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Tobacco Control > Tobacco Control for High Risk Youth and Young Adults

Program Description and Goals:
This three year project from 2005-2008 was aimed at reducing the tobacco-use prevalence rates among at-risk youth and young adults in Sacramento County.  Two major activities of the project were to provide no cost tobacco cessation services to workforce development and juvenile facilities and to ensure these services become institutionalized. Implementing tobacco-free policies in participating facilities was also a major goal.

Target Population:
The project focused its efforts on workforce development facilities in Sacramento County and juvenile centers that served youth and young adults ages (15-18 youth and 18-24 young adults). The goal was to reach at least 200 youth and young adults during the three year partnership between the Health Education Council (HEC) and participating facilities.

Participating Facilities:

The Sacramento Local Conservation Corps

The Sacramento Job Corps

Warren E. Thornton Youth Center

Sacramento Juvenile Hall

Program Results & Achievements:
This project was active from August 2005 to August 2008 but we continue to share, train, and provide resources to those interested in similar work.

Take a look at just a few successes:

• The Sacramento Job Corps became a tobacco-free campus in January 1, 2007.

• The Sacramento County Tobacco Control Coalition recognized the Sacramento Job Corps for its tobacco-free campus policy.
  
  
• The Health Education Council hosted a half-day workshop in August 2007 dedicated to training professionals who work with at-risk youth and young adults on how to integrate tobacco cessation and tobacco-free policies into their workplace.

• 162 Sacramento Job Corps students went through tobacco cessation services; 31 students at the Sacramento Local Conservation Corps; 20 at the Sacramento Juvenile Hall; and 8 at the Warren. E Thornton Youth Center, reaching a total of 221 youth and young adults.
  
  
• A total of 44 students from the Sacramento Job Corps were followed-up with after one-month of completing the tobacco cessation program. 19 reported they were free from tobacco-use.
  
  
• A tobacco cessation curriculum specifically for the at-risk youth and young adult audience was finalized in August 2007 for use in workforce development settings, juvenile centers and any other facilities that serve this population. The curriculum is titled, "Helping Young Adults Live Tobacco Free - A Cessation Curriculum".
  
  
• Multiple presentations on the project were shared at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in 2007; The BACCHUS Network's National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults; HEC's own National Tobacco Prevention Conference for Priority Populations; and several local presentations were given to provide expertise on this specific population regarding tobacco cessation and policy. 
  

Please click here to learn more about the tobacco cessation curriculum and how to order materials and trainings offered by HEC. Click here for a free downloadable copy of the newly released case study for a more in depth look of this project.

To learn more: Email Kristi Maryman at kmaryman@healthedcouncil.org