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Monthly Health Themes :: NOVEMBER
Health Awareness Month | Asset Building Focus | Harvest of the Month

Health Awareness Month
Tobacco Free Awareness

This month’s Student Support Services Department campaign focuses on tobacco prevention education highlighted by the Great American Smoke Out, where students participate in school wide events like Adopt a Smoker to encourage and support individuals to quit smoking. Schools are encouraged to publicize the District’s Tobacco Free Policy and intervention protocols. High Schools are encouraged to promote tobacco cessation programs.

Resources:

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Additional Resources:

www.tobaccofreekids.org for statistics about tobacco, local and national tobacco education and advocacy projects and articles and updates about tobacco legislation.
www.thetruth.org for tobacco fact finder and tobacco education activities
California Smokers Helpline 1800-No-BUTTS and http://www.californiasmokershelpline.org for activities, education materials and resources.
Great American Smoke Out at cancer.org

Asset Building Focus
Social Competencies

• Planning and Decision Making
• Resistance Skills

Young person knows how to plan ahead and make choices while learning to resist negative peer pressure and dangerous situations. Schools can teach goal setting skills and refusal strategies.

Asset Building Activities

Planning and Decision Making - Assist youth with planning and decision making by working with students to develop a campaign to educate local store owners on ways to reduce tobacco subsidiary products from being sold at stores. Contact: Amy Benjamin at Youth Leadership Institute for activities, resources and youth presenters on these projects (415) 836-9160.
Planning and Decision Making - Students can plan and prepare presentations for their peers; work with students to be youth presenters on a topic of their choice at the Teens Tackle Tobacco Conferences at UC Berkeley.
Planning and Decision Making, Resistance Skills - Help students develop their resistance skills by working with them to organize a Smoke Free Pledge Drive. Have students educate their friends and family on the dangers of second hand smoke. Students can brainstorm ways to make a home safer (smoking outside, not smoking in the car, getting air filters etc.) and smoke free.

Harvest of the Month - November
Green Beans

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