What is T.A.T.U.?

Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.), is a peer education program in which high school students are trained to teach about the hazards of tobacco use to middle and elementary school students.

T.A.T.U. challenges teens to answer:

• Why has the tobacco company spent over $31 million in the State of Alaska advertising their product? And why is youth their main target?

• Why is tobacco, the only product on the market that when used as intended will hurt or kill you, still legal?

• Why are cigarette ingredients not listed on the pack?

• How is tobacco the number one cause of preventable death?

How can I implement T.A.T.U. in my community/school?

In order to implement T.A.T.U., your community/school needs to send interested adult program facilitator(s) to an all day training sponsored by the American Lung Association® of Alaska.

We would need commitments for:

• One or two adult program facilitators, and

• One school program coordinator that would be in direct communication with the American Lung Association® (this person can be one of the facilitators).

Interested in becoming a T.A.T.U. facilitator? Contact us at (800) 586-4872.

What does the adult T.A.T.U. facilitator's training involve?

The adult facilitators' training consists of a one-day 6-hour training - which also includes:

• One T.A.T.U. facilitators' manual and program packet per facilitator

• Lunch

• Copies of the program evaluation component

• A Certificate of Completion

• Support from the American Lung Association® Office during program implementation

The adult T.A.T.U. facilitators training covers the following topics:

• An overview of T.A.T.U. program
  

• Tobacco 101

• How to recruit T.A.T.U. peer educators

• How to manage the T.A.T.U. program and T.A.T.U. peer educators

• How to develop an action plan and market T.A.T.U. to middle and elementary schools

• How to evaluate the effectiveness of the T.A.T.U. program

What does the teen T.A.T.U. facilitators training involve?

Using hands on activities and plenty of interaction with the other teens, this day-long training is fun, busy and exciting. It prepares youth to create their own tobacco prevention presentation. They get to be as creative as they want - posters, raps, skits, videos, game shows, etc.!

The youth training workshop agenda includes:

1. Segment 1 - Welcome and Introductions

2. Segment 2 - Community building

3. Segment 3 - T.A.T.U. overview

4. Segment 4 - Learning about your audience

5. Segment 5 - Risk Awareness

6. Segment 6 - Video Time!

7. Segment 7 - Truth in Advertising

8. Segment 8 - Using the facts

9. Segment 9 - Planning presentations

10. Segment 10 - Developing an action plan

Resources

For a list of Alaska facilitators, click here!

Peninsula Smokefree Partnership youth page, click here!

Reality Check Web site, click here!

Teenquit.com, click here!

thetruth.com, click here!

Through With Chew, click here!

Voice - Have Your Say, click here!

Tobaccofacts.org, click here!