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• Each grant year, the Youth Tobacco Prevention Project Manager will follow up and offer education, counseling, and support for 75% of all student suspensions due to tobacco violations. • The Youth Tobacco Prevention Project Manager will insure the availability of regularly offered cessation services -- providing at least 7 community -based smoking cessation series to County teens and their families, reaching at least 60 individuals. Unique features of this project include the training and use of peer educators within the school system and a focus on involving teens that are parents already with their support network. Using peers to conduct education at younger levels is also a unique aspect of this project. Peer educators have been shown to be successful in other school -based and community projects (such as our Latino Child Health Promoters project). The Tobacco Control Branch of the Division of Public Health will be assisting all of the grant projects in developing specific evaluation plans to measure accomplishments. The project proposes the creation of a new grant- funded full time Senior Public Health Educator position to implement the project activities, including the grant evaluation and reporting requirements. The Senior Public Health Educator will be the Project Manager and work with both school systems to develop and implement the activities as outlined in the grant. Evidence -based curriculum will be used for activities in both school systems. The project's funding duration is three calendar years, beginning upon acceptance of the grant, with each year's funding being renewable upon successful completion of project activities. If the outcomes of the project are successfully met, the granting agency expects that the project Will continue to be funded by Orange County. It is proposed that the Board of Commissioners will review the grant outcomes each year. At the end of the three -year grant period, the Commissioners will receive a complete project outcome report and will consider sustaining the effort through the County general fund if the outcomes merit such support. The effective date of the grant is upon signature of the grant agreement and will run for one year with renewal each year upon review of project accomplishments. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The total amount of the grant over the three -year period is $232,848. The year one allocation is $81,351. The year one allocation will cover the salary and benefits of the Senior Public Health Educator /Project Manager and includes operational expenses for the project. In addition, the grant includes funds for a computer, furniture, and other one -time start- up costs. In -kind contributions by the County include office space, supervisory time, some office supplies and photocopying. Year two is $75,506 and year three is $75,991. Salary & Benefits Start -up Costs Operating Costs Offsetting Revenue Net County Costs Yr. 1: $45,382 $5,000 $30,969 $81,351 $0 Yr. 2: $47,272 $28,234 $75,506 $0 Yr. 3: $49,257 $26,734 $75,991 $0 Yr. 4: $51,720 1 1$26,000 $0 1$77,720