ISLAND TEENS ADVOCACY TEAM

ITAT NEWSLETTER

SEPTMBER 2021 ​

ITAT Presidency Fall Leadership Conference

On September 18th, 2021, Provo High School ITAT hosted the annual Fall ITAT leadership conference. The presidencies from each ITAT club attended this conference to learn leadership skills, tobacco education, and mental health skills to pass on to the rest of their club members. The students participated in several workshops focused on the following topics: mental health, vaping, team building, leadership, advocacy and role playing. Each presidency also prepared a team cheer to perform for the other students as part of their introductions.  
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Provo ITAT presidency facilitating workshops

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Students participate in a team building exercise

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Students participate in a team building exercise

Poly Days at Thanksgiving Point

On labor day weekend, Queen Center had a tabling booth at Polynesian Days at Thanksgiving Point. Our students and advisors manned the booth and educated the event attendees on Queen Center and ITAT missions. They also provided tobacco and vaping education, gave out our "Be smart, dont start" Smarties candies, and signed up students for ITAT clubs. 
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ITAT students and advisors educated attendees on tobacco facts
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ITAT students and advisors educated attendees on tobacco facts
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ITAT students at Poly Days booth

Tobacco Facts: 

MY LIFE MY QUIT: mylifemyquit.com is a new service available to teens, to assist them in quitting the highly addictive nicotine products that comprise the teen vaping epidemic. All they need to do is text "Start My Quit" 855-891-9989 to talk or text with a quit coach to cheer them on in their journey of quitting!

  • Each year smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires COMBINED!
  • More than 400,000 people die from smoking each year -- one out of every five deaths in the U.S, that's the same as three fully loaded jumbo jets crashing each day with no survivors!

  • Each day 2,000 young people will take their first puff on a cigarette. 300 will become regular smokers. That's more than 2000 per year. One out of three of them will die from a disease caused by their smoking.

  • (Utah DOH, center4research.com, tobaccofreekids.org, truthinitiative.org) ​


COVID UPDATE:

 To get scheduled for the COVID-19 vaccine, go to healthevents.utahcounty.gov 

                      UPCOMING EVENTS:

OCTOBER: Educating for voting month, Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health Awareness month

Oct 31: Halloween- Be Safe!

Be smart- Don't start!
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