Middle School

ReachOut is a strengths-based prevention and early intervention model offering classroom resources on a variety of topics including friendships.

Excellent 8th Grade Lesson Plan on Refusal Skills..

The Power of a Positive No: Willie Bohanon & Friends Learn the Power of Resisting Peer Pressure (Urban Character Education) (Willie Bohanon Urban Character Education) Paperback – Picture Book, September 15, 2016 by Kip Jones 

Many different cartoon stars like Bugs Bunny, the Muppet Babies and Garfield join forces to convince a teenager that drugs aren't cool.

Subscribe to Fresberg's YouTube channel for educational and leadership cartoons to watch with kids.

Use these scenarios from Stopteendui.com to role-play and practice refusal skills to stop drinking and driving.

Read the refusal skills ideas and ask your youth to devise their own.

Watch National Geographic's Brain Games episode on social conformity to learn that conforming is normal and sometimes healthy, and when it is not.

Watch Disney's Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and practice refusal skills starting at around age 8-10 depending upon your child's developmental maturity.

Watch this video and create a drawing with your kids depicting how they would say 'No'.