The School-based Standards are a national resource designed •. reducing the number of Standards from 18 to 17; to empower program delivery within schools and to assist •. enhancing the Evaluation and Monitoring section; program deliverers to enhance, monitor and evaluate their •. clarifying the Standards’ target audience; and efforts on an ongoing basis. [...] The School-based Standards call for school-based Thus, the School-based Standards and the Community- teams to implement a comprehensive approach to prevention based Standards are companions, encouraging school- and that includes attention to the school’s social and physical community-based teams to strive toward coordinated, broader environments, teaching and learning, partnerships and services, e [...] The Standards documents are supported by two databases to assist in the application of the Standards: a Database of Prevention Resources* to aid in the understanding and implementation of the Standards, and a Database of Canadian Prevention Initiatives** for those looking for examples of initiatives that have been assessed against the Standards When communities approach the prevention of substance [...] This makes •. schools are usually a reflection of the larger sense because the first maturity physically, community in terms of patterns of substance use experience of substance psychologically or and associated factors; use is usually during adolescence, and use socially, and substance •. many of the immediate harms are of concern at this age can interfere use may affect brain to the general comm [...] To address the current status of drug education, it is important to know the extent Before deciding on a plan it is important to know to which scope and sequence are being followed, teacher and the status of health promotion and prevention in student satisfaction, whether interactive teaching methods (a the school.