TOBACCO USE PREVENTION EDUCATION

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Program Overview:
Because tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in America, Student Support and Health Services has placed a priority on protecting our students from tobacco's health impact. The PYD team uses special grant funds and tobacco tax entitlement money from the California Department of Education to both prevent students from beginning to smoke and to help them quit if they have already started.

Tobacco Prevention Programs Currently in Place:

LifeSkills Training curriculum (grades 4-8):
LifeSkills is a multi-component substance abuse and violence prevention curriculum used by classroom teachers to build necessary life skills in the students such as decision-making, handling peer pressure, coping with anxiety, anger and positive communication. Use of this curriculum has been shown to reduce the abuse of harmful substances and violence.
www.lifeskillstraining.com

Project SUCCESS (grades 10-12):
Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) prevents and reduces substance abuse among high school adolescents by placing highly trained professionals in schools to provide a full range of substance use prevention and early intervention services. These include normative and preventive education, counseling and skills training, problem identification and referral, community-based processes, and environmental approaches.
www.sascorp.org/

Link Crew (grades 9-12):
Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, Link Crew trains members of the junior and senior class to be Link Leaders. As positive role models, Link Leaders are motivators, leaders and teachers who guide the freshmen to discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to high school.
www.boomerangproject.com/linkcrew/

Club Live/Friday Night Live (grades 7-12):
Club Live and Friday Night Live clubs work toward setting a campus norm that is against alcohol and other drug use while at the same time promoting positive youth development.
www.fridaynightlive.org

Teens Tackle Tobacco: Triple T (grades 9-12):
Triple T Project curriculum is used by teachers to educate students about tobacco and then assist them with the development of anti-tobacco media such as videos, posters and murals to create and reinforce anti-tobacco norms on their campuses.

Links and Resources:*
Breathe California of Sacramento – Emigrant Trails is dedicated to healthy air and preventing lung and other air-pollution related diseases by partnering with youth, advocating public policy, supporting air pollution research, and educating the public. www.sacbreathe.org/index.htm

The California Smokers' Helpline is a telephone and web-based program that can help you quit smoking. Helpline services are free, funded by the California Department of Health. When you go online, a series of choices are available to walk you through the steps to quitting. When you call, a friendly staff person will offer a choice of services: self-help materials, a referral list of other programs, and one-on-one counseling over the phone. www.californiasmokershelpline.org or 1-800-NO-BUTTS

The American Heart Association’s mission is to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. www.americanheart.org

The Centers for Disease Control's comprehensive site for young people and adults including facts about smoking, chewing and secondhand smoke, resources about how to quit and access to previously secret tobacco industry documents. www.cdc.gov/tobacco

The Truth website is from the clever young people that create the "truth" anti-tobacco ads on television. In their own words, "the whole point of the truth is to get people to think for themselves and make their own decisions" about tobacco. www.thetruth.com

*These links are listed as a courtesy to our website visitors. While these site are offered as a resource for our visitors, the Elk Grove Unified School District does not control the information contained in the linked websites and accepts no liability for any information.

Contacts:
Positive Youth Development Team:
Shirley Arroyo, Positive Youth Development Coordinator
Tami Silvera, Positive Youth Development Project Implementor
Jennifer Ballerini, Program Assistant
Barbara Curry, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor
Chenetta Briggs, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor
Yvette Childs, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor

Mailing Address:
Student Support and Health Services
c/o PYD Programs
Elk Grove Unified School District
9510 Elk Grove-Florin Road
Elk Grove, CA 95624

Telephone:
(916) 686-7568

FAX:
(916) 686-7596