Center for Safe Communities & Schools
Tobacco
These are the tobacco-based services and events provided or supported by The Center for Safe Communities & Schools. Please click on the link to more information about our services.
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The Community & Youth Initiatives tobacco program provides through training and technical assistance, we strive to increase the capacity of Texas communities and schools to effectively create positive change at the local level in reducing the burden of tobacco use and secondhand smoke.
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Texas Teen Tobacco Summit &
Comprehensive Tobacco Prevention Conference
Hosted by the Center for Safe Communities and Schools and the Texas Department of State Health Services, will be a premier assembly of tobacco-control professionals, researchers, healthcare providers, community outreach specialists, law enforcement officers, counselors, teachers and youth dedicated to protecting Texas youth from the dangers of tobacco use and helping those who smoke to quit.
Texas Teen Tobacco Summit & Comprehensive Tobacco Prevention Conference
Texas Tobacco-Free Teen Leadership Summits
CSCS conducts Texas Tobacco-Free Teen Leadership Summits to train and equip community and school-based organizations to invest in youth, where young people and adult allies come together to create positive social change.
Summits are based on an overarching youth development philosophy, where the following standards are met. Youth will have the opportunity to experience the assurance of:
Summits provide training to young people to create change focused on improving health and well-being, while also gaining experience and skills to become leaders in their communities. Summit participants receive environmental prevention training to guide youth and adult partners in addressing the local community conditions – social, physical, economic, as well as cultural – that contribute to youth tobacco use.
Texas Tobacco-Free Teen Leadership Summits
Teen Ambassadors
The goal of the Teen Ambassador Initiative is to build a statewide network of well trained, educated, and committed youth advocates in an effort to ensure a prominent youth voice in systems and policies that effect them; especially regarding tobacco and secondhand smoke.
Synar
Since 1998, CSCS has been contractually responsible for implementation of the annual statewide Synar Survey. This federally mandated scientific survey requires the recruitment, training, and supervision of local law enforcement agencies or independent law enforcement contractors in selected counties around the state.
Page address: http://www.cscs.txstate.edu/cscs/cscs-tobacco.htm
