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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Youth Advocacy as a Strategy for a Tobacco Free Society
2020.0: Sunday, December 11, 2005: 2:30 PM-6:00 PM
CE Hours: 3 contact hours
Youth Advocacy as a Strategy for a Tobacco Free Society
Partnership:National Education Association Health Information Network
Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview:
This institute will present a half-day workshop on youth advocacy as a tobacco control strategy and will review the state of the art of evaluating youth advocacy programs. The presenters have recently completed a four year evaluation of a National Education Association Health Information Network youth advocacy program to promote a tobacco free society. Participants will learn an advocacy model and how to use the advocacy curriculum and well as how to develop instruments to evaluate advocacy programs. The presenters will also include information from a conference on youth advocacy held in March 2003 that was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
2:30 PM - 2:40 PMIntroduction - Sparks
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMPresentation and discussion of theoretical basis for an advocacy strategy and use of an example of a four step youth advocacy model to promote a tobacco free society - Sparks
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMDisucssion of curriculum standards for advocacy in health education and the current environment school-based, after-school and/or community programs for youth advocacy - Sparks
3:30 PM - 4:15 PMBrief discussion of the role of a teacher or youth coordinator in assisting youth to development advocacy plans. Participants then design an advocacy program and develop action plans and evaluation plans
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBreak
4:30 PM - 5:15 PMPresentation and discussion of expected outcomes for advocacy measurement challenges, with examples of the psychometrics of measurement instruments in current use - Sparks
5:15 PM - 6:00 PMEvaluation - Sparks
6:00 PM - 6:20 PMYouth Advocacy as a Strategy for a Tobacco Free Society  [ Recorded presentation ]
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Organized by:APHA-Continuing Education Institutes
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA