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D. Program Management. 13 1. Describe the roles and responsibilities of program staff in the proposed project. Include titles, qualifications and experiences as well as the percentage of time each will devote to the program and the portions of their salaries that will be paid from the grant award. We are proposing to create a new position within the health promotion and education division of the Orange County Health Department This position will be fully funded by the grant. The position will be for a full -time senior public health educator. The title of the position will be Orange County Youth Tobacco Prevention Project Coordinator. It will be the responsibility of this individual to: 1. Plan, implement and evaluate all components of the youth tobacco prevention project 2. Work closely with the school health coordinators from both school systems to provide an effective program in schools within the two districts. 3. Recruit, train and provide leadership and facilitation to the peer educators. 4. Work with the Adolescent Parenting Program staff to plan and implement the teen mothers component of the project S. Work with OCS to help provide support and facilitation to the tobacco -free schools policy adoption. Approximately 20 hours a month will be donated in -kind by the school health coordinators to assist in coordination and Implementation of the program. An additional 20 hams per month will be donated by supervisory staff of the Health Promotion and Education Division and fiscal management staff of the OCHD. 2. Describe collaborations with community organizations and their roles in supporting the program including the extent of the collaboration with the local education agency (if it not the lead applicant or a partner). Outline how the proposed program will complement or build upon existing programs and services that address teen tobacco use. This project will have an OCHD Health Educator working closely with both school systems in Orange County. OCHD and the two school systems are integral collaborators in this project In addition, the coordinator will be working in partnership with the staff from the Adolescent Parenting Program,who will help to plan and impiemerd the teen mother component of the project by providing meeting times and places to conduct the project and access to the teen mothers. The Street Scene Teen Center and the Phoenix Academy alternative school in Chapel Hill will provide access to teens at their locations and help to conduct the needs assesment and offer time and space for prevention and cessation programs to be held. After- school programs and Volunteers for Youth will provide opportunities for education to be conducted with their participants by the peer educators in years 2 and 3. We will work with the UNC Carolina Cancer Focus students to help support and facilitate their Tutoring Against Tobacco project The Ward funds will help support their work and they in turn will help to train the peer educators in media literacy as relates to tobacco advertising. They will continue to offer education to 6th graders through the CHCCS after - school programs. Page 11