Texas Youth Tobacco Awareness Program (TYTAP)

TYTAP is responsible for ensuring that Texas youth are able to complete a tobacco awareness course as mandated by the 75th Texas Legislature through the Texas Health & Safety Code, Sec.161.253.

TYTAP uses the Texas Adolescent Tobacco Use and Cessation curriculum. The ongoing growth of this program and long-term evaluation is the result of collaboration between the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health and the University of Houston.

Have you been ordered by the court to complete a tobacco awareness course?

This 8 hour course is an approved DSHS worshop.

Contact us for workshop registration questions.

    Willie A. Taylor                                    Michele Taylor

832-689-4594     Fax: 281-447-9211      281-851-6598

    wt@ppmes.org                              mgt@ppmes.org

TOBACCO AWARENESS & PREVENTION PROJECT

"Before You Smoke, Dip or Chew...

Learn What Tobacco Can Do to You" 

Ø       Youth Tobacco Education

Ø       Youth Tobacco Drama Presentations

Ø       Youth Tobacco Essay Writing

Ø       Tobacco Seminars

Ø       Tobacco Awareness Exhibits

Ø       Tobacco Awareness Pamphlets  (English & Spanish)

Ø       Tobacco Awareness Gifts

Seminars                  Church Events      Community Events

Elementary                    Youth Retreats             Health Fairs

Middle School                 Women Retreats          Festivals

High School                    Men Retreats               Block Parties

College Campus             Youth Lock-Ins             Parks

Boys & Girls Clubs          Conferences                Shopping Malls

After School Programs                                      Sports Camps

Wilson Academy (5th-6th Grades)

TOBACCO PREVENTION & CESSATION SERVICES

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has discovered that 12 - 17 year olds who smoke cigarettes are:

• 14 times more likely to abuse alcohol
• 100 times more likely to smoke marijuana,
• 32 times more likely to use cocaine or other illicit drugs than their non-smoking peers. 

Since tobacco is a gateway drug whose use consistently occurs early in the sequence of risky behaviors that lead to alcohol and other drug abuse, PPMES is committed to providing education and activities that promote prevention & cessation of tobacco use of youth and adults. (See Tobacco Prevention & Cessation)

Alcohol and drug prevention education is available and can coincide with tobacco prevention education and activities.

 Youth and adults who have  serious alcohol & drug dependenciesreceive referrals to agencies that have the expertise to service their needs.

FUUSA summer camp 

Mading Elementary Tobacco Awareness Class

 Mading Elementary "Don't Choke" project

Woodson (K-8) Tabacco Awareness Class awards

Woodson (K-8) "Don't Choke" project

Holman Street Baptist Church College/Career Day Exhibit

Lone Star College