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3. Describe lead applicant's experience with tobacco use prevention policy and programmatic activities. Include information on the capacity of your organization to administer the proposed program. Orange County has been involved in tobacco policy since 1988 when the county commissioners approved a policy limiting smoking in county buildings. The OCHD advocated for and the Board of Health passed the Smoking Control Rules in 1993 restricting ETS in public places, work sites and restaurants. in 1997 the Board of Health created a smoke -free committee, made up of OCHD and community representatives who worked to develop a county anti- smoking plan. This plan included encouraging restaurants to go 100% smoke -free and the group developed, published, and distributed a smoks4ree dining guide that included more than 75 restaurants. In November 2000 the Healthy Carolinians Preventive Services committee organized activities for the Great American Smoke Out and is again doing so for November 2002. The OCHD has also offered smoking cessation groups by request for many years and has a public health educator who is a trained American Lung Association cessation gawp facilitator. OCHD is a govemment organization with the capacity to oversee a project such as this one with ease. The Health Promotion and Education Division has strong leadership under Donna King, MPH and it is within this division that the coordinator of this tobacco prevention program will be placed. 4. Provide brief overviews of all partners (co- applicants) and their proposed roles and responsibilities. OCS has 6,448 students In grades pre-K through 12, including seven -elementary, two middle and two high schools. The CHCCS has 10,350 students in grades pre-k through 12. There are 8 elementary, 4 middle and 2 high schools. A new elementary school is scheduled to open in 2003. Both school systems are committed to collaborating with the OCHD, Healthy Carolinians of Orange County, and the Orange County APP to prevent tobacco use in teens and eliminate youthful exposure to ETS. Both school systems are willing to provide all partners with access to YRBS and other data, classrooms, student and staff training, and curriculum. The School Health Coordinators from each school system will ad as the liaison for the tobacco prevention coordinator from the health department They wilt help to facilitate entry into the schools and connect the coordinator with the appropriate teachers, classes and students to implement the project The Health Department will employ the tobacco prevention coordinator, provide administrative and supervisory support to the coordinator, and provide office space and fiscal management to the project overall The APP is in the Orange County DSS and has 3 FT staff, with a social worker in each school system. They serve 25-30 young mothers annually. 5. Provide information about the various assets of the partnerships that apply to the proposed program. Both CHCCS and OCS'are committed to preventing tobacco use in teens and to eliminating youthful exposure to ETS,as wail as providing students with the best prevention education possible. Both systems administered the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2D01 with United Way funding and will continue to survey students on an annual basis. CHCCS did the YRBS in 8th and 10th grade health classes, and OCS in Sth and 9th grade health classes. CHCCS have been 100% tobacco -free since 1990 and can provide guidance to the OCS as they undertake this inYdative. The OCHD has a history of conducting community education programs and can bring leadership and expertise to the project In addition, the network that exists within the focal Healthy Carolinians partnership will help to expand the reach and depth of the project. Page 6