TUPE Tiers of Support
TUPE offers a tiered systems of support to ensure students throughout Santa Clara County, receive the appropriate level of intervention needed to prevent substance-use. TUPE interventions are identified based on student risk behavioral data obtained through the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS).
TUPE Tier I
TUPE Tier I offers universal prevention strategies on campus that include:
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Certification and enforcement of tobacco-free campus
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Monitoring of youth risk behaviors and resilience data through the administration of the California Healthy Kids Survey biannually for grades 7th, 9th, and 11th (CHKS Survey)
TUPE Tier II
TUPE Tier II offers prevention and interventions strategies that include:
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Monitoring of youth risk behaviors and resilience data through the administration of the California Healthy Kids Survey biannually for grades 7th, 9th, and 11th and the California Student Tobacco Survey
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Providing intervention for those most at risk
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Empowering youth through tobacco-focused youth development
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Maintaining and enforcing tobacco-free policy