For Educators

Empowering Students Through Awareness

Educators are essential partners in prevention and early intervention. Be Healthy Mesa supports schools with prevention-aligned resources, positive messaging, and tools that reinforce student safety and wellness.

Prevention Tools

Classroom Messaging

Naloxone & Overdose Response

Student Support Resources

What Educators Can Do

What you can do this week (in 10 minutes):

Reinforce that students can ask for help without shame
Use calm, factual language about counterfeit pills
Share a prevention resource with families
Encourage kindness and peer support as a protective factor
Remind students: only medication from a doctor + pharmacy is safe

Build a Culture of Care

Prevention is not just a lesson—it’s a culture.

Schools are strongest when students feel connected, supported, and safe asking for help.

Recommended strategies:

Integrate prevention and wellness topics into advisory or existing curriculum
Normalize help-seeking and mental wellness supports
Reinforce respectful, stigma-free language
Recognize warning signs and connect students to support services
Collaborate with partners to host assemblies and prevention events

Arizona Stop-It Toolkit

Arizona Department of Education STOP-IT Toolkit

Educators can access additional prevention resources at: azed.gov/stopit

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