American Indian Education Center Tobacco-Use Prevention Education Program

Purpose: The American Indian/Alaska Native youth are more likely to use e-cigarettes and almost twice as likely to be frequent users of e-cigarettes than high school students overall; 47.3% of American Indian/Alaska Native high school students reported past 30-day use of “electronic vapor products” including e-cigarettes compared to 32.7% of high school students overall. The purpose of this grant award process is to enable American Indian Education Centers (AIEC), funded by the California Department of Education (CDE) under California Education Code (EC) sections 33380-84, to implement supplemental prevention education, intervention, and cessation programs, and youth development programs directed at the reduction of commercial tobacco use among youths. The proposed programs must: Implement research validated Tobacco-Use Prevention Education Programs (TUPE) Target current smokers and students most at risk for beginning to use commercial tobacco. Offer cessation and pre-cessation classes or refer students who are current smokers to cessation classes. Utilize existing antismoking resources, including local antismoking efforts by local lead agencies and competitive grant recipient Eligible Applicants: In order to apply, the application AIEC must have met the commercial tobacco-free criteria. Applicants are ineligible for any TUPE grant funding if they have received directly or indirectly, any funding, educational materials, or services from the tobacco, vaping, or marijuana industries—even if for the purpose of implementing tobacco use prevention, youth development, intervention, or cessation programs. Eligible Geographies: Geographic distribution will be considered when funding decisions are made. Matching Funding: The grantee will receive another 40 percent payment by submitting to the CDE the second Expenditure Report due May 11, 2025, indicating that 80 percent of the prior 50 percent has been expended.The final 10 percent, or portion thereof, will be held pending receipt of the final program report, evaluation report, the final expenditure report, and the Inventory form all of which are due within 45 days of the grant termination date.

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