Control Programs, which documents the tobacco control program components recommended for states to obtain optimal results in promoting tobacco-free communities. The Children’s Health Initiative supports all of the recommended program components and addresses the following priorities:

Community Youth Programs
School Programs
Cessation Programs for Youth
Counter Marketing

The target group for this program is 8-18 year-old youth. This enables organizations to design programs that are preventative in nature or geared toward actual cessation. This year, we are also adding the opportunity to create, produce and initiate a counter marketing campaign.

Every proposed program must include a media literacy component with clear, measurable, and worthwhile outcomes for educating youth and monitoring their progress in understanding the manipulative tactics employed by the media.

One of the tools available supports training and professional assistance to educators: a locally-created cross-curricular tobacco media literacy education textbook, Smoke Screens. Copies of the textbook are available free of charge for distribution and infusion in Dutchess County schools, alternative schools, after school and/or community- based settings.


Funded Programs
The following programs were funded for the Youth Tobacco Use Prevention Initiative for 2008:

CAPE, Tobacco Free Youth Initiative Program

Children’s Media Project, Tackling Tobacco

Martin Luther King Cultural Center, The Theater Project -
Tobacco

Mill Street Loft, Keeping MY SPACE Tobacco Free

St. Francis Hospital Health Care Foundation, Preventing
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Through Primary Education Program


For more information on these programs, see the Tobacco Use Prevention Program Profiles. And for more on related organizations, visit our Resources page.

RFP - Tobacco Use Prevention
The Dutchess County Children’s Services Council will announce the 2009 funding of programs that address tobacco-use in youth age 8 to 18 in November. Please check back at that time.

Downloadable Materials
For more information about Tobacco Use Prevention, you can download this guide, which describes program components, best practices and more. (Note: This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader and may take time to download.)

Tobacco Use Prevention Program Guide