Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE)

A youth development opportunity for middle and high school students designed to build leadership skills and prevent substance use through weekly meetings and school-wide events.

A theory-based and evidence-informed educational resource created by educators and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students' use of tobacco and nicotine products.

A program developed by the American Lung Association to help teens quit using all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and "Increase accurate knowledge about the harms of tobacco and nicotine dependence".

YAP is an addiction prevention club at La Entrada. Together, staff and students discuss different addictions youth are facing and discuss different coping mechanisms to reduce and eliminate substance use. Topics include nicotine, alcohol, mental health, and the impacts of social media.

Prevention Programs partners with Breathe California Sacramento Region to discuss tobacco related topics and provide tobacco prevention education lessons that address tobacco industry marketing tactics using various trending media platforms as evidence.

YAS is an annual leadership workshop that brings leadership clubs across the district together to learn about nicotine related topics and prevention education in addition to learning new leadership skills to bring back to their school campuses.