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Tobacco Free Youth Coalitions

Evaluation of smoke Free Youth Coalitions Reanna Messer Dr. Louis Brown University of Mississippi Biology, Biochemistry “CPRIT Summer Trainee 2012”. Tobacco Free Youth Coalitions. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.

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Tobacco Free Youth Coalitions

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  1. Evaluation of smoke Free Youth CoalitionsReanna MesserDr. Louis BrownUniversity of MississippiBiology, Biochemistry“CPRIT Summer Trainee 2012”

  2. Tobacco Free Youth Coalitions • Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death • 80% of adult smokers begin before age 18, target youth population

  3. Project Aims • Aim 1) Document coalition activities designed to enhance youth capacity and promote for tobacco control • Data collection through interviews and observation which facilitated survey development

  4. Project Aims • Aim 2) Assess coalition functioning strengths and weaknesses • Preliminary survey instrument and survey to measure coalition-specific constructs

  5. ProjectAims • Aim 3) Document the successes of the Smoke Free Youth Coalitions • Conduct focus groups to document coalition success and participation benefits • Aim 4) Identify factors that helped and hindered coalition success • Focus groups also helped uncover barriers that hindered strategies and coalition success

  6. Tasks Implement innovative strategies within coalition functioning Generate ideas to improve coalition functioning

  7. Frame Shift Frame Shift Analogy

  8. Implementing Innovative Strategies Have youth create a vision statement • Why: • Improve cohesion • Promote public speaking and leadership • Increase efficiency during activities and meetings • How: • Divide into subgroups • Provide different guiding questions to each group • Outline a draft statement • Have each group “fill in” one section of statement • Revise, display, and reiterate purpose

  9. Further Accomplishments

  10. First this, now that • Continue to pursue public health strategies • Continue to have phone conferences with both coalitions—add bylaws, contracts, and mission statements • Shift my area of focus from clinical medicine to…. Clinical medicine 

  11. Thank you for this opportunity • Dr. Louis Brown • CPRIT Program • SHOUT Youth Coalition • Katherine Arneson • HEARTS Youth Coalition • Penny Downs • Dee Swope

  12. Keep In Contact Reanna L. Messer rmesser@nmsu.edu 662-213-9115 4494 Jon Cunningham Blvd Apt 7101 El Paso, TX 79934

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