🌟 Big News: Project ALERT 2026-27 Curriculum & All-New Online Educator Training Are Here! 🌟

We’re thrilled to unveil the brand new Project ALERT 2026-27 curriculum—packed with fresh updates and teacher-driven improvements to make your classroom experience even better! In this year’s edition:

• Find the latest statistics from the Monitoring the Future survey, so you’ll have the most up-to-date information on youth substance use at your fingertips

• Lesson 4 slides now include information about the substance being promoted and the celebrity doing the promotion to support real conversations with your students.

• We’ve also made many small but meaningful tweaks throughout the curriculum based on your feedback, making lessons more interactive, relevant, and easy to teach.

But that’s not all! Our new online educator training, led by the dynamic Miss Jane, is designed to set you up for success. Miss Jane will walk you through everything you need to know about Project ALERT, including interactive knowledge checks on substance use trends and student perceptions of risk and harm. You’ll dive into the pressures students face, see demonstrations of core teaching strategies, and get practical tips just in case things don’t go as planned. The training wraps up with a quick lesson-by-lesson overview and a final assessment—pass it and you’ll earn your official Project ALERT certification!

Even if you’ve done the training in the past, this revised training provides all new content that is a valuable refresher in about an hour. Click on Online Training on the top of the page to log in and get started.

Adolescents are bombarded with messages that glamorize drugs and alcohol and disguise the real-world consequences that can change a teen's life forever. That's why every student needs the tools to make healthy decisions about substance use.

Project ALERT is a free, easy to use substance use prevention program that can be delivered during any course during school hours or in programs outside of school time, and can be delivered by any adult. The curriculum is series of lessons that uses the power of practice and repetition to give students the self-efficacy, skills, and resources to resist peer pressure and misleading messaging to use substances. 

The goals of Project ALERT are explicit:

1. To prevent adolescents from beginning to use substances

2. To prevent those who have already experimented from becoming regular users

3. To prevent or curb risk factors for substance use

Project ALERT is an evidence-based curriculum, meaning statistics and long-term survey research define Project ALERT’s success. Unlike most other programs, Project ALERT has been and continues to be thoroughly tested in multi-year, multi-community studies. This scientific validation means that administrators and teachers know what the program can deliver, who it can impact, and the effort involved in making its results last. Project ALERT is proven to motivate students against drug use, provide skills and strategies to resist drugs, and establish new non-use attitudes and beliefs. 

Project ALERT is designed to be delivered over two years. In the first year, typically 7th grade, students receive the initial 11 Lessons, or Core Curriculum. In the second year students receive three Booster Lessons that are critical for maintaining early prevention gains. Each lesson takes about a class period but can be adapted to fit into shorter instructional blocks like Advisory and Homeroom. Both the Core Curriculum and Booster Lessons offer a variety of activities and instructional materials (e.g., Project ALERT videos and posters).