The RHIP Substance and Alcohol Misuse Workgroup is accepting applications to develop and engage youth in vaping prevention.
Donor Name: Central Oregon Health Council
State: Oregon
County: Crook County (OR), Deschutes County (OR), Jefferson County (OR) and Klamath County (OR)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/05/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $100,000
Details:
Youth Engagement in Vaping Prevention Grants aims to address reducing youth vaping through leveraging existing partnerships and establishing new best practices to make sustainable changes throughout the region through policy, systems, and environmental strategies. Grantees will focus on addressing risk factors, changing social norms, behaviors, and mental health that contribute to reducing vaping use among young people.
PSE strategies
The following are examples of PSE strategies that may be considered, but are not limited to:
- Retail Environment:
- Restrict the sale of menthol and other flavored products
- Increase the price of products through non-tax approaches such as minimum product pricing, minimum pack sizes, and prohibiting coupon redemption and other price discounting
- Reduce the number, location, density, and types of retail outlets, such as limitations on sales near schools
- Decrease exposure to marketing that appeals to youth
- Tobacco Free Zones:
- Increase commercial tobacco-free policies in spaces like parks, playgrounds, recreational spaces, places of worship, and organizational or business grounds
- Prohibit commercial tobacco and e-cigarette industry sponsorship of events like parades, powwows, fairs and festivals, and religious events
- Update policies to include commercial tobacco products of any kind including vaping products and smokeless.
- Supportive Schools:
- Strengthen commercial tobacco-free school grounds and events policies and practices
- Build capacity to support implementation of evidence based vaping curriculum and/ or alternatives to out of school suspension programs
- Youth-Focused Activities:
- Provide safe alternatives for young people to participate in
- Support youth coalitions or groups to further develop leadership and advocacy skills
- Marketing:
- Develop vaping prevention materials specifically targeted to youth
- Cessation:
- Provide opportunities for staff to get trained in American Lung Association’s Not on Tobacco (N-O-T) teen smoking and vaping cessation program
- Host Not on Tobacco cessation support groups.
Funding Information
- Maximum Award Amount: up to $100,000
- Available Funds: $350,000
- Funding Duration: Single and multi-year projects will be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include organizations that represent and serve youth or that demonstrate the ability to serve youth such as school-based clubs and organizations, community-based coalitions, community based youth organizations, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, tribal governments, or local governments
- Applications must be submitted by an organization with an EIN/Tax ID. Both nonprofit and for-profit organizations are welcome to apply
- Projects must directly impact the specified Future State Measures of the Regional Health Improvement Plan
- Projects must take place within Central Oregon:
- Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties
- The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
- Northern Klamath County, limited to:
- Gilchrist, Chemult, Crescent, and Crescent Lake Junction
- Projects partnering with tribes may be required to submit a memorandum of understanding
- (MOU)
- Projects must include prioritized populations & communities that are intentionally excluded from power, access, and privilege
- Projects must be culturally and linguistically responsive for prioritized populations
- Proposals must demonstrate the organization’s ability to develop an innovative youth engagement initiative that focuses on youth-led tobacco/vaping prevention strategies as it relates to recreational use.
- Project strategies must be youth-driven and contribute to sustainable change within the community
- Proposed project activities must include policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change. PSE change is a way of modifying the environment and systems to make healthy choices easy, practical, and available to all community members, changing social norms
- Applicants must align their approach with the CDC’s Best Practices for Youth Engagement in Tobacco Prevention and Control.
- The applicant must describe how this work will continue once the grant funds are used.
For more information, visit COHC.
