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Tobacco Education
 Action Plan Participant:  Partners for Clean Air, Seven Hills Behavioral Health

Youth are offered education sessions on the dangers of tobacco use by staff from Partners for Clean Air, a program of the Center for Human Services. The sessions offer information about the risks of smoking and methods of quitting. Youth who are over 18 are invited to participate in the new Department of Public Health-funded 1-800-TRY-TO-STOP program which offers telephone counseling to adult residents of Fall River.

 
Priority Area: 

Health Education

  
Priority Sub-Area:   

3, B)    Tobacco education

Goal:

To provide education on the dangers of tobacco use to Fall River youth.

Method(s):

Sessions are offered in any setting where youth are present.
Timeline:          

Continuous
Indicators:        Decreased number of youth smokers
Progress:  

How citizens can  get involved:

Encourage youth to attend scheduled programs     
Contact Information:

Call Sue Dickens or Judith Coykendall, 508-996-3147, Ext. 203.