Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE)
Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) is a comprehensive evidence-based tobacco-use prevention, youth dev elopment, intervention, and cessation program. The purpose of the TUPE program is to reduce youth tobacco, cannabis and vape use by helping students make healthy decisions through educational instruction and activities that build knowledge as well as social skills and youth development assets.
TUPE funding originates from tobacco tax revenue and provides prevention programs in grades six through twelve. Through TUPE, districts and school staff/administrators receive training and technical assistance in the following capacities:
- Tobacco-free Schools Certification
- Peer Advocate Training for youth leaders
- California Health Kids Survey (CHKS) and California Youth Tobacco Survey (CYTS) administration
- Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit curriculum trainings for teachers: You & Me, Vape Free! And Healthy Futures (Alternative to Suspension method)
- Brief Intervention Trainings for School Counselors (Alternative to Suspension method)
- TUPE networking meetings: Kick-Off & End of the Year Showcase
- Assigned TUPE staff to support Site Coordinators and customize youth engagement activities at school campuses
- Ongoing customized supports and technical assistance to school districts regarding alternatives to suspension
- Student Classroom Presentations
- Parent Presentations
TUPE Tiers of Support
TUPE offers a tiered systems of support to ensure students throughout Santa Clara County, receive the appropriate level of intervention needed to prevent substance-use. TUPE interventions are identified based on student risk behavioral data obtained through the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS).
TUPE Tier I
TUPE Tier I offers universal prevention strategies on campus that include:
Certification and enforcement of tobacco-free campus
Monitoring of youth risk behaviors and resilience data through the administration of the California Healthy Kids Survey biannually for grades 7th, 9th, and 11th (CHKS Survey)
TUPE Tier II
TUPE Tier II offers prevention and interventions strategies that include:
Monitoring of youth risk behaviors and resilience data through the administration of the California Healthy Kids Survey biannually for grades 7th, 9th, and 11th and the California Student Tobacco Survey
Providing intervention for those most at risk
Empowering youth through tobacco-focused youth development
Maintaining and enforcing tobacco-free policy
