure
The CATCH My Breath Program (grades 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12) consists of 4 unique lessons for each grade group, that are approximately 35 minutes each. Each session includes a lesson plan with learner outcomes, a detailed outline of directions, and all materials including corresponding slide deck presentations. Educational Strategies Used:
- Social emotional learning (SEL)
- Peer-facilitated cooperative learning groups*
- Large-group discussions
- Analysis of mass media
- Goal setting
*The use of peer group facilitators ensures cultural appropriateness for students across socioeconomic groups, cultures, ethnicities, and regions in the United States. In addition, same-age peers are more likely than teachers or outsiders to speak the same “peer language” and have the same perspective as the students.
Program Overview
Ages: 10-18 Years
Duration: Four Lessons (30-40 Minutes Each)
Cost: Completely FREE!
Contact Us
859.225.3296
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catchmybreath.org
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