American Indian Education Center Tobacco-Use Prevention Education Program

Overview

The American Indian/Alaska Native youth are more likely to use e-cigarettes and almost twice as likely to be frequent users of e-cigarettes than high school students overall; 47.3% of American Indian/Alaska Native high school students reported past 30-day use of “electronic vapor products” including e-cigarettes compared to 32.7% of high school students overall. The purpose of this grant award process is to enable American Indian Education Centers (AIEC), funded by the California Department of Education (CDE) under California Education Code (EC) sections 33380-84, to implement supplemental prevention education, intervention, and cessation programs, and youth development programs directed at the reduction of commercial tobacco use among youths. The proposed programs must: Implement...