We are working with high schools in Paradise, Oroville, Biggs, Durham, and the Community schools to provide tobacco cessation, intervention, and education. We have partnered with CSUC to provide evaluation services for these schools as well as all Chico High Schools. Districts use state TUPE funds to hire Bruce, who comes to the site and delivers a four lesson hands-on, interactive, tobacco education curriculum. The program is currently in place with Woodrow Wilson in Gridley, Bangor, Concow, Feather Falls, and elementary schools in the Chico Unified School District. If you are interested in having Bruce come to your school, contact him at 538-6673.
Students are able to see and touch real hearts and lungs.
Hospital staff explain their functions, and the dangers of tobacco use. BCOE and Lung Association staff provide tobacco education stations as well. If you are interested call Bruce at 538-6673. BCOE has sponsored this event for the past six years and will continue it in March of 1998. We coordinate activities at schools throughout the county to try to raise awareness of the dangers of tobacco.