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Emily's Hope Substance Use Prevention Curriculum

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What’s New

Based on your feedback, emerging trends, and research, we consistently evaluate and update our curriculum, supporting materials, and educator experience. Have an idea? Please share your feedback.

1.2.0

August 28, 2025

Welcome back for another exciting school year! We’ve made some major updates to Emily’s Hope Substance Use Prevention Curriculum. This year, we’re proud to introduce our Middle School curriculum. We have several exciting initiatives on the roadmap for this school year, including the establishment of an Educator Training Center and Spanish translations.

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Changes to lessons + supporting materials

  • 3rd Grade Animations – In our 3rd grade lessons, two videos were moved to better align with lesson plan topics.
  • Kindergarten book – Introducing Taking Care of Me with Emily and Friends, a new book for our Kindergarten students.

Teacher Hub improvements

  • Navigation improvements
  • Grade-level landing page improvements
  • Accessibility updates
  • Help Center to provide additional guidance for educators and primary contacts
  • Pre- and Post-Assessments
    • No longer called Pre- and Post-Surveys
    • The requirement to administer pre-suveys is no longer locking access to Teacher Hub
    • Both Pre- and Post-Assessment links are emailed immediately upon onboarding
  • Onboarding improvements

What’s next?

  • Building out our Help Center with additional articles and supports for educators
  • Educator Training Center
    • Initial Educator Training Center Module
    • Additional In-Depth Modules
  • Spanish translations
  • High School Curriculum

1.1.0

August 19, 2024

We’ve made several improvements for the 2024-25 school year for grades K-5. The lessons have not changed in substance, but some supporting materials and processes have been improved based on your feedback.

  • Improved surveys
    • We’re using Survey Monkey to allow us cleaner data from the pre-curriculum and post-curriculum surveys that are critical to Emily’s Hope’s goal to move the curriculum from promising practice to evidence-based
    • Revised questions to focus less on the student’s test-taking abilities and more on the content
    • Visuals added to all answers to support multiple learning styles
    • Ability to request a report after teaching the curriculum to see student outcomes at the classroom or district level
    • Clearer instructions for educators on how to administer the surveys
  • New interactive activities
    • 4th Grade – Medication Safety: Interactive Good Choice / Bad Choice game
    • 5th Grade – My Brain on Substances: Interactive The Stroop Effect game
  • Added American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Mindsets and Behavior standards to each lesson
  • 5th grade e-Book
  • Vocabulary definitions added to all lesson plans
  • Added step to “review I can… statements” to all lesson plans
  • Edits to exit tickets
  • Grammatical changes
  • Enhanced navigation in Teacher Hub
  • Re-enrollment processes for schools

1.0.0

September 4, 2023

The Emily’s Hope Substance Use Prevention Curriculum was launched for grades K-5 with our new interactive Teacher Hub.

0.1.0

November 4, 2022

The Emily’s Hope Substance Use Prevention curriculum launched a pilot program for third-grade.