After-School Conference

Calling All After-School Program Providers

This flyer is from Rescue Social Change Group (RSCG) regarding their upcoming conference on after-school programs. Some of you might remember Jeff Jordan of RSCG from our previous grantee conferences.

RSCG is the contractor used by VTSF for the street marketing elements of the Y? campaign. You can find out more at http://www.boostconference.org/

We at VTSF are in hopes of including some of this info at our grantee conference in September.

Thoughts? Feedback? Suggestions?

Email me!

Kick Butts Day - April 2nd!

Many of you have events and activities planned for Kick Butts Day on April 2nd but if not, it's not too late to plan. Check out http://www.kickbuttsday.org/ for tons of resources.

Kick Butts Day is an annual national celebration of youth tobacco-use prevention efforts and activities sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. This would be a great way to reward your program participants and get them involved as tobacco use prevention activists!

Virginia Tobacco Use Data

Updated Virginia tobacco use statistics have just been posted to the VTSF website thanks to the

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

Click on over to get the latest numbers:

www.vtsf.org/data/index.asp

Town Hall Meeting with Gov. Kaine

Governor Kaine is holding Town Hall Meetings next week in Roanoke, Norfolk, and Front Royal. The Virginians for a Healthy Future Coalition encourages smoke free air advocates to utilize this opportunity to tell legislators, the Governor and the media that you and your community want and support smoke free air. Supporters of the smoke free air laws and the banning of smoking in public places are encouraged to attend, to thank the Governor for his support of smoke free air legislation and to encourage legislators to support smoke free air legislation. All town hall meetings are open to the public and the media. This is a very effective way for individuals to convey to the media that smoke free legislation is important and supported.

No sign-in is required to attend or to ask questions or make comments.

Monday, March 17, 2008 - Roanoke
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Patrick Henry High School Auditorium
2102 Grandin Road Southwest
Roanoke, VA

FREE online substance abuse prevention course

Foundations of Prevention is an online course offered by the Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention that covers the basic core knowledge of substance abuse prevention,
providing information on prevention principles, approaches, strategies, as well as
guidance for planning effective programs and measuring results. The course consists of
eight instructional units. It may be taken for FREE or continuing education credits are
available through the University of Maryland College Park for $25.

To access this course:
Go to www.samhsa.gov
Click on Center for Substance Abuse Prevention [CSAP] (right column)
Click on Prevention Platform (left column)
Register as a user to utilize the tools
Click on Training at the top of the page
Click on featured Resources
Click on CSAP’s Foundations of Prevention On-Line Course
Follow the prompts to register to take this specific course