Throughout February 2021, the California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN) will be hosting a virtual workshop series to support smoke/tobacco-free interventions on college and university campuses. Each of the three days of the Smoke/Tobacco-Free College and University Workshop Series will feature a different aspect of smoke/tobacco-free college work and include a general session and two sets of breakout sessions.

Schedule

FEBRUARY 12, 2021 FROM 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Supporting Students and Campus Community in Tobacco Treatment and Quitting Nicotine will focus on supporting students, staff, and faculty in quitting nicotine and tobacco through new and innovative tobacco treatments strategies, including providing tobacco treatment support during the pandemic and distance learning.

* Health Services Association - California Community Colleges (HSACCC) is providing 3 CEUs for RNs attending this session.

FEBRUARY 19, 2021 FROM 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Advocating for Smoke and Tobacco-Free College Policy will focus on advocating for new smoke and tobacco-free policy adopting on community college, private college, and trade and tech campuses, with conversations on continuing advocacy efforts during the pandemic to encourage policy adoption before the reopening of on-campus learning.

FEBRUARY 26, 2021 FROM 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Implementation and Compliance of Smoke and Tobacco-Free College Policy will focus on implementing new smoke and tobacco-free policies on campuses as well as strengthening compliance of existing policies. This session will include breakouts on preparing colleges for re-opening as smoke/tobacco-free policies as well as using this time to create a plan for improving compliance when students return to campus.

Registration

Registration is open to campus partners, student advocates, California Tobacco Control Program-funded organizations, other public health professionals working with a college, university, and/or trade and technical college. This is a free educational event. Registration for each event will be closed the day prior to the workshop session. Recordings of all workshop presentations will be available after the series is concluded.

Agenda

A detailed agenda for each workshop session is available here.

Questions

If you have additional questions about this event, please contact Alex Byrd at alex@cyanonline.org.