School Drug Education and Road Aware (SDERA)

At SDERA we’re committed to helping build a better world by educating and empowering today’s youth. Our range of evidence-based drug and road safety education resources can be used to deliver age-appropriate content and key messages relating to health, safety, and resilience. We also provide face-to-face professional learning designed to equip educators better working with children and young people.

Our Products/ Services:

• Smart Steps: The road can be a dangerous place for young children. The Smart Steps road safety program has been specially designed for educators of children under eight. Facilitating a partnership between educators and parents/carers guides young children’s learning and helps them to become safe and independent road users.
• Keys For Life: Young people are consistently over-represented in road crash statistics. Keys for Life is a national award-winning comprehensive, evidence-based pre-driver program that assists parents, schools, and agencies in educating young people about safe road use. It also provides licensing and graduation benefits.
• Chat: An award-winning whole school initiative, Changing Health Acting Together (CHAT) is designed to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes for the entire school community.
• Challenges and Choices Resources: Available to suit early years, primary and secondary education, Challenges and Choices is our core resilience, drug, and road safety education program. A comprehensive teaching and learning resource, the program provides a range of learning activities with age-appropriate content for students K-10.
• Professional Learning: Designed to build the capacity of educators working with children & young people and their parents, SDERA’s range of face-to-face professional learning enables participants to deliver best practice resilience, road safety, and drug education programs.