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Students Taking Action, Not Drugs (STAND)

This online curriculum includes nine lesson plans to help your students make public service announcements (PSAs) that can be aired or displayed to a large national audience.

The STAND (Students Taking Action, Not Drugs) project invites young people to use the power of mass media to design, create and deliver meaningful messages to help other teens resist drug use.

This online curriculum includes nine lesson plans to help your students make public service announcements (PSAs) that can be aired or displayed to a large national audience. The STAND project combines the powerful and important goal of helping build young people's resiliency to help them avoid the pressures to use drugs.  The goal of these activities is to involve students in active-message analysis, design and construction, strengthening their critical thinking, reasoning and communication skills.