Learning Objectives: Describe key community partnerships needed to support a successful tobacco prevention and control program. Describe the steps and tools necessary to develop an effective site-coordinator system. Identify best practices in school-based prevention and cessation curricula and materials.
Abstract: School-based programs which hope to address youth tobacco use must be as comprehensive as possible, or they will see only limited success. Starting in 1996, the Tobacco-Free Ways Schools (TFWS) project at La Frontera Center, Inc., part of the Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program (AzTEPP), created a system of site-based tobacco use prevention, cessation and control which has served as a model for the rest of the state to use with public, charter and alternative schools. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction address the need to develop comprehensive programming. TFWS, using these guidelines, developed a planning and implementation approach which allows schools to address the three critical aspects of school-based tobacco prevention planning: breadth, depth and duration. CDC selected this program as part of its proposed online Best Practices program. This workshop will describe the steps necessary to overcome obstacles with school districts, school administrators, faculty, staff, students and families. The workshop provides hands-on practice with tools to: develop year-long, site-based tobacco prevention plans; provide in-class instruction using research-based curricula in middle and elementary schools; set up a successful tobacco cessation programs in high schools; enforce campus tobacco policies; develop student activism; set up smoke-free homes with families; establish school staff training. Methods of evaluation will be discussed. Participants will receive a CD-ROM with sample Planning Guides, fax-ready reporting forms for sites, program activity notification faxback forms, and other relevant documents.
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