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Tobacco Control > Tobacco Control for High Risk Youth and Young Adults

Setting:

Sacramento Job Corps, Conservation Corps & The Warren E. Thornton Youth Center.

• Congratulations to the Sacramento Job Corps who has been a Tobacco-Free campus since January 1, 2007!
• The Sacramento County Tobacco Control Coalition has nominated the Sacramento Job Corps for their smoke-free campus policy!
• Hosted a Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Workshop on August 22, 2007, reaching over 20 Sacramento County professionals.
  

Quick Stats

• Over 3,000 youth and young adults begin smoking every day in the United States
• The tobacco industry heavily targets youth and young adult populations with advertisements that glamorize smoking and tobacco use
• Approximately 13.3% of California’s adult population uses tobacco
• The general young adult population is 19.4%.
• General Middle school population is 6.1% along with 15.4% for high school students.
  
• Approximately 70% of persons participating in the Sacramento Job Corps and Conservation Corps use tobacco, 47% of students at the Warren E. Thorton Center use tobacco.
• Tobacco use remains the number ONE preventable cause of death in the U.S.

Program Description

Goals of the Project

The goal of the project is to reduce tobacco use prevalence rates among at-risk Sacramento County youth and young adults. The intent of the project is to provide no cost cessation services to youth and young adults at the Sacramento Local Conservation Corps, Sacramento Job Corps and Sacramento County’s juvenile centers.

Facilities participiating in the project inlude:

The Sacramento Local Concervation Corps

The Sacramento Job Corps

Warren E. Thornton Youth Center

The Sacramento Local Conservation Corps and Job Corps provide programs in vocational and career development for young adults who never finished high school. The Warren E. Thornton Youth Center is a residential center that houses youth offenders to take advantage of many activities and services for a successful transition back into the home/workforce.  A second goal of the project is to ensure that cessation services become institutionalized at these facilities. The priority funding area for this project is for tobacco cessation activities that target youth and young adult offenders who are current tobacco users.

Target Population to Be Served

This project focuses efforts on juvenile offenders (15-18 years of age) and young adult offenders (18-24 years of age) participating in the Sacramento Local Conservation Corps Sacramento Job Corps and juvenile detention centers. We plan to reach at least 200 youth offenders who are current tobacco users, with cessation interventions.

Tobacco Cessation Curriculum

The Health Education Council has developed a unique tobacco cessation curriculum for use in the Job Corps and Conservation Corps and other juvenile centers.

• Unlike traditional cessation courses, this curriculum is approximately 3 week long.
• It is designed to be taught by lay facilitators (non-health experts)
• It is designed to be easily replicated in a variety of work force development programs

To learn more: Email Kristi Maryman at kmaryman@healthedcouncil.org