The Health Department offers tobacco
prevention programs for students throughout
Jefferson
County. If
you have a need for youth tobacco prevention, please contact us! These programs
are offered at no charge and run about one hour.
For more information or to schedule a
presentation, please call (636) 282-1010 extension 268, or
contact us
through our website.
TATU:
Teens Against Tobacco Use
This program
is designed to teach high school students how to present tobacco education
programs to elementary school students.
This is a 5 hour training and provides participants with activities and
materials to create their own tobacco education programs.
STOP:
Smoke-free Teens on Purpose
BJC
Healthcare’s program is designed to help middle and high school age students to
stop one of the most difficult habits-using tobacco.
The program is facilitated by a BJC health educator during school hours for
eight weeks.
Tar Wars:
4th Grade - 5th Grade
A one hour
tobacco prevention program from the American
Academy
of Family Physicians and presented by the Jefferson County Health
Department. This program focuses on peer pressure
and refusal skills as well as how tobacco advertising tries to manipulate youth.
ABC’s of
Tobacco: 6th Grade
This is a
one hour prevention program for 6th graders that presents information about how
tobacco affects the Air, Body and Cost.
Tobacco
Use and Influence: 7th
grade - 12th grade
This one
hour prevention program addresses refusal skills and the harms and marketing of
tobacco.
Daycare
Prevention:
Summer
A
summertime, 45 minute anti-tobacco presentation to school aged children at
licensed daycares.
Advocacy
Youth participation in the stand against
tobacco is very important. Youth provide a fresh perspective on the problem of
tobacco use, and the intelligence and boldness to challenge the social norms
surrounding this issue. This is why the Health Department, in partnership with
other community organizations, trains area high schools students on what it
takes to be effective advocates against tobacco use.
The goals of these trainings are for students
to learn how to advocate for smoke-free environments and begin to develop skills
to advocate in a variety of venues. As a result of this training, student groups
are beginning to be formed with the purpose of taking a stand against tobacco
use in their schools and communities.
Our trained youth advocates
utilize local media to address the burden of tobacco by educating residents
about tobacco and resources to quit. Students use their advocacy skills and creativity to produce
articles, posters, radio spots and
billboard ads.
According to Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
2006, the tobacco industry spends
more than $12.4 billion per year and over $34.1 million a day marketing it's
deadly products in the U.S. alone and about 460 million dollars a year marketing
to Missourians.