ACTS Education
Professional Learning That Moves From Awareness to Implementation
Equip K–12 schools, municipal agencies, community organizations, educators, administrators, and specialized support staff with evidence-based prevention methodologies, operational frameworks, and actionable strategies designed for coordinated, sustainable implementation across school and community systems.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PATHWAYS
Professional Learning Designed for
Different Ways You Serve
Targeted capacity-building frameworks engineered for district leaders, instructional staff, families, and student cohorts.
Parent & Community
Equip parents, caregivers, educators, family-engagement professionals, and community partners with current prevention knowledge, practical communication strategies, and tools that support safer choices at home and throughout the community.
Educator & Administrator
Build current knowledge of youth substance trends, strengthen prevention awareness, and apply practical strategies that support students, families, schools, and communities.
Student Training
K-12
Provide developmentally appropriate youth substance prevention education that strengthens awareness, recognition of potentially unsafe products and situations, safer decision-making, communication, peer-resistance, help-seeking, and trusted-adult strategies across K–12 grade bands.
Curriculum Implementation
Support effective use of the Tricky Treats™ curriculum through structured implementation guidance, instructional resources, and practical strategies for integrating prevention learning across classrooms, schools, and youth-serving programs.
FLAGSHIP YOUTH SUBSTANCE PREVENTION SYSTEM
Tricky Treats™:
More Than a Training
A comprehensive institutional prevention ecosystem engineered to establish lasting safety infrastructure, equip educational leaders with structured pedagogical frameworks, and sustain youth drug protection across multi-tier learning environments.
STRUCTURED TIME COMMITMENTS
Current Professional Learning
Explore role-specific delivery models designed to equip community leaders and school personnel with practical prevention methodologies.
Parent & Community
Equips families, caregivers, and local youth advocates with actionable situational awareness and supportive intervention strategies.
- Awareness Session: 60-90 min foundation on emerging risks and home-based prevention
- Interactive Seminar: 3-4 hrs deep-dive with scenario navigation and dialogue guides
- Full Training: 6.5 hrs comprehensive facilitation and community coalition readiness
Educator & Administrator
Empowers classroom teachers, school counselors, and district leaders with institutional protocols and evidence-based safety integration.
Awareness Session: 60-90 min institutional overview on threat patterns and staff vigilance
Interactive Seminar: 3-4 hrs staff development on classroom engagement and safety protocols
Full Training: 6.5 hrs Action plan, policy discussion, and compliance discussions
Student Training K–12
K-12 STUDENT PREVENTION FRAMEWORK
Developmentally Tailored Safety Strategies for Every Grade Band
Institutional prevention modules built to scale across school districts, educational agencies, and community partners. Practical, research-backed methodologies aligned with cognitive and social development.
GRADES K–2
Foundational safety awareness using simple language, visual supports, guided discussion, and trusted-adult strategies.
GRADES 3–5
Developmentally appropriate prevention instruction that builds recognition, communication, decision-making, and practical safety skills.
GRADES 6–8
Expanded prevention learning addressing peer influence, evolving substance risks, situational awareness, communication, and safer decision-making.
GRADES 9–12/Post Secondary
Age-appropriate prevention education emphasizing real-world substance trends, risk recognition, decision-making, peer dynamics, communication, and help-seeking
Training Format
Student Training is available:
Live online
In person*
60–90 minutes
Minimum 25 students
*In-person training requiring travel may include applicable travel and travel-related expenses.
Student Learning Materials
Applicable Tricky Treats™ student learning materials may be incorporated based on grade band, program design, and organizational needs.
This gives us room for the current journals, activity resources, and future grade-band materials without implying every training automatically includes every resource.
Designed for Flexible Implementation
Student Training can support prevention programming in schools, after-school programs, summer programs, youth organizations, community initiatives, small groups, health or SEL settings, and other structured youth-learning environments.
Institutional Cohort Booking Requirements
District-wide implementations require a minimum 30-day scheduling lead time. Modules include facilitator certification, administrative oversight portals, and post-session impact reporting.
Official vendor approvals & PO billing supported
CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION & ADOPTION
Bring Tricky Treats™
To Your
Organization
Seamlessly integrate evidence-based youth prevention education into your school district, regional service agency, or community organization. ACTS Education provides hands-on implementation partnerships that guide your team through administrative alignment, tailored rollout timelines, educator readiness, and long-term fidelity monitoring.
Travel Disclaimer: On-site district training and in-person facilitation workshops are subject to standard travel and accommodation policies. Fully interactive virtual sessions are available nationwide with zero logistical overhead.
BEYOND TRICKY TREATS™
Additional ACTS Education
Professional Development
In addition to our specialized substance prevention curriculum, ACTS Education provides specialized profession learning across essential academic, compliance, and behavioral domains for K-12 districts.
Institutional modules tailored to state standards and district strategic improvement plans.
VERIFIED EDUCATOR FEEDBACK
What Participants
Are Saying
Discover how districts across the country have integrated ACTS professional development to empower staff, standardize prevention protocols, and create safer school climates.
Master certification Training
Changing the Landscape Through Prevention
"The Tricky Treats program is powerful, preventative, informative... The awareness program will change the entire landscape of our society..."
Angela Thomas
Retired Veteran Special Education Educator, Renewed in Service
★★★★★
"Tricky Treats is a Great Program for Administrators, teachers, students and parents who are experiencing issue with treats that look like candy.”
Chiquita Anderson
Special Education Leader & Returning Educator
★★★★★
“I just completed the ACTS Tricky Treats training...created a really rich environment and a lot really great dialogue around the topic...”
Shannon Schafer
Detroit Health Department
★★★★★
“This training should be a Conference. There is so much valuable information. I can not wait to attend the ACTS Tricky Treats Conference.”
Willie Davis
Former School Administrator and Current Advocate
INSTITUTIONAL LICENSING & COHORTS
Planning Professional Learning
for a Group?
We provide streamlined organizational training pathways for school districts, regional education agencies, healthcare networks, community organizations, municipal partners, and other youth-serving organizations. Group training is available for cohorts of 25 or more participants, with organizational pricing based on training scope, delivery format, participant materials, and implementation needs. ACTS Education can also support formal purchase orders, volume-based pricing, and customized organizational billing processes to help simplify procurement while equipping staff with structured, high-impact prevention training.
Direct Purchase Order (PO)
Tiered volume rates for 25+ participants across schools or teams
Dedicated onboarding specialist
ENTERPRISE & DISTRICT BUYERS
Organizational documentation and vendor requirements can be addressed as part of the training inquiry and contracting process.
Become a certified trainer
Interested in Becoming a Certified Trainer?
Tricky Treats™ also offers a separate Certified Trainer pathway for individuals who want authorization to deliver approved Tricky Treats™ training.
Certification is different from participating in professional learning. Completing an Educator & Administrator Professional Learning session does not authorize participants to train others.
Certified Trainer pathways include:
Certified Parent Trainer
Certified Educator Trainer
Certified Master Trainer
Empowering educators, school districts, and public health partners with evidence-based prevention infrastructure, turnkey curriculum models, and specialized professional learning.
ACTS Education is the education division of Assisting Community with Transition and Service (ACTS) Consulting LLC, providing professional development, student learning, curriculum implementation, and customized educational support for schools, communities, municipalities, and youth-serving organizations.
Core Programs
Student Training K–12
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