IMPACT
Tobacco Control
Mini-Grant Success Stories
College Students KICK BUTTS!
These exciting projects are all promoting policies to change community
norms around tobacco and exposure to secondhand smoke.
The Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
Team created the “Pure 02 4 U” project to advocate for a tobacco-free
policy for their West Hills College Campus in Coalinga. The students
themselves wrote the grant proposal, which won a mini-grant award for
their campus from the SJVHC IMPACT Program.
Educating their community on the
dangers of tobacco use and advocating with key campus administrators
took up a great deal of their volunteer time and effort. For Earth Day
on campus, the SIFE Team displayed “body bags” tagged with signs
indicating the cause of death from various tobacco-related diseases.
The SIFE Coordinator also recently announced that the team received
numerous awards because of this project, including President Bush’s
Service Award! The tobacco-free policy for West Hills, while still
pending, will be a great success story for this team and for their
college community.
For more information:
To learn more about the mini-grant program, to
request a
mini-grant application, or to volunteer for the Executive
Advisory Board, please contact IMPACT Program Manager, Susan Pearman, at
446-2323.
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