Media campaigns on smoking and SIDS – 6/1/06

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1. Alabama - Yes, in one community and the department contracted through a grant with a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. We also contracted for Life Skills Training, Project Northland, Not OnTobacco, and Teens Against Tobacco Use. It has been my experience that fidelity to the program is better and more consistent if tobacco prevention programs are contracted out as to getting school administrators and teachers to incorporate a tobacco prevention program into their course of study.
   
   
2. Arizona - In Arizona, we have nine of our fifteen county program coordinators using TNT curriculum in their schools. We target middle school youth in medium/high risk schools. I would say about 3 of the counties provide it in a capacity building model with teachers or a subcontractor providing the intervention with the other six utilizing their own staff to go and provide direct services in the classroom.
   
   
3. California - 16 districts use the Project Toward No Tobacco (TNT) at the K-6 grade level; 18 districts use the Project TNT at the 7-8 grade level; 6 districts use the Project TNT at the 9-12 grade level; 27 districts total used the Project TNT, so obviously some districts used it at more than one grade level. The report does not indicate who conducts the TNT, and we haven't located any other data collection that captures that information.
   
   
4. Louisiana - DOH used to do TNT at summer trainings for teachers to implement in fall, haven't for several years (5 or so). However, the LA Campaign for Tobacco Free Living has TNT as one of the 3 curricula that their mini-grantees can use with grant funds. Questions about this can be directed to Ashley Ross, Executive Director, LA Campaign for Tobacco Free Living, (504) 301-9803, aross@lphi.org.
   
   
5. North Dakota - North Dakota has used TNT fairly extensively. In most schools we have the teachers carrying it out. We do have a few schools that have used special school coordinators to teach it - these coordinators are often funded with the MSA funds we provide to our local agencies.
   
   
6. Utah – In Utah we do not have a standard way of teaching Towards No Tobacco but a variety of students receive this curriculum from a few different sources. In the past most of our local health departments staff were heavily involved in providing this instruction. And some still do provide this to classrooms in their areas. Although several years ago when programs changed their focus to policy we also changed our recommendations on how to teach TNT. We now heavily encourage training teachers who then can teach their own students. Another avenue to teach these students is through the tobacco prevention specialist we currently fund in a limited number of our school districts. Although again one of their main roles is to help coordinate teacher training sessions so that teachers are able to provide that to their own students over time.
   
   
7. Washington – In Washington State we do have TNT as one of the curriculums that can be used in the comprehensive school based programs. It is typically conducted by a teacher or prevention interventionist that is school based. That being said, currently we don't have any school districts using it. If they have any questions they are welcome to contact me at carla.huyck@doh.wa.gov.
   
   
8. West Virginia - West Virginia does not utilize the TNT program, but does recommend that the Not-On-Tobacco program be utilized.