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Generating Partnerships and Support
Generating Partnerships and Support
Sample Administration Letter (Word doc)
This is an example of a letter to school administrators asking them to partner with and support the N-O-T program.
Sample Community-Based Organization Letter (Word doc)
This is an example of a letter to community-based organizations asking them to partner with and support the N-O-T program.
Presentation for School Administrators (PowerPoint)
This short PowerPoint slide show is useful for recruiting school administrators to support the N-O-T program. It includes key features and benefits of N-O-T, facts about nicotine addiction among teens, and an overview of the N-O-T program.
Sample Funder Letter (Word doc)
This is an example of a letter to potential funders asking for financial assistance for the N-O-T program.
Materials for Facilitators These are links to external websites.
Preventing Tobacco Use and Addiction in Young People (PDF)
This leaflet explains how parents, students, teachers, administrators, and others can work together to help prevent tobacco use among young people.
Your Time, Their Future
This national public education campaign, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, encourages adults to get more involved in mentoring and other activities that encourage kids to avoid tobacco use.
Tobacco Prevention and Control Resource Catalogue
This catalog contains a number of resources to promote tobacco prevention such as educational materials, “Quit Kits,” and promotional items for use on campuses. NOTE: The American Lung Association is neither the manufacturer nor the seller of these products and takes no responsibility with respect to them. The American Lung Association does not endorse any specific product.
Media Campaign Resource Center (MCRC)
This site offers Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-licensed advertisements about smoking cessation, as well as guidance and technical assistance on how to use the materials.
Quitting Tobacco: Being Around Other Smokers…Without Smoking
This site offers suggestions on how to quit smoking and how to handle being around other smokers.
Youth Cessation Collaborative
Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative provides tools, resources and strategies that are the most effective in assisting youth to quit smoking.
Tobacco Free Earth
This site offers games, posters, videos and DVD’s, books, models, and other materials useful for tobacco prevention and cessation programs. NOTE: The American Lung Association is neither the manufacturer nor the seller of these products and takes no responsibility with respect to them. The American Lung Association does not endorse any specific product.
Tobacco.org: News and Information
This site provides links to current news and information related to tobacco.
My Last Dip
My Last Dip is a web-based intervention, designed to help chewing tobacco users aged 14 to 25 quit.
Data and Statistics These are links to external websites.
State of Lung Disease in Diverse Communities
The American Lung Association released this report in 2010, describing trends in tobacco use across the United States. Statistics and information are provided for the entire nation, as well as for individual states.
The American Cancer Society: Child and Teen Tobacco Use
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content
/PED_10_2X_Child_and_Teen_Tobacco_Use.asp
This site provides facts and special concerns about child and teen tobacco use.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
http://tobaccofreekids.org/
This site features statistics concerning tobacco use and its monetary costs, tobacco marketing, and tobacco-related deaths for each state.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/StateSystem/index.aspx
The State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors priority health-risk behaviors, including smoking, among youth and young adults. The YRBSS includes surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.
Helping Young Smokers Quit: Identifying Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation
http://helpingyoungsmokersquit.org/home
The Helping Young Smokers Quit (HYSQ) initiative is a multi-phase project that addresses the critical need to disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation programs for adolescent smokers. Findings from three phases of the research were presented at scientific conferences in May 2009, and can be found in the Publications section of the site.
Policies and Initiatives These are links to external websites.
Tobacco-Free Schools Policy Guide
http://www.health.state.ok.us/program/tobac/TobaccoFreeEnvironment21.pdf (PDF)
This guide from the Oklahoma State Department of Health has information on how to implement tobacco free school policies.
National Families in Action (NFIA)
http://www.nationalfamilies.org/
This site provides resources for parents regarding federal and state initiatives and the harmful effects of tobacco and other drug use.
Kick Butts Day
http://kickbuttsday.org/
Kick Butts Day is the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids' annual celebration of youth advocacy, leadership and activism. This website contains a planning guide and media pieces.
