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u~7 Goal .3: All adult school-based personnel will be aware of local cessation services and resources such as quitlines and web-based services. Smoke-free adult personnel will strengthen the OCS and CHCCS district's 100% TFS policies by acting as smoke-free role models for students. Local Objective: By June 2009, all OCS and CHCSS school-based persomzel will have received materials promoting local, phone, and web-based cessation services. This will be measured by a mailing records kept by school health coordinators. Strategies: Cessation resources will be posted and available in teacher/staff break rooms as well as distributed though district mailings. Timeline: Resources will be provided to school health coordinators prior to the start of the 2005-2006 school year for posting prior to the start of classes. Resources and personnel mailings will be refreshed each semester, Focus Area .3: Eliminate youth exposure to secondhand smoke Goal: The program will increase parent awareness of the harmful effects of secondhand smoke on children, Local Objective 1: By .Tune 2009, all OCS and CHCCS elementary schools will have at minimum two "L,ove Our Lungs" signs posted at every parent/guardian drop-off/pick-up point on school property. This will be measured by an environmental inspection conducted by the program coordinator and confirmed by the school principal, Strategies: Signs will be purchased from the vendor used by Healthy Alamance and distributed to OCS and CHCCS elementary schools with a principal letter describing their proper display. Health coordinators will follow up with principals if barriers to their proper display are detected. Timeline: Signs will be distributed to schools by the end of the first semester of the 2005- 2006 school year and should be displayed by the first week of the second semester of that year.. Signs will be on display indefinitely. Local Objective 2: By June 2009, TRU peer educators will have conducted a total of 24 secondhand smoke awareness outreach activities at parent/guardian drop-off7pick-up points at all CHCCS and OCS elementary schools. This will be measured by the program coordinator's entries into the iPTS system. Strategies: 2-3 peer educators will conduct outreach during hours of drop-off or pick-up, Peer educators will hand static cling "Love Our Lungs" window stickers and. other awareness materials to parents/guardians dropping off /picking up their children. Timeline: Peer educators will start outreach during the second semester of the 2005-2006 school year, 4 elementary schools will be reached each semester during the grant period. Goal: The program will increase the number of smoke-free family restaurants in Orange County. Local Objective 1: By June 2009, 100% of restaurants applying for a permit in Orange Comrty will receive an informational packet from the Environmental Health Services Division (EHSD) of the OCHD communicating the advantages of opening smoke free.. This will be measured by EHSD records, Strategies: This strategy has recently been implemented as part of the current program and requires organizational institutionalization. The program coordinator will provide informational packets to the EHSD on a monthly basis. EHSD records will monitor the distribution of the packets to new restaurants, 11