Canejo Valley, California
Are you looking for honest, real reviews about Vive18’s drug prevention program? Can you believe the hype? Ashley Cooper from Canejo Valley, California speaks to bringing Vive18 speaker Tomas Barraza and what the process was like. If you’re looking for someone to work with your elementary, middle or high school students. We found them because they were the keynote speakers at the TUPE Tobacco Use Prevention Education conference for our whole county. I called them up to speak at our schools for an assembly and we set up a meeting. We met for about 15 minutes, laid out the ideas, threw around some possible dates. We got the paperwork done really, really quick. It got approved, worked through all the channels of the school district. And then before we even knew it, the day was here, Tomas Barraza came here, and our students had an absolutely great time. So it was a pretty easy process. I do recommend planning early because they fill up. Lots of people want to have Vive18 over on their campus.
Vive 18 is really the glue that has all those pieces of the puzzle. As campus coordinators, we are working really hard with classroom instruction, intervention programs, after school support. We’ve got parent education. By bringing them in and that energy, they’re able to weave in all of our messages so our students start to truly understand that we are here for them. They don’t have to be a statistic, that they are part of the solution, not the problem. And I recommend bringing out VIVE18 to come and really bring those puzzle pieces together for you, your school, and your students.
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Canejo Valley, California
Ashley Cooper works with Career Education, ASB and the TUPE Tobacco Use Prevention Education program in Canejo Valley, California. She saw Jake White and Tomas Barraza from Vive18 present their keynote speech at a youth conference and brought them to her schools to show her students how to have a great time without using substances.
“We were lucky enough to have VIVE18 on two of our campuses today. So pretty cool experience having VIVE18 come out with Tomas Barraza and really rally up our middle schoolers with a fun, filled, energetic, informational type of presentation and totally switch gears with our high school students who are part of our continuation academy so that they could really hear a to-the-heart, real world experience of overcoming. The message is not where you start, but it’s where you end up. So a lot of great things happening here in the Canaveral Valley Unified School District.
Students can get the wrong information from other students. So if we’re not having discussions as adults with the real information with the scientific background, they’re getting the wrong information. So going to them and having those uncomfortable conversations are the ones that are really going to matter to our students. And so bringing Vive18 in opens that door for our teachers to reinforce what they’re doing with their tobacco (TUPE) education and the curriculum that we provide them. But really hearing from someone that is an outside source, reinforcing what they’ve heard in the classroom, what their parents may or may not have been saying at home, really solidifies that message of those positive choices for the best future possible.
Canejo Valley, California
Administrator from Canejo Valley School District in California talks about Vive18 speaker Tomas Barraza who gave inspiring life direction to students in middle school and high school. The presentation was engaging, concise and helpful for their future. Drug use is so prevalent and it seems they have to make decisions around it everyday. Their exposure to vaping is also something that made them want to bring the Vive18 substance use prevention program into their schools within the district. His story of impact gave students the ability to see that there are other choices besides drinking, smoking, vaping or using drugs. If another principal asked about Vive18 he said, “do not hesitate!” It’s a great message that can help students make better choices and guide their lives.
