Audience: Youth leaders and youth serving professionals Key Points: see below Learning Objectives: Program implementation, youth-adult partnerships Benefits: Shared experience in program implementation

In 2006 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Colorado (The Center) received funding from The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment under a tobacco disparities grant. The Center served in a lead agency role, overseeing seven pilot projects for GLBT tobacco prevention and cessation. The Center's Youth Services space, Rainbow Alley, was one of the seven sites and completed six pilot projects. The projects centered around training, events, outreach and media literacy. Youth Facilitators were trained on topics such as how the media targets GLBT youth, street outreach strategies and audience control for large group speaking. Projects included tobacco education at Queer Prom and Cinco de Mayo, street outreach (along with a smoke-free youth hang out space) at Denver PrideFest and a media literacy night. Starting in July of 2007, the Youth Services program of The Center will be the lead agency for 6-8 prevention programs for GLBT youth around the state. Rainbow Alley relies on youth-adult partnerships for all programming. Youth plan and co-facilitate activities and the Youth Leadership Council joins with staff around policy creation and implementation. Adult staff and youth facilitators will present the process of tobacco program implementation and plans for the future. Youth serving professionals and youth leaders looking to implement new tobacco programming will learn specific strategies to support their process.