Recent studies have found that for tobacco programs aimed at youth, the active participation of youth greatly improves program effectiveness. We are conducting a youth-led prevention study with a Southeast Asian youth leadership group based in West Contra Costa County of the East San Francisco Bay Area. In the first year of this pilot study we propose to develop and implement a program of tobacco education and prevention research to be conducted with the thriving Southeast Asian Young Leaders group, and with a group of young adult Southeast Asians from the same community. The Young Leaders group is primarily composed of at-risk Southeast Asian youth and is a project of Asian Pacific Psychological Services, the community partner in this collaboration. We are jointly developing a series of trainings and exercises through which the youth and young adult groups increase their understandings of tobacco, their community, and tobacco prevention in order to design a program to increase awareness of tobacco in the community and prevent tobacco use among Southeast Asian youth and adults.

 

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