Youth Prevention Training projects
The DeKalb County Board of Health, Office of Chronic Disease Prevention, seeks a qualified Trainer to
design four (4) presentations and present them in eight (8) comprehensive trainings.
Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, $650 million was dedicated to chronic
disease prevention efforts administered through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). "Communities
Putting Prevention to Work" (CPPW) is a community capacity-building program for instituting populationbased
policy, systems and environmental change in communities to decrease tobacco use and exposure
to second hand smoke.
The DeKalb County Board of Health (DCBOH), one of four (4) grant recipients in the Urban Area Tobacco
Projects group, will work with the selected individual or organization to support the DCBOH's CPPW
initiative, which includes the implementation of evidenced-based interventions aimed at reducing tobacco
use in adults and youth throughout DeKalb County. More specifically, the CPPW programmatic goals are
to: 1) prevent youth from initiating tobacco-used 2) lower smoking rates in high risk populationsd and 3)
reduce exposure to secondhand smoke.
Please see the attached document for more detailed information.
