• Think smoking and tobacco use is gross?
• Wish all your friends and family members who smoked would stop?
• Like the Truth commercials on TV about the tobacco industry's lies?
• Want to build your own leadership skills and help organize a big Summit for youth?
• WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?????

The Youth Advisory Group for 2006-2007 has been selected! 

Congratulations to them all. We've got a lot of work ahead of us this year.

WHAT IS THE YOUTH ADVISORY GROUP?

The Youth Action Initiative is a statewide effort to build a youth movement on tobacco control and prevention in Massachusetts . The Youth Advisory Group ( YAG ) is one of the most important components of the Youth Action Initiative (YAI) which is serving to keep this movement truly youth-driven and youth-led.

WHAT IS THE YAG BE WORKING ON?

The YAG is currently planning the Youth Summit for the spring and giving feedback to a website design.  They meet once a month to learn about tobacco control issues and also to work on these areas.  See the YAG Blog to get updates on what they're doing!

INFORMATION FOR THE YOUTH ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERS

The following is important information for the YAG members in case you misplace your binders!

Meeting Schedule

• Meeting #1: Saturday, 11/4/06
• Meeting #2: Saturday, 11/18/06
• Meeting #3: Saturday, 12/16/06
• Meeting #4: Saturday, 1/20/07
• Meeting #5: Saturday, 2/10/07
• Meeting #6: Saturday, 3/24/07
• Meeting #7: Saturday, 4/28/07
• Meeting #8: Saturday, 5/19/07

Frequent asked questions about the Youth Advisory Group

For information and an application form, contact Sophia Kim, Project Coordinator of YAI, at skim@tmfnet.org or 617-279-2240, x281. Deadline for applications is October 6, 2006.