Programs
One session, taught by students, backed by data.
FRI runs three connected programs. The school session is the product. The peer facilitator network is what makes it scale. The advocacy work is what makes it matter beyond the rooms we are in.
Flagship program
The 75-minute school session
The supply chain
Where fentanyl actually comes from: precursor chemicals synthesized in China, processed and pressed by cartel networks in Mexico, distributed through US ports of entry and street markets. Students leave able to explain why the pill in front of them exists.
Pharmacology and overdose recognition
How opioids suppress respiration, why fentanyl potency makes counterfeit pills unpredictable, and what an overdose looks like in the first minutes — including what it does not look like.
California's Good Samaritan Law (AB 472)
What legal protection students actually have when they call 911 for someone who is overdosing. Fear of arrest is one of the most common reasons bystanders wait; the session addresses it directly.
Hands-on naloxone training
Practice with nasal naloxone: recognition, administration, positioning, calling 911, and what happens after. Every student leaves with a free naloxone kit.
Pre- and post-session assessment
Knowledge checks before and after the session measure what changed. These results are the evidence base for the advocacy work — not marketing numbers.
Sessions delivered to date: [X sessions] · Students trained: [X students] · Naloxone kits distributed: [X kits]. These figures will be published here once real sessions have run.
Model
The peer facilitator network
High school students are trained to run the full session independently at their own schools. Facilitators learn the curriculum, the naloxone demonstration, the legal content, and how to handle the conversations that follow a session about overdose.
The test we hold ourselves to
The program has to be able to run with the founder not in the building. A session that only happens when one person shows up is a personal project. A session that happens because a trained student at that school runs it is an organization. Every design decision — the curriculum, the training, the free naloxone sourcing — is made against that test.
Advocacy
Policy work
Pre- and post-session assessment data is used to make an evidence-based case to LAUSD and LA County Substance Abuse Prevention and Control for institutionalizing school-based naloxone access — stocked kits, trained staff, and standing curriculum, rather than one-off assemblies. The same work connects to the upstream argument: school naloxone is a bridge intervention, not a solution to a supply chain problem.
The full policy caseSourcing
Where the naloxone comes from
Naloxone is obtained at no cost through California's public health infrastructure: the CDPH Naloxone Distribution Project, NEXT Distro, and LA County's Substance Abuse Prevention and Control division. Nothing is purchased, and nothing depends on personal or family donors. Any school or student organizer in California can access the same channels — that is the point.