Learning Objectives: demonstrate an understanding of tobacco issues relating to college campuses, including prevalence, policy, administration, peer education, and tobacco industry influence; understand the basic steps for organizing college advocacy coalitions, including barriers, challenges, and tips for success; and be familiar with the college campus assessment tools and evaluation techniques.
Abstract: This program is designed specifically for college campus advocates (students, faculty and staff) and agency personnel addressing campus-specific tobacco problems. The California Youth Advocacy Network’s (CYAN) experience is this area includes providing extensive training and technical assistance to college students, faculty and staff, as well as agencies working with local community and state colleges, universities and private institutions.
This program will be presented in two-parts. Part I of the program will cover extensive information regarding campus-based initiatives, including: implementing comprehensive assessments of campus tobacco issues; evaluating these assessments, creating strategies to involve students; developing campus coalitions; identifying key leaders on campus and in the community; overcoming barriers and challenges to campus-based tobacco control initiatives; understanding the campus administration; and developing, implementing and enforcing campus-based policies.
Part II of the program will focus on the establishment of a comprehensive statewide movement to create change at the highest system level. In California, there are 23 public colleges, 9 university campuses and dozens of private and community colleges. While successful changes are being made at the campus level, a system-wide policy regarding tobacco use, or other tobacco issues, would be a major achievement. Participants will hear about California’s effort to make such a change in the California State University system. Strategies include: organizing students, student groups, faculty, staff and tobacco control agencies on a statewide level; understanding the procedures for making a system-wide change; and learning more about the stakeholders including the many unions involved with each system.
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