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11 C. Program goals, objectives, strategies for achievement, and evaluation measures. 1. Include a description of the proposed program plan that covers the years for which funding is requested. The program plan must include specific goals, objectives anf intervention strategies for year one. Anticipated goals and objectives for years 2 and 3 can be briefly summarized. State how these goals meet the Commission's funding priorities. The CHCCS program will implement programs and strategies for high -risk students, 8th and 9th graders and high school students. The OCS program will implement programs and strategies for high -dsk students, 3rd graders and high school students. Specific goals include: 1. To help students develop the skills necessary to prevent tobacco and manjuana use 2. To reduce tobacco and marivana use among middle and high school students 3. To reduce the number of tobacco use related suspensions 4. To reduce exposure to tobacco use and ETS in the homes of teen mothers, in the school environment, and In the community 5. To assure that both school systems will be 100% tobacco -tree Objective 1: Increase the proportion of middle and high school students who have never used manjuana or tobacco products. Strategies: 1.1 Train high school students using the Teens Against Tobacco Use peer -based education program about the dangers of tobacco and marijuana use and how advertising targets youth. Have these students provide presentations about making healthy lifestyle choices, including being tobacco and drug free, to younger students, third graders OCS, 8th graders CHCCS. 1.2 Develop and implement a brief unit on the negative effects of tobacco on personal fitness to be implemented in 9th grade physical education classes in CHCCS using the CDC Sports Initiatives materials. 1.3 Assess tobacco use in students who attend Phoenix Academy the CHCCS alternative school and who frequent the "Street Scene" teen center in Chapel Hill and develop prevention strategies specifically for these populations. Objective 2. Decrease the number of middle and high school students who use tobacco and marijuana. Strategies: 2.1 Assess tobacco and marijuana use in 8th and 9th graders OCS and 8th and 10th graders CHCCS using the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. 2.2 Implement the American Lung Association's Alternative To Suspension Program for student tobacco policy violators. 2.3 Promote and provide access to effective cessation and treatment options to students who attend OCS and CHCCS high schools, Phoenix Academy and the Street Scene Teen Center. 2.4 Train peer cessation helpers to ad as quit buddies to students who want to quit. 2.5 Train students who have participated in above sessions to ad as cessation counselors in year two and three. Objective 3: Decrease the exposure to ETS in the homes of pregnant and parenting students Strategies 3.1 Provide education to OCS and CHCCS pregnant and parenting teens about the health hazards of second hand smoke at the Orange County Adolescent Parenting Program's monthly peer education meetings. 32 Provide education to OCS and CHCCS pregnant and parenting teens on how to communicate with family members about secondhand smoke, including effective ways to help them stop smoking using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Smoke -Free Home Pledge kits. Objective 4: Help OCS become a 100% Tobacco Free school district Strategies: 4.1 Form a broad -based committee to develop effective steps for implementing a 100% tobacco free school district. 4.2 Provide smoking cessation and support programs to faculty in the OCS. In years two and three we will continue with the prevention and cessation programs and begin to work further in the community through after-school programs, summer camps and other avenues to reach additional youth with the peer educators and their prevention and cessation messages. Media literacy training will occur in subsequent years. Page 9