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Mark your calendar: Workshop for developing and enforcing 100% tobacco-free school policies
A workshop will be held in Goldsboro, NC December 2-3, 2004 to help learn how to develop and successfully enforce 100% tobacco-free school policies in your school district. Space is limited, register early!

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Making the case for
100% Tobacco-Free Schools

A workshop for achieving a healthier learning environment for NC students

You are invited to join school and community leaders for a dynamic two-day workshop to learn how to develop and successfully enforce a 100% tobacco-free school policy in your school district – one that prohibits all tobacco use, everywhere on campus, at all times. The emphasis of the workshop will be on learning strategies for encouraging school and community decision-makers to support this issue in their school districts, and for developing skills to successfully enforce an existing policy. The workshop is appropriate for school administrators, local health department staff, public health professionals, school nurses, advocates, and others interested in creating a healthier learning environment for NC students.

Workshop Highlights

Making a Case for Tobacco-Free Schools - Understand the research supporting the policy, the values and benefits to schools and students, and how to address challenges to the policy.
Lessons from the Field - A panel of school administrators from 100% tobacco-free school districts share their experiences and answer questions.
Leadership Forum - 2-hour breakfast and panel discussion for policy decision-makers.
Enforcement Workshop - Strategies for successful policy enforcement.
The Role of Youth - Dinner and presentation by youth involved in the tobacco-free schools movement.
Clinic Sessions - TATU Facilitator Certification Workshop¹; ATS Programs; Cessation; Spit Tobacco.

Regional Workshop in Goldsboro, NC
December 2-3, 2004
Holiday Inn Express (directions)
Registration Deadline: November 29, 2004

Workshop Agenda

December 2: Setting the Stage for Policy Implementation
9:30 – 10:00	Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30	Welcome and Introductions
10:30 – 1 0:45	Review of Agenda & Learning Objectives
10:45 – 11:30	Setting the Stage Goals for 2010 reducing teen tobacco use; trends in teen tobacco use; how tobacco-free schools is a part of comprehensive best practices; CDC’s Guidelines for School Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use; state-level support for 100% tobacco free schools; review of NC’s tobacco-free school districts.
11:30 – 12:30	Spit Tobacco: Not a Safe Alternative to Smoking An overview of the problem of spit tobacco use and resources available to youth, school, and health professionals for prevention and early intervention.
12:30 – 1:00	Components of a Comprehensive Tobacco-Free School Program Programs and services in support of a 100% tobacco-free school policy.
1:00 – 1:45	Lunch and Overview of the Health and Wellness Trust Fund’s Statewide Campaign to Support Tobacco Free Schools. Review resources available to teams working towards or enforcing a tobacco free school district.
1:45 – 2:45	Media Advocacy This session will provide an overview of media advocacy and will provide examples of TFS media advocacy activities from around the state. Strategies that school and community groups can use to advocate for 100% TFS will be presented. Information will also be provided on evaluating media coverage of local TFS issues.
2:45 – 4:45	Lessons From the Field Experts from 100% tobacco free school districts will provide an overview on how this policy was advanced in their school district; discuss challenges and obstacles they faced – and how these were overcome; and report on the impact this policy has had on their school district.
4:45 – 5:00	Wrap Up & Directions for Evening Activity
5:00	Adjourn
6:00 – 7:30	Dinner and ?Y Youth Presentation Following dinner, ?Y youth will present on the key role that youth have in implementing and enforcing a 100% tobacco-free school policy
7:30	Closure and Adjourn for the Day

December 3: Policy Enforcement & Program Support
8:30 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 11:00	100% Tobacco Free Schools Leadership Forum A panel of North Carolina superintendents and state level policy advisors from the Department of Public Instruction and the Department of Public Health will provide a strong rationale for 100% tobacco free schools. They will also share their experiences implementing and enforcing the policy and discuss how this policy has benefited students, school staff, and their school district.
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 12:00	Enforcing a Tobacco Free School Policy This session will provide strategies used by other school districts across NC to successfully enforce a 100% tobacco free school policy. Common challenges to enforcement will be reviewed. Information on the Tobacco Free Schools Signs Project will also be presented.
12:00 – 12:30	“It will never happen here!” Making the Case for Tobacco Free Schools This session will address some of the most common objections that teams will face advancing and enforcing the policy and how these can be overcome.
12:30 – 1:00	Lunch and Resource Sharing Review resources available to teams working towards or enforcing a tobacco free school district. Also review of clinic sessions.
1:00 – 1:45	Where do we start?
1:45 – 3:00	Clinic Sessions: Planning for Youth & Adult Cessation Strategies for successful ATS Programs Teams Against Tobacco Use (TATU) Facilitator Certification
3:00 – 3:15	Wrap Up and Adjourn

Registration Process

Space is limited; early registration is suggested. Participants from school districts that have not achieved a 100% tobacco-free school policy, as well as those who want to learn more about successful enforcement of existing policies, are invited to attend. We strongly encourage teams representing individual school districts to attend. Download the registration form and either print it and mail or fax it back to us, or fill it out on your computer and send it to us as an email attachment.

All registration forms and questions about registration or lodging should be directed to:
NC Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch
Attention: Sara Tardy
1932 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1932
Phone: 919-715-4268
Fax: 919-715-4410
Sara.Tardy@ncmail.net

For questions regarding the conference, please contact:
Mark Ezzell
Tobacco-free Schools Director
Phone: 919-715-4409
Fax:
Mark.Ezzell@ncmail.net.

For directions to the conference, click here.

Conference Cost

A registration fee of $35 per person will cover lodging, food and registration materials². It will be an additional $15 to participate in the TATU Facilitator Certification Clinic. Scholarships are available. There is no cost to attend the Leadership Forum.

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¹This will be an additional $15.
²Participants will have to cover all travel costs and any meals not provided at the workshop.

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