Text Box: N-O-T News   Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Brought to you by the WV Bureau for Public Health Division of Tobacco Prevention, the Governors Safe and Drug Free Communities Program and the West Virginia Department of Education   Text Box: Volume 3 Issue 1 January 2004     Text Box: Upcoming Trainings N-O-T Mar. 4 à Clarksburg T.A.T.U. Feb. 24 à Wheeling Freedom From Smoking Feb. 5&6 à Summersville Text Box:   A barrier that is commonly reported to us is scheduling sessions. Time schedules may need adjustment in schools as well as community settings, to ensure participation in all 10 sessions. The N-O-T curriculum can be adapted to a time frame that is less or more than one hour. Each session is packed with activities, and it will be up to the facilitator to determine what activities can be dropped or modified to meet the needs of the student group. Some activities, such as Journal Time, may be assigned as homework, to allow more time for interactive activities during the group meeting. Other activities are listed as optional, to allow for greater flexibility during sessions.   It is recommended that sessions be scheduled once a week, followed by booster sessions that begin no longer than two weeks after the last session. Students need time to process their learning and practice new skills. However, this time frame may not be possible in some settings.   Residential treatment centers, for example, Text Box:   usually have only six weeks with their young people. Those groups meet twice a week, with booster sessions occurring during aftercare.   The following suggestions, based on previous studies of N-O-T, may help you with scheduling your N-O-T groups.   à It’s best to schedule the sessions during the school day. This helps avoid transportation difficulties for the students.   à Facilitators that are teachers sometimes find it helpful to schedule the sessions during their planning period.   à To avoid having the student miss the same class every week some facilitators rotate the meeting period.   à Some facilitators are able to use student teachers to cover their classes while they hold a session.   Other suggestions can be found on page A-13 of your facilitator manual.   Text Box: Clinic Tip – Scheduling   Text Box: Incentives    Mini-Grants $50 mini-grants are available to get your groups started.  The mini-grant can be used to purchase pencils, stress balls and most importantly, food!  We have heard many times, “If you feed them, they will come!”  Applying for the mini-grant is easy.    Stipends Another positive incentive are the $250 Stipends which are available for facilitators after all evaluation materials have been returned to ALAWV.   Student Journals Program expenses are kept to a minimum since we provide all required hand outs for students in this “journal”. Blank pages are provided for the students to write in.   You can find all these resources and more at: www.alawv.org/N-O-T.htm  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Are you a N-O-T facilitator that is not currently supporting a group because you just don’t feel comfortable with your skill level? Do you need a little boost or a refresher to update your tobacco knowledge or facilitation skills?   We have developed short, one-half day update, or refresher, workshops in both our T.A.T.U. and N-O-T youth prevention and cessation programs. In these workshops we will give you updated facts, new activities and enough information to bring you up-to-date in current tobacco control programs and strategies in West Virginia. Both T.A.T.U. and N-O-T workshops will be offered on the same day; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. That way, people trained in both programs can attend a full day workshop and others just a one-half day workshop for the program they need.   The workshops will be scheduled as soon as we know where the demand is. Please contact us if you are interested. If you are not currently supporting a group, we do ask that you make a commitment to do so once you attend the workshop. If you are actively supporting a group, we welcome you to come to receive the most recent information on our programs. Your Regional Tobacco Prevention Specialists (RTPS) are also available to assist you in getting the programs into your schools and to help you on a local basis.   Text Box: Refresher Training    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Fighting Big Tobacco, Bad Air and the Asthma Epidemic  

 

 

Text Box: Since the release of the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health in the United States in 1964, about 10 million people have died from smoking-related diseases in the United States.   Thank you all for not standing by while our children become statistics!  

 

 

   

Text Box: Regional Tobacco Prevention Specialists   RESA I: Lori McGraw, (304) 256-4712 x331 RESA II: Sue Niestroy-Wilson, (304) 529-6205 RESA III: Cybele Boehm, (304) 766-7655 x114 RESA IV: Cheri Hall, (304) 872-6440 x19 RESA V: Gus Nelson, (304) 485-6513 x22 RESA VI: Caryn Puskarich, (304) 231-3816 RESA VII: Jan Nichols, (304) 624-6554 RESA VIII: Donna Kuhn, (304) 257-2641   Text Box: I would like to congratulate the following schools for currently providing the N-O-T program.   Tugs Valley High School: Mr. Ledger John Marshall High School:  Ms. Fisher Ripley Middle School:  Ms. Lott Jefferson High School:  Ms. Turner Hamlin High School:  Ms. Linville Grafton High School:  Ms. White Webster County High School:  Ms. Brackett Morgantown High School:  Ms. Berryman Fayetteville High School:  Ms. Hall / Mr. Kincaid Woodrow Wilson High School:  Ms. Monroe / Ms. Horton Raleigh County Alternative School: Ms. Bonds / Ms. Hutteman Raleigh County Alternative School:  Ms. Andrade / Ms. Dawson Eastbank Middle School:  Ms. Kirk / Ms. Hamilton Camaron High School:  Ms. Fisher Wheeling Park High School: Ms. Hershey / Mr. Boissy Cabell Midland High School: Ms. Carovillano Pendleton County High School: Ms. See   Text Box: Text Box:   GO TEAM!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Substitute Reimbursements

We currently do have funds available for substitute reimbursement of teachers who attend the training and become N-O-T facilitators.

 

Newsletter Updates

If you know of something happening with the N-O-T program that you feel other facilitators would benefit from, please call Tony (304)342-6600 or email tony@alawv.org. The newsletter will be published once a month.

 

If you are interested in our programs and would like more information, or would like to schedule a visit, call Sarah Cavendish at our office.   

 

Websites

American Lung Associationà www.alawv.org

Not On Tobacco (NOT) à www.alawv.org/N-O-T.htm

Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) à http://www.alawv.org/teens_against_tobacco_use.htm

E-Advocacy System à http://lungaction.org

RAZE à www.razewv.com

Tobacco News à www.tobacco.org