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Details Coming Soon on Mini Grant Opportunities for Kansas Youth Groups Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition is one of only 11 agencies in 18 states to be awarded a ‘truth® or Consequences’ grant from the American Legacy Foundation®, a national public health foundation devoted to tobacco use prevention and cessation. Schedules for youth tobacco prevention training and youth grant opportunities will be developed soon. TFKC will receive $95,000 this year to connect new TASK youth groups with tobacco prevention campaigns to enhance a new wave of media ads launched this year in conjunction with the American Legacy Foundation’s national truth youth smoking prevention campaign and a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The media campaign, called the “Sunny Side of truth®,” focuses on exposing the truth about tobacco industry’s marketing tactics, and encourages teens to make their own informed changes about tobacco use. See http://www.thetruth.com/videos/ to see the truth® ads currently running in Kansas and other media markets. TASK is Kansas’ youth-led movement that promotes tobacco free teens and unites communities to create one strong voice speaking out against the tobacco industry. This grant opportunity expands youth-led efforts in Kansas to increase the numbers of Kansas youth committed to revealing the truth about the tobacco companies’ manufacturing and marketing practices. Youth recruitment efforts will focus on three areas in Kansas, for a total of 27 counties. These including Crawford, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Allen and Bourbon in the southeast; Finney, Lane, Ness, Hodgeman, Meade, Gray, Haskell, Grant, Kearny, Wichita and Scott in the southwest; and Cloud, Republic, Washington, Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa, Lincoln, Mitchell and Jewell in north central Kansas. A major thrust of the effort will be to recruit new youth groups, including youth involved in Upward Bound and Talent Search programs associated with colleges in these areas. Grant activities will involve tobacco prevention trainings, one in each region, mini-grants of up to $1,200 for youth groups, and new TASK youth groups helping to keep their peers tobacco free through a variety of activities, including the development of radio and print ads focusing on the deadly impact of smoking and the marketing tactics aimed at addicting young people to tobacco. View the map for the targeted areas and for contact information for the regional consultants who will be providing technical assistance for the program.
Smokeless Does Not Mean Harmless – TASK Mini-Grants Thanks to a grant from the Sunflower Foundation, Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Tobacco Use Prevention Program (TUPP) have developed a Smokeless Does NOT Mean Harmless program for TASK projects in Kansas. Twenty-two mini-grants have been provided to youth organizations or TASK companies to enlist youth from across Kansas to fight against this addiction and its health risks. Additional grant funding was provided through TUPP. National Spit Tobacco Education Program. . . .with a focus on spit tobacco. . . .
Grantees Funded by Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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