The "Story Behind the Curve" helps us understand the causes and forces at that work that explain the data behind AVOID.

The AVOID curriculum started off strong with 223 total students and was taught to grades 6-8 at Robbinsville Middle School, during the fall semester. The curriculum is five sessions and each session builds on the previous session. The curriculum goes over what vapes are, what chemicals are in vapes, nicotine, advertising (past and present), and predicting the future of vaping. There is hands on activities for the middle schoolers to participate in and to interact with one another. It opens up discussion about vaping and why it is bad, why they shouldn't vape or why they should stop if they are currently vaping, and gives them an indept look at vaping. 

What's Helping What We Do? These are the positive forces at work in our strategy/ program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Support from the PE teachers

• Support from Mountain Projects

What's Hurting What We Do? These are the negative forces at work in our strategy/program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Only reaching students who take PE

• The AVOID curriculum is only 5 sessions.

• Students not actively participating during all the sessions.

The following actions have been identified by our team as ideas for what can work for this performance measure to make a difference on vaping.

Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Team These are actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Hold sessions during the fall and spring semesters.
• Eventually reaching out to more students, not just in PE.
• Helping the material to be more relatable to the students. 

No-cost and Low-cost Ideas Identified by Our Team These are no-cost and low-cost actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Possible prizes for activities during the sessions.
• Finding other activities to engage the students. 

What communities served/customers think would work to do better These are actions and approaches that our communities served/customers think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Remove vapes 
• More education on vaping outside of the school.

List of Questions/Research Agenda These are questions to follow-up on for this performance measure. If you still need more information about what works to do better, make these questions part of your information & research agenda.

• How can we get the students to be more active during the sessions?
• What can we do better to get the information to stick?
• How do we come across as more approachable to the students?