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Tobacco prevention youth summit held in Salina, KS

TOPEKA, KAN – A youth tobacco prevention summit was held in Salina on the 14th of November at the Kansas Wesleyan University. The session began with youth leaders welcoming almost120 Kansas youth ages 11 to 18 to a celebration of youth efforts to reduce tobacco use by young people in Kansas.  The keynote presentation was provided by Chad Bullock, the 20-year old winner of the 2008 Teen Choice’s “Do Something” award. He focused on engaging youth in tobacco prevention efforts across the state of Kansas by showing what he had done and what other youth can do in their own communities to keep young people grow up tobacco free. View full press release.

Tobacco Use Prevention Mini-Grant Opportunities Available
Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition is currently taking applications for youth-led tobacco use prevention grants.  Mini Grants of up to $1,250 will be awarded on a competitive basis to youth group applicants with creative, youth-led media projects and other activities that focus on protecting themselves and their peers from experimenting with and becoming addicted to cigarettes and tobacco products. Youth group grantees will become new TASK Companies. Deadline for completed applications is: December 18, 2009. Click here for application. Click here for more information.

TASK website has a new face-lift
Have you noticed the recent face-lift of the TASK website? Thanks to your input, the new website is up and running. The new website is easy-to-navigate and makes getting involved in TASK’s tobacco-free campaign easy and interactive.

Get the facts on how deadly tobacco use is for you! Get involved with your local board – it’s only a point and click away! Come see the difference TASK can make in the fight against Big Tobacco. Check it out!

Smokeless Does Not Mean Harmless – Getting the Word Out
Mini grants were awarded to 15 youth groups across the state to fund their grassroots projects designed to increase knowledge and reduce usage of spit tobacco in Kansas through March 15, 2008. The groups came up with unique and innovative ways to reach out to youth in their communities and get the word out about the dangers of smokeless tobacco. Click here for project summaries.

Smokeless Does Not Mean Harmless:
The Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition (TFKC) and TASK, the statewide youth movement against tobacco, recently received a grant from the Sunflower Foundation for a "Smokeless Does Not Mean Harmless" project to increase youth knowledge and reduce usage of spit tobacco in Kansas.

This project involves collaboration between the Sunflower Foundation, the Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition, the Tobacco Use Prevention Program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and TASK.

Funding for this project was provided by the Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans, a Topeka-based philanthropic organization with the mission to serve as a catalyst for improving the health of Kansans.