(TUPE) 2017-2018 Peer Educator Handbook
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Alameda County Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) 2017-2018 Peer Educator Handbook Training Tobacco/E-Cig/VAPING Peer Educators Goals for today’s training: 1. We want you to leave today with some new information on tobacco and e-cigarettes/vaping. 2. We want to demonstrate some activities that you can use or adapt when conducting tobacco/e-cig peer education. 3. We want to show that learning about tobacco can be fun! When you walk into the classroom, you should always have a few goals: 1. To teach some new information on tobacco/e-cigarettes! 2. For those non tobacco users, we would like to keep them tobacco free. 3. For those current tobacco users, we’d like to encourage them to consider cutting back or even quitting. (leave resources/contacts) 4. Have fun! 5. Collect evaluations. *We give thanks to Contra Costa Office of Education for their help on this manual.* 2017-18 Monthly Themes* More fact facts, resources, and suggested activities available soon at the ACOE TUPE web site. SEPTEMBER Stop Calling it Vapor! E-cigarettes, also referred to as vapes, vape pens, e-hookahs, and Tinyurl.com/ mods, heat e-liquid that generally contains nicotine, flavorings, septemberkahoot additives, and propylene glycol. The e-liquid becomes an aerosol, not just water vapor! OCTOBER Tobacco is a drug too! Nicotine is a highly addictive neurotoxin and exposure to nicotine, Tinyurl.com/ Red Ribbon Week either in cigarettes or e-cigarettes, can harm brain development. octoberkahoot 10/23-10/31 NOVEMBER Break the Cycle! Did you know? Most smokers try many times before quitting for Tinyurl.com/ Great American good. Every day, week, or month without smoking is a success, not a novemberkahoot Smokeout 11/17 failure. The more people try, the more they learn about how to quit and the closer they get to their goal. DECEMBER The True Cost of Most adult smokers started as children. In the U.S., 90 percent of all Tinyurl.com/ Tobacco adult smokers started while in their teens or earlier. Every day, decemberkahoot another 700 children become regular smokers. One-third of them will die prematurely from a smoking-caused disease. JANUARY Make a Healthy Keep your lungs healthy by taking good care of yourself every day. Tinyurl.com/ Resolution! Don’t smoke, avoid exposure to pollutants, prevent infection, get januarykahoot Happy New Year! 1/1 regular health care, and exercise. FEBRUARY Black History Month Big Tobacco has been targeting African Americans for decades: Tinyurl.com/ Through With Chew offering free samples of cigarettes in the inner-city, placing more bhmtupekahoot Week 2/19-2/23 ads in black neighborhoods than in others, and using culturally Valentine’s Day 2/14 targeted ads for menthol flavored products. MARCH Kick Butts! Tobacco’s terrible toll is no accident. It’s a direct result of the Tinyurl.com/ #NotaReplacement tobacco industry’s actions, including marketing that targets children marchkahoot Kick Butts! Day 3/21 and deceives people about the harmful effects of their products. APRIL Tobacco Hurts the Cigarette butts are NOT biodegradable and cigarette butts leach Tinyurl.com/ Earth! toxic chemicals into the environment including lead, arsenic, and aprilkahoot Earth Day, Apr. 22 nicotine – the same toxic chemicals found in secondhand smoke. MAY International Impact Tobacco use is the world’s leading cause of preventable death. Tinyurl.com/ of Tobacco Increasingly, the burden of tobacco use is greatest in low- and maykahoot World No Tobacco middle-income countries that have been targeted by the tobacco industry with its deadly products and deceptive marketing Day 5/31 practices. JUNE Reflection/Celebration Share your success story! For example, “This year, our # Peer #FinishIt Educators reached ### of their peers through classroom presentations and school-wide events!” Table of Contents The Basics ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Tip Sheet: Preparation for Classroom Presentaions .......................................................................... 2 Basic Structure of a Presentation .......................................................................................................... 3 Peer Educator Classroom Presentation Template ............................................................................ 4 Activities and Sample Classroom Agendas ...................................................................................... 5 Tip Sheet: Preparing for School-wide Events ..................................................................................... 6 Kahoot! Game Instructions ................................................................................................................... 7 Peer to Peer ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Vapor vs. Aerosol Demonstration ........................................................................................................ 9 Tar Jar...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Find Someone Who .............................................................................................................................. 11 Fine Someone Who Instructions .......................................................................................................... 12 Find Someone Who Answers ............................................................................................................... 13 Facts Matching Activity ....................................................................................................................... 14 Tobaacco Facts Matching Activity Answer Key (Core Pack) ....................................................... 15 Facts Matching Activity Answer Key (E-Cigarette Expansion Pack) ............................................ 16 The Tiral - Who is Responsible .............................................................................................................. 17 Gasping for Air (Straws) Activity ......................................................................................................... 22 Short and Long Term Effects Activty .................................................................................................. 23 The Cost of Tobacco$$ ........................................................................................................................ 25 The Cost of Tobacco Answer Key ...................................................................................................... 26 The BB Activty ........................................................................................................................................ 27 School-wide Events .............................................................................................................................. 28 Breathe Easy Track Meet ..................................................................................................................... 29 Cups in a Fence .................................................................................................................................... 30 Not a Replacement.............................................................................................................................. 31 Fatal Figures ........................................................................................................................................... 32 Tombstones ............................................................................................................................................ 33 Pledge Campaign ................................................................................................................................ 34 #BeTheFirstPledge ................................................................................................................................. 35 Airing out Big Tobacco's "Dirty Laundry" ............................................................................................ 36 Facts, Statistics & Resources ................................................................................................................ 37 Deaths a Year Comparision ................................................................................................................ 38 Youth Tobacco Facts ........................................................................................................................... 39 E-Cig/Vaping Facts............................................................................................................................... 40 Marijuana Facts ..................................................................................................................................... 41 How to Help a Friend Quit Smoking ................................................................................................... 42 How to Help a Family Member ........................................................................................................... 43 Ending the Sale of Flavored Tobacco: Standing Up for Youth Health and Social Justice ........ 44 Health Effects of Electronic Cigaretes, Vapes, and Hookah ......................................................... 46 Tobacco Cessation/Quit Resources .................................................................................................