Tips for Creating a Quality Tobacco Peer Education ProgramIra Sachnoff, Consultant , Peer Resource Training and Consulting, SFUSD, CCCOE and Fremont USD, peersira@aol.com, 415-282-5298

1) Recruitment and Selection 2) Quality Training 3) Student Ownership 4) Make it FUN 5) Have them work in teams 6) Practice, Practice and then Practice

Make sure to include in the Training:1) Short Term Consequences2) Fun ways of teaching Facts3) Interactive Activities 4) Manipulation and Advertising 5) All about the Chemicals 6) How to answer the question: What’s worse Marijuana or Tobacco (it will come up)7) Facilitation/Teaching Skills8) Where students can get quit services

Goals when training your TUPE Peer Educators

1) We want you to leave today with new information on Tobacco2)We want to demonstrate some activities that you can use or adapt when conducting TUPE PE.3) We want to show that learning about Tobacco can be fun

Goals for the class when TUPE Peer Educators teach:

1) We want you to leave today with new information on Tobacco2)For those Non Tobacco users, we’d like to keep you tobacco free3) For those current tobacco users, we’d like to encourage you to cut back and consider quitting4) Have fun

Ira Sachnoff

(415) 282-5298

peersira@aol.com

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