QUESTION WHY

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YOUTH EMPOWERED SOLUTIONS

YES! empowers youth, in partnership with adults, to create community change. Visit the YES! website.

COMMUNITY CHANGE CHRONICLES

This special series of articles will help you to understand the way specific policy changes were made.  We hope that by showcasing a few specific examples you too will find the inspiration to make a change in your community as well.  How will you add to the community change chronicles?

Smoke-Free Dining Alamance
Biscuitville Restaurant Chain Goes Smoke-Free
Mitchell Co. Schools Pilot Tobacco-Free Schools
Women’s Shelter Bans Smoking
Haliwa-Saponi Pow-Wow Goes Smoke-Free
Family Recreation Center Goes Smoke-Free
Durham Public Schools Adopts Tobacco Free Policy
Girls Scouts Create a Tobacco Prevention Badge
Asheville Youth Hangouts Adopt Stronger Tobacco Policies
Pender Public Schools Adopt Tobacco Free Policy

ADULTS

-Underage Tobacco Sale Laws Toolkit

-TFS Toolkit

-Price and Initiation Tools

-Recruitment and Retention Toolkit

-Management Help Library

YOUTH

-Icebreakers – Get your youth group or audience warmed up before getting started with a presentation. Check out our icebreaker resource. It has several ideas for you to try.

-Chemical Box – Ever wonder what is in a cigarette? This activity outline will help you teach current members or others in your community with a “show and tell” like activity that gives away all of the disgusting ingredients of tobacco products.

-BB Activity – This oldie but goodie shows how to put tobacco use in it’s proper perspective. If an audience understands that illicit drugs and alcohol are bad for public health, then tobacco’s harm will be seen as larger than life in comparison.

-Advocacy Menu – Continue to work on tobacco prevention advocacy over the summer! Here are some ideas for things to do in your local area.

-ASPIRE (A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience) Great tool for youth whether they are advocates or tobacco users that want to know more.

-Emerging Tobacco Products Brochure – Stay ahead of the tobacco industry and learn what about new products they are putting on the shelves.