State Raze On, is just around the corner. So, mark your calendars for June 12-14 this year it will be held at the University of Charleston.  More details will follow as it comes available.

 Congratulations to all the Raze Scholarships Receipts:

          

      RESA 1: Norma Acord, Liberty High School

             Travis Helmondollar, Montcalm, High School

     

RESA 2:  Amy Jones, Williamson High School

 

RESA 3: Johnna Ferrell, Riverside High School

       Alexandra Johnson, Clay County High School

 

RESA 4: Samantha Mollohan, Webster County High School

 

RESA 5: Charity Drake, St. Mary’s High School

        Kristi Ramsey, Parkersburg High School

 

RESA 6: Carrie James, Oak Glen High School

        Kayla Poling, Valley High School

 

RESA 7:  Emily Hartzell. Bridgeport High School

         Amanda Scott, Buckhannon Upshur High School

 

RESA 8: Nicole Riggleman, Moorefield High

 

Media Winner: Claire Berlin, Moorefield High School

 

The Banquet will take place on April 1, 2005 at the University of Charleston. Congratulations to all the winners.

 

 

 

 

 

                          

 Recently students from the Tyler Consolidated High School, Target Ambassadors Fighting Tobacco (T.A.F.T) and Magnolia High School, Students Together Against Tobacco (S.T.A.T.), got together at Wal-Mart and passed out clean indoor air act pamphlets from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.  Both groups are part of the state anti-tobacco youth group RAZE which tries to tear down the lies that big tobacco tells us all.

 

 

 

 

American Lung Association ACTION ALERT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West Virginia Tobacco Educational Materials Clearinghouse:

 

The Tobacco Preventive Program Clearinghouse was formed in January 2001 with a grant between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, Office of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Division of Tobacco Prevention, and the West Virginia Library Commission.

 

Free educational materials are distributed through tobacco prevention specialists, and other health care personnel, and interested agencies and their staffs.

 

On request, the clearinghouse can make a faxable materials order form available with a complete listing of our available items, other info, etc. Also, a sample packet of info can be sent to you if you are really interested in what is available for your particular needs.  There are restrictions of the quantity of materials that can be ordered at one time.

 

Our new coordinator there at the Library Commission is Melody Kelly and her e-mail is:  kelley@wvlc.lib.wv.us. You can also call the Library at 800-642-9021 Ext. 8.

 

Incentives 

  

Mini-Grants

Need help getting started?  The T.A.T.U. program offers $100.00 mini-grants to program facilitators.  Just complete and submit a mini-grant form on-line or call us for more information.

 

TIPS Manuals

You can now order your TIPS Manuals on-line.  Simply complete the TIPS Manual Order Form and submit electronically.  We will process your request upon receipt.

 

Please visit us online at www.alawv.org and click on the T.A.T.U. logo to order your mini-grants and TIPS manuals.

 

Free Technical Assistance! Points of contacts are:

 

T.A.T.U. Program Manager Patty Hughes, American Lung Association of WV

Patty@alawv.org ; www.alawv.org, (304) 342-6600 or 1-800-LUNG-USA

 

 

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 x1    

 

           RESA V: Gus Nelson,

           (304) 485-6513 x 122

 

RESA VI: Caryn Puskarich,

 (304) 231-3816

 

RESA VII: Adrianne Marsh,

(304) 624-6554 x 238

 

RESA VIII: Donna Kuhn,

(304) 257-2641