HOW DO WE SUSTAIN THE ENERGY?
COMMENT CONSERVONS NOUS NOTRE éNERGIE?
HOW DO WE STAY CONNECTED AND KEEP WORKING TOGETHER?
COMMENT RESTONS NOUS CONNECTéS POUR CONTINUER DE TRAVAILLER ENSEMBLE?
E-mail telephone MSN - online discussion boards Wesbites
Important to keep talking about this issue, with peers, with groups and contact the other members of the conference through email, chat lines, and phone.
Stay focused, review notes and binder. This will help us to stay positive and concentrate on the task at hand (which is staying connected).
Having a website/message board on the internet for only our group to access and to leave notes, messages and ideas.
Get involved in the community. Take initiativeÉ once you get involved, you can't stopÉ it feels great and your energy will stay high!
Delegate write a monthly report (submitted to Health Canada, Elizabeth M.) on how smoke-free spaces is affecting their communities / city / town / environment. And how this tool kit (that we're developing!) is influencing the society around us. Included could be more ideas / suggestions that we think could be as effective as our tool kit. So Health Canada can see that youth are still committed to the issue of smoke-free spaces and are still trying to get our ideas heardÉwe can have conference calls, meetings, conferences
Having a website/message board on the Internet for only our group to access and to leave notes, messages and ideas (see note at the end of this is about Students Commission discussion boards.
-Keep
in contact/communicate ALL THE TIME!
-Updates
-Find people in your community
who are passionate about the topic
- Tell your story to 1-5 people
-Take
ideas home and sharing them with organizations to implement them in our communities
- Contact people in your province to see how they are doing and if they need
help
-Group email once
month (MSN community)
-Updates from student's commission and a chat place
to talk
-If someone finds something emails it to everyone and has discussions
on it
- Press release within the next two weeks (tell us how it turned out)
- Help each other edit written "stuff" (e.g. press releases letters to the
editors )
- Send each other info on the projects that we are doing (they will
want to do the same projects)
-Write
to local newspapers
-Contact TV stations/radio
-Going to school and showing
TRUTH tapes
-Having info booths in schools
-Talk to a teacher/counselor
or health nurse
-Phone conversations if we can
HOW DO WE PUT OUR IDEAS INTO ACTION?
COMMENT METTONS-NOUS NOS IDéES EN ACTION?
Support-base
(someone to help us to get us active)
Work with local tobacco control board
Work with other youth groups
Support other young people who aren't usually
very active; work with them!
Write to the newspaper. Letter to the editor.
Talk to school official about posters and billboards.
Talking to school
guidance counselor or staff member about creating a program for smoke free spaces.