Promoting Tobacco-Free Schools

✅ Nice going! The award application will ask you to provide:

• Provide the tobacco and vaping prevention educational material or curriculum name(s) used with each grade this school year. (e.g., CATCH My Breath™, Stanford Medicine''s Vape-Free Curriculum, Vaping: Know the Truth, ASPIRE, county or state department of health materials).
• Describe how many lessons each grade received on tobacco and vaping prevention and whether the lessons provided were standalone or integrated into other instruction such as health education, physical education (PE), science, or English language arts (ELA).
• Upload at least one (1) tobacco and vaping prevention educational material or lesson plan taught this school year.

✅ Great job! The award application will ask you to:

• Select at least two (2) student engagement methods used to implement and improve the district tobacco-free policy this school year that were student-centered and developmentally appropriate.
• Describe how students led implementation of the district tobacco-free policy with a selected student engagement method.
• Describe how students improved the district tobacco-free policy with a selected student engagement method.

✅ Great job! The award application will ask you to:

• Describe your school team''s written referral pathway for informing caregivers of tobacco use or vaping incident, making a referral to student support services or a cessation program, and then followed up to ensure services were accessed.
• For elementary grades describe how qualified school staff used a written referral pathway when a student was identified as needing mental health support, informed caregivers, and followed up to ensure services were accessed.
• Upload at least one (1) completed referral form sent to a student and caregiver. For schools with a tobacco-free policy violation, the form needs to include a student referral to a school or community-based tobacco cessation program. For schools with no incidents of student tobacco use or vaping, the form needs to include a student referral to school or district support service or a community-based program.