Youth Leadership Teaching the Future Today

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Youth LeadershipTeaching the Future Today

• Kari Quiton, CPP
• Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coordinator
• USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden Schools

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Prevention Coordinator

• Coordinate District Wide Prevention Programs
• Parent Education
• Student Education
• Sponsor Teens Leading Teens
• Sponsor SADD
• Mandatory Counseling
• Faculty Education
• Administration of Grant Funds
• Surveys Communities that Care, Youth Tobacco
  Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• Involvement with Prevention Coalitions
• Write and Review Drug and Alcohol Policies

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Manhattan High SchoolTeens Leading Teens

• Teens Leading Teens (TLT) is a club that is
  dedicated to promoting an anti-tobacco message
  within the Manhattan School District and in the
  community.
• TLT provides many opportunities for students to
  be involved in tobacco prevention as well as
  opportunities for leadership.
• Mission Statement
• To promote a tobacco-free lifestyle through
  the education and empowerment of youth!

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Prevention

• A comprehensive effort aimed at reducing the
  likelihood that a specific group of people will
  develop problems related to the use of alcohol,
  tobacco, and other drugs.
• Our program involves a variety of approaches one
  of which is youth led activities.

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Strategies

• Education
• Social Skills
• Alternate Activities
• Environmental Changes

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Education Overview

• Youth provide facts about alcohol, tobacco, and
  other drugs and related issues which help to
  influence a persons decision-making processes.

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Education Red Ribbon Week

• Red Ribbon Week is a week at the end of October
  that focuses on being drug free.
• Educational activities include passing out red
  ribbons and flyers, hanging posters around the
  campus, and having speaking events for students.
  Red Ribbon Week Activities
• The Chain of Life
• Seatbelt Check
• Poster Display
• The Chain of Life is when T.L.T. and S.A.D.D.
  students set up a table during lunch that
  students and faculty can pledge to be drug free
  by signing their name on a piece of paper that
  will be used to make a chain. The chain is
  displayed in the school as a reminder of their
  pledge.

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Education DARE Presentations

• Throughout both semesters, students in T.L.T go
  to Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School and Susan
  B. Anthony Middle School giving students facts on
  the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
  These presentations are completely youth led and
  designed, and focus on both peer education
  techniques and the development of social skills.

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EducationHealth Class Presentations

• Each quarter Teens Leading Teens officers provide
  tobacco education and prevention activities to
  9th grade health classes.
• These activities increase education and awareness
  of the dangers of tobacco and the resources
  available to students.

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Social Skills Overview

• Youth lead activities that address healthy
  decision-making and improve interpersonal
  relations

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Social SkillsWebster Conference Center

• The purpose of this event is to encourage the
  students of T.L.T to act as leaders around their
  peers.
• This event gave T.L.T members the opportunity to
  work together as a group and build their
  relationships with one another.
• Webster Conference Center Activities
• Log Walk
• Ready to Fly
• Balance Platform
• A-Frame
• The Wall
• T.L.T. members gained an opportunity to
  experience what they teach.

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Alternative Activities Overview

• Events and activities designed and implemented by
  youth that focus on the social needs while
  supporting a alcohol, tobacco, and other
  drug-free environment.

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Alternative Activities Homecoming

• During fall Homecoming, T.L.T and S.A.D.D design
  a float for the Homecoming parade. The float
  theme focuses on tobacco prevention.

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Alternative Activities Camp Leadership

• Camp Leadership is an annual event in which 100
  elementary age students attend a leadership camp
  facilitated by high school students.
• Camp Leadership Activities
• Board Walk
• Robin Hood
• All Aboard
• Trust Fall
• Spider Web
• Gator Crossing
• Blind-fold Walk

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Alternative Activities Spring Fling

• Spring Fling is an event where TLT and SADD
  members set up activities for students to
  participate in at the High School.
• The goal of Spring Fling is to provide a safe
  alternative activity for students in which they
  can have fun instead of engaging in potentially
  dangerous activities on a Friday night.
• Spring Fling Activities
• Carnival
• Dance
• Open Gym
• Movie Night
• Independent Film Festival
• B.S.U. Step Show
• Free Food
• Prizes

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Environmental Changes Overview

• Efforts to create change and decrease the
  availability of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

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Environmental Changes Smoke-Free Bingo

• Smoke Free Bingo was started as part of the Great
  American Smoke Out in cooperation with the Riley
  County Manhattan Health Department, American
  Cancer Society and American Legion.
• Smoke Free Bingo started a few years ago and it
  was a once a year event where people could play
  Bingo in a smoke free environment.
• This event was so successful that the American
  Legion holds smoke free bingo 3 Sundays and 1
  Wednesday every month.

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Environmental Changes Operation Sitting Duck

• Sitting Duck is a Great American Smoke Out event
  that is held at a restaurant that allows smoking.
• The point of Sitting Duck is to promote a smoke
  free environment for people of all ages to enjoy
  eating out while advocating for clean indoor air
  in the community.
• The first 100 participants receive a free
  Operation Sitting Duck t-shirt.

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• We cannot always build the future for our youth,
  but we can build our youth for the future.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1882-1945

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Questions?

• Contact Information
• Kari Quiton
• Manhattan High School
• 2100 Poyntz Avenue
• Manhattan, KS 66502
• Kariq_at_manhattan.k12.ks.us
• 785-587-2100 extension 310