Key Dates
Central Voice Hub Coordinator
Indiana Teen Institiute
5190 N. High School Road
Indianapolis, Indiana 46254
office: (317) 299-7831
fax: (317) 299-7832
toll free: 1-888-ITI-2033
Voice Youth Empowerment Events
Next Voice Event Date: June 26, 2010
02-27-10 Event: Herald Times Article
02-27-10 Event: Herald Times Editorial
Indiana Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
Angela Morris
Program Director, Voice/Training
Office: (317) 234-6598
Mobile: (317) 519-3049
Fax: (317) 234-1786
World No Tobacco Day 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Key Contacts
Indiana Teen Institute Summer Camps
High School Camp
Monday, July 12 - Friday, July 16
Middle School Camp
Tuesday July 20 - Friday, July 23
Central Hub Partner Meeting
Monday, April 26, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Crawfordsville, IN
Check It Out:
Minority Tobacco Free Coalition of Delaware County - Voice
Key Web Resources
Key Resources!
"Target " 4'x18' collaborative mural by Xavier Cortada and ITI Summer 2002 participants. The mural portrays the targeting of youth by the tobacco industry, the loss and suffering experienced by smokers and their loved ones, and ultimately the phoenix rising from the ashes. The Phoenix taking flight expressing the hope for a happier and healthier Indiana as a result of the VOICE movement.
Join Together: Tobacco Headlines
Tobacco Control Links
The Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency is responsible for developing programs to prevent and reduce the usage of tobacco and tobacco products in Indiana.
Your link to Lorene Sandifur's story and additional facts and resources.
Voice is a youth movement dedicated to exposing the tobacco industry and empowering you with truths you never heard before. The key is, we're not preachy or a group of fanatic non-smokers. You have the right. to decide if you want to smoke or not. But you should know the facts first. That's what we're about.
The Alliance for Health Promotion and the American Cancer Society have created a web site resource regarding secondhand smoke. This site offers resources to service industry workers and businesses and also offers a place for people to sign up to receive action alerts and get involved in this campaign!
At age 46, Rick's wife, Marie, died from lung cancer caused by cigarette smoking. His mission is to reach as many youth and adults across America as possible about the dangers of tobacco use.
Tar Wars, a tobacco-free education program and poster contest, is supported by the American Academy of Family Physicians and reaches approximately 400,000 fourth- and fifth-grade students annually.
Edgy. Hard-hitting. Unapologetic. That's truth®, the foundation's advertising, grassroots, and online campaign to prevent youth smoking. By telling the truth about the tobacco industry and its products and exposing their marketing tactics, truth® allows teens to make informed choices about tobacco use. It doesn't preach. It doesn't judge. It just works.
American Legacy Foundation is the national, independent public health foundation established by the 1998 tobacco settlement. Legacy is dedicated to reducing tobacco use in the United States with major initiatives reaching youth, women, and priority populations through grant awards, research initiatives, marketing campaigns, training programs, and collaboration with national and local partners.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a private, non-profit organization committed to protecting children from tobacco addiction and secondhand smoke.
Kick Butts Day is an annual initiative that encourages activism and leadership among elementary, middle and high school students. It's the day America's kids stand up to tobacco, and America's adults stand up for kids.
The goals of SMOKEFREE.net, the SMOKEFREE Network, are:
1. To win the right to breathe smokefree air.
2. To facilitate communication among smokefree advocates.
3. To facilitate communication between smokefree advocates and key decision makers.
4. To share information about the tobacco cartel.
5. To provide an integrated login for all websites in the SMOKEFREE.net family
Two types of Tobacco News: 1) The daily news summary, which is a compilation of all the days stories. 2) Breaking News, which allows you to get the stories as we find them. If you are a tobacco control professional, you should sign up for at least your state. Much, much more information available.
The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting organizations in building and growing highly effective tobacco control programs. Whether your organization is national, state or community-based, TTAC can assist you. We provide expert assistance, in-depth information, and a wide variety of services to help our clients succeed in their tobacco control efforts.
"You can quit smoking now!" An online guide to quitting.
CigaretteLitter.Org is an informal, non-profit organization dedicated to dramatically reducing cigarette litter across the United States. Our goal is to accomplish this task by raising public awareness of the issue and educating communities about the facts regarding cigarette litter. We want to form a network of smokers and non-smokers, individuals and businesses, non-profit and government organizations, local police and fire departments, and anyone else who shares our goal of a national landscape free of cigarette litter.
Website designed and maintained by Mark R. Kaser Copyright 2002-10 ITI Adventure-Indiana Teen Institute All Rights Reserved
In BADvertising Country we counter the seduction of dishonest tobacco advertising by doctoring-up tobacco ads to make them honest.
TobaccofreeU.org is the official BACCHUS website devoted to tobacco control with college and university campuses and young adults. You will find information about types of tobacco, policy change, data collection and evaluation, and sample campus and community programs.
Ignite empowers the youth of America to hold the tobacco industry accountable at every level by directing public officials to act responsibly. Ignite engages in local and statewide advocacy for tobacco policy change, pressures politicians to reject campaign contributions from tobacco companies and their interests, informs voters of tobacco issues in key elections, and coordinates national political efforts.
University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network - Anyone with an interest in tobacco and nicotine research - whether researcher, student, government official or journalist - will find this site to be a rich source of information and a key resource for advancing their studies.
Teens Against Tobacco Use ® (T.A.T.U.) is a youth empowerment program teaching teens to fight back against tobacco use. Essentially, we turn teens into teachers. Recent focus groups have shown that teens are eager to talk to younger kids about tobacco use. Younger children are impressed by teenage role models and enthusiastically understand and accept the information which they are presented. By encouraging & supporting the T.A.T.U. program in your school, you will be making a huge step in preventing today's youth from becoming tomorrow's tobacco users.
Take Note is a grassroots movement of volunteers from the entertainment industry supporting the right for all Hoosiers to be protected from secondhand smoke exposure.
Your link to The Indiana Tobacco Quitline. A free phone-based counseling service that helps Indiana smokers quit.
Video: "Voice Road Tour Recap"
Video: truth® "Bodybag" Commercial
Video: truth® "Shards O' Glass" Commercial
Video: "Stop Targeting Kids"
