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Family Partnership wins grants to fight tobacco use
The South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative is a statewide assembly of leading health organizations, community coalitions and businesses committed to eliminating the toll of tobacco use.(Photo: Submitted)
Greenville Family Partnership has been awarded Youth and Young Adult Prevention and Community Partnership grants from the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative to address tobaccoas impact on South Carolinaas youth.
One grant will help implement programs that are designed to prevent tobacco use initiation among youth and address current youth use of tobacco products while the other will help develop programs and activities designed to address the toll of tobacco use throughout the community.
The funding, for which organizations compete, provides support for the mission of the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative to invest in a statewide plan to make South Carolina tobacco-free.
aWe look forward to providing tobacco education and media literacy awareness programs, workshops and trainings to youth, young adults and their parents,a said Carol Reeves, executive director of Greenville Family Partnership.
