NYC schools are getting $282K grant to help stop kids from vaping
New York City public schools will receive funding from the New York Health Foundation to expand a program designed to stop kids from vaping, the Department of Education announced on Thursday. The investment comes as the city appears to be making progress toward reducing teen vaping rates, but, trains educators in an evidence-based vaping curriculum and has already been adopted in some city schools since 2018, albeit without dedicated local funding.
Just 2.2% of New York City high school students surveyed in 2021 said they had smoked a cigarette in the last month. Osorio said his school has mostly dealt with e-cigarette use on campus as a disciplinary issue that typically results in detention. But he said teachers are now developing a lesson on the harms of vaping that students will have to complete during that detention.
She said students stopped vaping as much in the bathroom or near the school after they started getting in trouble more frequently.The city health department has worked with schools to tailor the national CATCH curriculum to New York City teens, Talati said. “We were really excited to find CATCH because it has an emerging and strong evidence base,” she added.
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