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CDC releases updated Youth Engagement Guide

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health has published an updated Best Practices User Guide: Youth Engagement in Tobacco Prevention and Control.

This user guide focuses on the critical role of youth engagement in achieving tobacco prevention and control goals. Youth bring energy and enthusiasm to tobacco control efforts and play a vital role in educating the public and mobilizing their peers to push strategies forward.

The Best Practices User Guide: Youth Engagement in Tobacco Prevention and Control can help:

  • Develop a comprehensive approach to youth engagement that includes preparing to engage youth, involving youth in new tobacco control strategies, and sustaining youth engagement over time;
  • Learn from new examples how to engage youth in tobacco prevention and control;
  • Make the case for investing in youth engagement; and
  • Identify the best tobacco control resources and tools to help in planning efforts.

The online version of the guide is available on CDC’s Smoking & Tobacco Use Web site at https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/guides/pdfs/best-practices-youth-engagement-user-guide.pdf.

The guide was written in partnership with the Center for Public Health Systems Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

[The links on this post were updated on November 14, 2023.]