PARTNERS

Teen Futures Media Network, UW, is collaborating with the American Lung Association and American Cancer Association on the American Legacy Grant. Here's what our partners are doing in relation to the ALF grant. For additional information, visit their Web sites or contact their Washington State chapters.

American Lung Association
The American Lung Association (ALA) is working to foster youth empowerment through our Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) Program. ALA is focusing on training, implementation, evaluation, follow-up and mini-grant funding for TATU adult facilitators and TATU youth statewide.

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society Speak Out! Youth Initiative provides youth, and the adults who support them, with training and opportunities to influence real-world issues that make a difference in saving lives. Youth who have big ideas, want to kick tobacco to the curb, want their voices heard, want training or to train others, and meet like minded peers are Speak Out! youth. Speak Out! youth are in your community making a difference through putting on local activities, serving on leadership teams, starting youth coalitions and getting the word out there that Speak Out! is where it is at! No membership cards needed -- just your ideas, innovation and action.

What are youth involved in Speak Out! up to?

Camp Speak Out!
An annual youth advocacy leadership training where Camp participants, ages 14-18, learn how to mobilize their peers and communities around the issues of tobacco prevention and school health advocacy in a fun and interactive environment!

Youth Action Network
The Youth Action Network provides the opportunity for youth and adults in Alaska, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to exchange ideas and resources, to receive invites to local events, and to take part in additional training opportunities.

Community Advocacy Activities
Community advocacy activities provide meaningful opportunities for youth to engage their communities in the fight against cancer. The Youth Initiative Workshop is one example. These workshops are a new planning guide and tool kit which focus on assisting both youth leaders and their adult partners to build strong youth coalitions for tobacco prevention and advocacy. Youth who participate in these workshops will be eligible to receive grants that will allow them to transform innovative ideas into action.

What can youth really do?
•Attend Camp Speak Out!
• Attend a Speak Out! Youth Initiative local workshop
• Sign up for the Youth Action Network
•Become a Youth Initiative Advisory Team member
• Apply to be on the Camp Speak Out! committee
• Become a youth trainer
• Start a local youth coalition
• Apply for a mini grant
•Plan local activities

To learn more about becoming involved with the American Cancer Society, contact your local ACS staff person at 1.800.ACS.2345 or visit the ACS Web site.