STORYTELLING • ARTS • CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

Storytelling for Healthier Choices

Explore WHEEL’s free learning materials, combining storytelling, the arts and cultural knowledge to help young people make healthier choices.
storytelling
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culture
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evidence based
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HIV prevention
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Substance Abuse prevention
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emotional health
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teens
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curriculum
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THE RESOURCE LIBRARY

Open a Book.
Start Something.

Explore WHEEL’s curriculum and teaching guides.
PDF details and access options on each resource’s page
STORYTELLING & YOUTH PREVENTION

Storytelling PowerBook

25 lessons combining stories and interactive activities.

MULTICULTURAL TEACHING

The Learning Wheel

Teaching approaches that bring cultural knowledge into learning.
FACILITATOR'S MANUAL

The Storytelling Project

Eleven activities for guiding storytelling and learning

From left to right: Nola Krajewski, former Youth Coordinator; Annabelle Nelson, President; Kari Buck, Corporate Treasurer; Dora Rodriguez, Executive Director.

MEET THE WHEEL COUNCIL

Learning Begins
With Connection.

The WHEEL Council – Wholistic Health, Education, and Empowerment for Life – is a national leader in storytelling for prevention and healing, as well as accelerated, multicultural learning.

OUR VISION is to create programs that merge traditional cultural knowledge with scientific research to facilitate healthy life choices.

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BEHIND THE SCENES

Creativity.
With Research Behind it.

Our evidence-based approach brings together culture and storytelling to support substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention among teens. Explore the studies behind our programs.

2003

Reducing Alcohol and Marijuana Use

This study examined how storytelling, cultural empowerment and creative activities could help youth aged 11–15 reduce alcohol and marijuana use and resist substance use.
2008

Building Connections Through Storytelling

This study used storytelling with 39 participants aged 8–17 to explore how friendships, caring adults and learning new skills supported youth across three community programs.
2015

Strengthening HIV Prevention Knowledge

This study involved 96 adolescents, averaging 12.2 years old, to examine how culturally grounded storytelling could strengthen HIV prevention knowledge, family communication and healthier choices.
Ideas in practice

Teaching Beyond
the Classroom Walls

STORYTELLING FOR EMPOWERMENT
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ARTS & CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
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HEALTHIER CHOICES
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SUPPORT THE WHEEL COUNCIL

Help keep these stories within reach.

Help us continue our work, of making evidence based, culturally affirming, storytelling products available at low costs. Our innovative products empower, affirm students and their family cultures and give them the attitudes, behaviors and skills to thrive and meet their goals.
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