Teachers
Donate Life Northwest, in collaboration with Cascade Life Alliance, provides free donation education resources for grades 7 - 12 and trained presenters to over 500 private, public, and driver ed educators in Oregon and SW Washington. Our classroom presentation and teach-it-yourself materials meet the Oregon state health standard HS.WHP.6 on the topic of organ and tissue donation.
Teach-It-Yourself
As part of Oregon's organ, eye, and tissue donation education requirement (ORS 336.474), Cascade Life Alliance and Donate Life Northwest have developed a teacher-led approach that makes it easy to integrate this education requirement into your existing health curriculum. The Teach-It-Yourself (TIY) resources provide everything you need to confidently deliver this important health lesson and meet the new health education requirement (HS.WHP.6). By empowering Oregon health teachers to deliver this education directly, we can ensure all students across Oregon receive consistent and equitable instruction, allowing this topic to reach far more students than would be possible through individual teacher requests and community presenters alone. While this resource was developed with Oregon health teachers in mind, we welcome all educators to use this curriculum who wish to, no matter their location or subject.
- Teach-It-Yourself Kit
- Fill out this form to gain access to our Teach-It-Yourself kit, including presentation slides, videos, and supplemental materials.
- You will also be provided with training and support resources to ensure you feel confident in delivering this important information.
- When filling out the form, you are also welcome to request a Storytelling Volunteer, or a guest speaker who can come into your class and share their story of their personal experiences with organ, eye, and tissue donation to help supplement your teacher-led instruction. Storytelling Volunteers need 15-20 minutes per class period.
- Full Curriculum
- Download the 2023 Go Recycle Yourself curriculum-- a free, comprehensive and Common Core Standard-aligned resource designed for Health, Health Careers, Science, Leadership, and Driver Ed classrooms. Features beginning and advanced readings, lessons, handouts, activities, and local stories to share in classrooms. Go Recycle Yourself: Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation Curriculum
- Contact us for PowerPoint or Google Slides associated with the Teacher-Led Basic Presentation as found in the curriculum.
More resources are available to download. You can request other materials directly from Donate Life Northwest online!
Free In-Class or Virtual Presentations
What's a Donate Life Northwest presentation like? Watch this video to learn more or view the 2026-2027 Presentation Outline to get an idea about presentations from Donate Life Northwest.
Our Service Area for full presentations:
Oregon (all Counties)
- Biology, Anatomy, or other Science Classes
- Driver Education programs
- Upper-Level Health Classes (outside of Oregon's Health Education requirement)
SW Washington (Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania, and Walla Walla Counties)
- All-level Health Classes
- Biology, Anatomy, or other Science Classes
- Driver Education programs
Educators in Oregon or SW Washington can request free presentations about donation and transplantation, presented by Donate Life Northwest staff or highly-trained volunteers. Presentations are subject to the availability of speakers.
We have student presentation materials available in English and Spanish.
A parent/family/guardian letter from DLNW is available here if you'd like to send it home prior to your presentation date.
Need a graphic organizer for students during our Go Recycle Yourself classroom presentation?
Service Learning Projects: Donor Designation Drives
We support students and student groups wishing to organize campus donor designation drives with free materials and mentoring. Contact us to get started. Also check out our video on how to run a donor drive.
Contact
503-494-7888 or education@donatelifenw.org
