Youth mobilization projects give young people the opportunity to learn the most important lessons adults can give youth - that they are worthwhile, that they have gifts to give their schools and communities, that they have the power to make a difference in this world.

TIGHT (Tobacco Industry Gets Hammered by Teens)

• Youth Power - National Conference on Tobacco and Health 2002 Presentation (311k PDF, 31pp.)
• TIGHT in the Second Three Years, 1998-2001 (161k PDF, 19pp.)
• The Passage of a Local Tobacco Policy to Address Youth Access in Three Cities (234k PDF, 32pp.)
• Youth Driven Policy Change (62k PDF, 17pp.)
• The Role of Young People in Strategy Development and Implementation

Information resources

• Concepts in Action (362k PDF, 8pp.)
• Developing Youth and Community Through Tobacco Prevention - from the Center for Civic Partnerships
• Youth Development Approach
• "Young People Creating Community Change",
  1996 W.K. Kellogg Foundation 800 819-9997
• "STAT Youth Tobacco SQUADS Facilitator's Guide" Community Intervention 800-328-0417
• "Tobacco-Free Youth Coalitions" - "We Did It-You Can Too!" 11-minute video shares how three different Pennsylvania community coalitions are addressing tobacco control.

Sample activities for youth coalitions

• High School Students Planning to Kick Butt
• Youth Lead the Way in Fighting Back Against Big Tobacco
• Youth Protest Long's Cigar Promotion
• Youth to Help Merchants Comply with New Ordinance
• Contra Costa Youth Mobilizing to Fight Tobacco

Facts about youth and tobacco

• Information from Tobacco-Free Kids

Hear Their Voices:
How to empower & inspire youth

Video clip (3.2 MB, mpeg)
How to start a Tobacco Prevention Club in Your School or Community (83k PDF, 1p.)

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