National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Webinar, March 12

Tobacco Use By Youth is Rising – Vital Signs

According to CDC’s latest Vital Signs issue, Tobacco Use By Youth is Rising: More than 1 in 4 high school students and about 1 in 14 middle school students in 2018 had used a tobacco product in the past 30 days. This was a considerable increase from 2017, which was driven by an increase in e-cigarette use. E-cigarettes use increased from 11.7% to 20.8% among high school students and from 3.3% to 4.9% among middle school students from 2017 to 2018. No change was found in the use of other tobacco products, including cigarettes, during this time.

Learn more:

Read Tobacco Use By Youth is Rising – Vital Signs Issue

Watch the Tobacco Use By Youth is Rising – Vital Signs YouTube Video

CDC Vital Signs Youth and Tobacco Statistic

Help share the recently released Vital Signs issue on social media:

Twitter:

9 million middle and high school students used tobacco products in 2018. Learn how you can help reduce youth tobacco product use in the latest #VitalSigns report from @CDCTobaccoFree: https://bit.ly/2VVafba @CDCGov
Nearly all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, contain nicotine. Nicotine can lead to addiction and harm the developing brain. Get the latest data in new @CDCTobaccoFree #VitalSigns report to take action to reduce youth tobacco product use: https://bit.ly/2VVafba @CDCGov
#DYK E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among youth, ahead of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookah, and pipes. Get the latest data in @CDCTobaccoFree #VitalSigns: https://bit.ly/2VVafba @CDCGov

Facebook:

9 million middle and high school students used tobacco products in 2018. Learn how you can help reduce youth tobacco product use in the latest CDC Vital Signs report from CDC Tobacco Free: https://bit.ly/2VVafba
Nearly all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, contain nicotine. Tobacco product use by young people can lead to addiction and harm their developing brains. Read the new CDC Vital Signs report to get the latest data and take action to reduce youth tobacco product use: https://bit.ly/2VVafba CDC Tobacco Free
Did you know? E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among youth, ahead of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookah, and pipes. Learn more about how e-cigarettes have increased youth tobacco use in the latest issue of CDC Vital Signs: https://bit.ly/2VVafba CDC Tobacco Free

Human Trafficking & Impacts on Employment Opportunities Webinar

RegisterDate: February 26, 2019

Time: 2:00 p.m. ET (75 minutes)

*Closed captioning will be provided

Webinar Overview:

Workforce development services provide critical resources for survivors of human trafficking who are seeking to rebuild their lives, yet women, men, and children who have experienced sex or labor trafficking face unique obstacles that can create barriers to education, training, and employment. Understanding these complex barriers and adopting trauma-informed strategies to workforce solutions will not only improve services for survivors of human trafficking but will strengthen services for all clients.

Futures Without Violence will discuss the elements of human trafficking in the United States and how this crime can impact the success of survivors enrolled in workforce development programs. Faculty will cover the protections offered to survivors, and provide insight into the unique types of education and employment-related challenges that survivors may face after they are no longer in a trafficking situation, and offer basic strategies to improve employment outcomes for survivors.

As a result of this webinar, participants will be better able to:

Identify elements of human trafficking and how they impact survivors’ ability to access and thrive in education and employment services;

Determine potential obstacles survivors face when seeking services from traditional education, training, and employment programs; and,

Summarize the basic types of protections and resources available to survivors of human trafficking that service providers can pursue to help improve survivors’ employment opportunities.

Presenters:

Sarah Gonzalez Bocinski – Program Manager for Economic Justice and Workforce Initiatives – Futures Without Violence

Mónica Arenas – Senior Program Specialist – Futures Without Violence

Perla P. Flores – Division Director and Chair – Community Solutions and South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking

Eesha Bhave – Program Specialist – Futures Without Violence (Moderator)