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Public Health and Rehabilitation Counseling Students and AHEC - Helping Prevent Youth Tobacco Use
The Florida Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) has brought to the College of Public Health and Health Professions an exciting opportunity to educate youth on the hazards of tobacco use. This is a program that AHEC has been conducting for more than 10 years, and this year is the first that students in PHHP have been invited to participate.
Contacts:
Jamie L. Pomeranz, Ph.D, CRC, CLCP
Assistant Professor
Rehabilitation Counseling Program
Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health
HPNP, 101 S. Newell Drive Room 4162
P.O. Box 100175
Gainesville, FL 32610-0175
(352) 273-6745 Office
(352) 273-6048 Fax
Kitty Christian, BS/HEB
Graduate Assistant
Public Health
Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health
(352) 262-2619 Phone
(352) 377-1325 Fax
Helpful links:
The main Florida AHEC site: http://www.flahec.org/
This page has information on the program and a link to an informative video: http://www.flahec.org/tob/
Informational web sites:
This CDC site has good general information on youth tobacco use prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/youth/index.htm
This Mayo Clinic site also has good general information on youth tobacco use prevention: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/nicotine_research_center/youth.cfm
Other participating Colleges:
College of Dentistry, http://dental.ufl.edu/
College of Medicine, http://www.med.ufl.edu/
College of Nursing, http://con.ufl.edu/
College of Pharmacy, http://www.cop.ufl.edu/
Sponsors:
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration,
SAMHSA, http://samhsa.gov/
Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA, http://hrsa.gov/
Association for Mdical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, AMERSA,
http://amersa.org/
The Florida Department of Health, http://doh.state.fl.us/
The Florida AHEC Network, http://flahec.org/index.html
Area Health Education Center, http://flahec.org/ahec/