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Council: tobacco-prevention grant will pay student workers for outreach starting in February
Summary
The DWI Prevention Council said it won a tobacco-prevention grant that will allow paying high-school students to create social-media content and conduct classroom outreach; staff expect student workers to begin in February and the grant runs through April.
The DWI Prevention Council announced that it has been awarded a tobacco-prevention grant that will fund paid high‑school student workers to support outreach and prevention activities.
Sylvia, a council staff presenter, said the grant allows the council to pay students about four hours a week to create social-media content or visit classrooms, and that staff plan to start the student workers in February with the grant running through April. "We applied for a grama where we can pay students to work with us for around, like, 4 hours a week to create either content for social media or to go into classes," Sylvia said.
Council members discussed recruitment and program rules. Sylvia said staff want a diverse group of students and are still deciding whether participants must be nonusers: "We are also still debating if we would take current users, to still be part or if we would make that as a requirement that they have to be nonusers." Judy suggested recruiting through the high school art and digital-arts classes; Sylvia agreed to contact faculty and named a teacher she believes is Libby as a potential contact.
The council also discussed tying the grant work to other prevention events, including a pre‑prom activity and a push to bring the Arrive Alive demonstration back to schools. "We proposed this year as well was to have it come, like, 2 days at the high school and then 1 day either at LANL or the community side," Sylvia said, noting logistics for surveying students before, immediately after and two months after events will be required.
Members agreed to share flyers and coordinate promotion through team court and the teen center. Lauren Smith, incoming staff, offered additional outreach ideas for summer postdocs and interns, including themed trivia nights and partnering with local venues.
Next steps: staff will finalize recruitment criteria, contact school teachers for student referrals, and circulate event flyers and a schedule by email.
