​TUPE Site Coordinators

This site is designed as a one-stop resource for our TUPE Site Coordinators working to reduce youth tobacco use, as well as to empower the next generation of tobacco-free advocates. The site will constantly be expanding to ensure that the content and information is up to date and supportive to our TUPE Site Coordinators.

Curriculums

• Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit (Middle & High School students) is a new, theory-based and evidence-informed educational resource created by educators and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of cigarettes, cigars/cigarillos, chew hookah, and electronic cigarettes. This Toolkit contains a set of modules focused on e-cigarettes and vapes, messages on nicotine addiction, information and resources concerning positive youth development, and school policies that provide information about school tobacco policies and tobacco control efforts.

Pre Survey (Before Lessons) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TUPEPre2018-19


Post Survey (After Lessons) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TUPEPost2018-19


• Project TND (Alternative Education and High School) Project TND is an effective, interactive classroom-based substance abuse prevention program that is based on more than two decades of successful research at the University of Southern California. Project TND focuses on three factors that predict tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, violence-related behaviors, and other problem behaviors among youth, including:

• Motivation factors (i.e., students' attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and desires regarding drug use);

• Skills (effective communication, social self-control, and coping skills); and

• Decision-making (i.e., how to make decisions that lead to health-promoting behaviors).

School Tobacco Prevention Activities

The TUPE program focuses its anti-tobacco campaigns at school sites during the following awareness events:

• Red Ribbon Week is a national awareness campaign that works to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

  
  

• Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism where young people are encouraged to host events that work towards a tobacco-free society.

TUPE Site Coordinators work closely with Community Advocate Teens of Today (CATT) Youth from their school sites to put on campaigns and activities during both Red Ribbon Week and Kick Butts Day.