Welcome!
Thank you for visiting! This website is home to California Youth Advocacy Network’s (CYAN) College Program resources, tools, and trainings. CYAN strives to change the tobacco use culture in California’s K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and other youth and young adult communities by providing knowledge, skills, and tools to create local change for healthier communities. Our organization provides training and technical assistance to individuals, organizations, colleges and universities, and coalitions advocating for smoke and tobacco-free communities. This work is done in partnership with COUGH (Campuses Organized and United for Good Health) Student Leaders.
WHAT’S NEW
Earth Day 2024
Annually, the California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN) provides free resources to support California colleges and universities in hosting Earth Day events to increase awareness of commercial tobacco’s negative impact on the environment. This year's Earth Day event will be on Monday, April 22, 2024. More information for this year’s event is available here.
Webinar: Best Practices for Using Social Media to Support Quit Attempts
APRIL 30 @ 10:00AM - 11:00AM
CYAN invites you to participate in an upcoming webinar on utilizing social media to motivate and support youth and young adult quit attempts. Structured as a case study, the webinar will provide an overview of CYAN’s paid digital cessation campaigns which began in 2020 and were consumer tested with youth and young adult audiences throughout California. Topics will include campaign development, testing messages with youth and young adults, message preferences, and campaign outcomes. This webinar will also share CYAN’s best practices for crafting messages to support and motivate quit attempts, as well as share the digital cessation resources CYAN has available for the field.
2024 Smoke and Tobacco-Free College Conference
MAY 2, 2024 @ 9:00AM - 4:00PM
College and university staff, public health advocates, and community partners are invited to participate in CYAN’s annual statewide virtual conference highlighting current efforts to advance smoke/tobacco-free policies on colleges an universities and support students in quitting tobacco.
This year’s event is fully virtual and participants and divided into morning and afternoon sessions. More information about this conference is available here.
NAVIGATING THE WEBSITE
CATobaccoFreeColleges.org is an information hub for California Colleges and Universities that are looking to affect change on their campus. Within this site you will find downloads, training videos and events that can help you and your campus:
Adopt, implement, and increase compliance of smoke and tobacco-free policies
Collect data about tobacco use on your campus
Assess the level tobacco treatment offered to students
adopting a new policy
Learn how to navigate the shared governance process.
Access model policy language.
Download our 2023 Report Card on how our CA schools are doing with Smoke and Tobacco-Free policies.
Search our policy database and find out where your school ranks.
Not Tobacco-Free Yet?
Start Here!
Launching a New Policy
Learn how to roll out your new policy using announcements, signage and social media.
Download helpful handouts, graphics and videos that can aid in spreading your message.
Get organized with our recommended guidelines, checklists and timelines,
Smoke and Tobacco-Free Policy Compliance
Assistance with strengthening policy compliance through handouts and trainings.
Utilize student, staff, and faculty volunteers as Policy Ambassadors! Free, in-person trainings.
Like traffic school, Compliance Training videos outline the essential elements of the rules to people who have violated the policy.