A Good Day's Work: A Guide for Tobacco-Free Work Sites in Arizona
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A Good Day's Work: A Guide for Tobacco-Free Work Sites in Arizona, First Edition,
1999
La Paz County
Resist All Tobacco La Paz Area Coalition (RAT La Pac)
La Paz Count Health Department
1112 Joshua, #206
Parker, AZ 85344
Contact: Sandy Harker, Project Coordinator
Phone: (520) 669-6155
(520) 669-1100 (switchboard)
Fax: (520) 669-6703
E-mail:
lpcadm@redrivernet.com
Areas Served:
Services to incorporated cities include Town of
Parker, and Quartzsite, other communities include Bouse, Wenden, Salome,
Ehrenberg, Poston, Brenda, Parker Dam.
Program Description:Development of a local plan with cooperation of
coalition and staff. School prevention includes student activities, teacher
training, youth coalitions, and anti-tobacco curricula for middle school
students. La Paz County project participate in community events such as
health and county fairs, parades, sponsored local team sports with anti-
tobacco theme, annual Great American Smokeout, National Kick Butt Day
and local media counter-advertising. Reducing youth access with
compliance check program. Cessation services include youth diversion
program in high schools, collaboration with Guiding Expectant Mothers
(GEM) prenatal program, training health care providers, and cessation
classes for adults, individual pregnant women and their partners. Creating
tobacco free environments in homes, schools, work places public, places by
mobilizing the community to develop policy and enforce policy in these
target areas.
Summary :
47 A Good Day's Work: A Guide for Tobacco-Free Work Sites in Arizona, First Edition, 1999 La Paz County Resist All Tobacco La Paz Area Coalition (RAT La Pac) La Paz Count Health Department 1112 Joshua, #206 Parker, AZ 85344 Contact: Sandy Harker, Project Coordinator Phone: (520) 669-6155 (520) 669-1100 (switchboard) Fax: (520) 669-6703 E-mail: lpcadm@redrivernet.com Areas Served: Services to incorporated cities include Town of Parker, and Quartzsite, other communities include Bouse, Wenden, Salome, Ehrenberg, Poston, Brenda, Parker Dam.
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