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Exploring Equity in Graduation: Students Who Smoke or Vape

A webinar discussing equity in graduation success, focusing on support for students who smoke or vape, presented by Chris Reykdal, the State Superintendent. Topics include public health, nicotine addiction, mental health, and school recommendations.

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Exploring Equity in Graduation: Students Who Smoke or Vape

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  1. OctoberGATE Equity WebinarStudents Who Smoke or Vape: A Red Flag for Supports Exploring topics related to equity in graduation success Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal, State Superintendent

  2. Who Are We?

  3. Vision: Values: All students prepared for post-secondary pathways, careers, and civic engagement. Mission: Transform K–12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equity-based policies and supports that empower educators, families, and communities.

  4. Office of System & School Improvement

  5. Today’s Topics A Public Health Issue What it Looks Like in Washington What it Looks Like in the Field

  6. Why? Because we care

  7. Background

  8. Media Culture Teen Vaping & Smoking • Peers • Don’t perceive it as harmful • Coping • Lack of Supports • ACES + MH + Negative Stressors

  9. Questions & Polling When you think of students vaping/smoking/nicotine are you more inclined to think of it as an issue related to: • Discipline • Health • Addiction

  10. Tobacco Use and Behavioral Health • 70% of substance abuse treatment clients are tobacco users, making nicotine dependence the most common substance use disorder • Recent study showed recovering alcoholics who smoke are twice as likely to relapse within three years, than those who do not smoke (Goodwin, 2015) • Smokers pay the price: • Tobacco related illness is the leading cause of death for those in Recovery

  11. More on Tobacco Use and Behavioral Health 2 • People with serious mental illness have a 25 year shorter life span than the general population • 40-70% of adults with mental health disorder use tobacco, compared to 17% of the general population • This population has: • 2x Cardiovascular disease • 3x Respiratory disease • 3x Cancers

  12. Cigarette Death Epidemic in Perspective *Center for Disease Control

  13. Current Smokers by Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorder History *Lasser, et al, JAMA, 2008

  14. Tobacco Integration: ESD Student Assistance Program

  15. We’ve come a long way… Tobacco use rates as of 2016

  16. Why do we need to address youth tobacco use? 13% use e-cigarettes Among 10thgraders in Washington State* 6% are tobacco users 3% use smokeless tobacco *2016 Healthy Youth Survey Results

  17. Why do we need to address youth tobacco use? 1

  18. Why do we need to address youth tobacco use?2

  19. Nicotine EffectsReceptor Activation

  20. Nicotine Neurochemistry

  21. Nicotine EffectsWithdrawal Symptoms

  22. Big Ideas: Recommendations For Schools

  23. Resources

  24. Questions & Polling 1 Do you know the place all your students go to smoke and vape? • Yes • No Does your school have a screening process for drug and alcohol? • Yes • No • Don’t Know

  25. Who Am I? Where Am I From?

  26. Why did you start looking at smoking and vaping students?

  27. What did you do as a result?

  28. Process For Building A System • How did the work spread in your district? • How do you know the work will continue after you leave your building?

  29. What Advice Would You Give To People Starting This Work?

  30. Questions & Polling 2 • What is one major takeaway you have from today’s webinar? • Let’s learn together: Share your thought in the chat.

  31. Survey Tell us how we’re doing: http://bit.ly/GATEevaluation

  32. Next Month November 14, 2018 Community Partnerships: Early Warning Systems 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Community Partnerships: 201 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

  33. Creative Commons • Except where otherwise noted, this work by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License. • Many of our images come from Canva.com and TheNounProject.com.

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