Decision-Making

The goal of this unit is for students to demonstrate the ability to apply decision-making strategies and skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.

Decision Making: Sequential personal and social skills comprised of multiple subskills, that when performed together, enable an individual to make well informed choices that enhance personal, family and community health.

Decision-Making covers the following topics:

• IDEAL Decision Making Model
• Influences on Personal Decisions
• Internal and External Pressure
• Who is Doing What? -- "Norms"
• Evaluating Internet Resources

Health Content Highlight:  Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs

• Addiction
• Drug Categories
• Affects of Drugs on the Body
• The Relationship Between Drug Use and Diseases
• Reasons to Stay Drug Free
• School Resource Officer - Guest Speaker

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• The Prevention Council - Saratoga, NY
• SADD -- Students Against Destructive Decisions
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Freevibe.com
• Parents - The anti-drug
• American Cancer Society
• DEA -- The Drug Enforcement Agency -- Federal Drug Laws

Grades for this unit will include, but are not limited to the following assignments:

• Decision Making Packet
• Decision Making Game Project

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