Partners include the Community Health Services of Bloomington, Edina, and Richfield, and the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council.
Education is the key to prevention, and that saves money and lives.
This community-based grant from the MDH is the newest component of the comprehensive Youth Tobacco Prevention Initiative funded by a portion of the state s 1998 settlement with the tobacco industry. The goal of the initiative is to reduce tobacco use by 30 percent by the year 2005. Reducing exposure to secondhand smoke. Promoting comprehensive school-based prevention. Reducing youth access to tobacco products.