Advocating for a
Healthier California
The California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN) advocates with and for youth and young adults to create equitable, sustainable change to advance overall community health.
What's New
Webinar: Best Practices for Using Social Media to Support Quit Attempts
April 30 @ 10:00am - 11:00am
CYAN invites you to participate in an upcoming webinar on utilizing social media to motivate and support youth and young adult quit attempts. Structured as a case study, the webinar will provide an overview of CYAN’s paid digital cessation campaigns which began in 2020 and were consumer tested with youth and young adult audiences throughout California. Topics will include campaign development, testing messages with youth and young adults, message preferences, and campaign outcomes. This webinar will also share CYAN’s best practices for crafting messages to support and motivate quit attempts, as well as share the digital cessation resources CYAN has available for the field.
CA Smoke and Tobacco-Free College Conference
May 2, 2024 @ 9:00am - 4:00pm
College and university staff, public health advocates, and community partners are invited to participate in CYAN’s annual statewide virtual conference highlighting current efforts to advance smoke/tobacco-free policies on colleges an universities and support students in quitting tobacco.
This year’s event is fully virtual and participants and divided into morning and afternoon sessions. More information about this conference is available here.
Supporting engagement and advocacy.
youth
Empowering California’s youth to create tobacco-free environments. CYAN’s Youth Program supports the development of youth-adult partnerships in order to effectively advocate for social norm change in local communities.
college
Through training, education, and support, CYAN is partnering with student and public health advocates to eliminate tobacco and tobacco industry presence on California college and university campuses.
emerging tobacco
Youth and young adults are more likely to use new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products than any other age group population. In order to combat this reality, CYAN provides support and resources to organizations striving to prevent young people from tobacco use.
Resources
CYAN supports tobacco-free prevention and advocacy throughout the California. We provide resources such as program-specific educational materials, tools, and fact sheets as well as web-based trainings to increase knowledge and capacity of tobacco control advocates.
Educational Materials
CYAN’s educational materials are designed for youth and young adults. The goal of these materials is to increase awareness of the realities of new and emerging tobacco products, prevent tobacco use, and encourage quit attempt among young people.
Fact Sheets & tools
A variety of fact sheets, tools, and materials are available for youth, young adult, and tobacco control advocates working to limit tobacco in local communities. The resources range from informational fact sheets to tools to support community engagement and advocacy activities.
online Trainings
CYAN utilizes web-based technology to provide a range of training opportunities for individuals advocating for smoke/tobacco-free policies as well as those promoting quit attempts. Trainings are available for youth advocates, college students and staff, and military health professionals.