We want to know what other great tobacco prevention initiatives are going on at
other Elk Grove schools. Send us your program information to the attention of
Mike Cavallini at: Elk Grove Village Hall, 901 Wellington Avenue, Elk Grove
Village, IL 60007
Mead Jr. High:
•	Cancer Walk at the beginning of the year with proceeds donated to the American Cancer Society and Bear Necessities (a pediatric cancer research association). Students raised $23,000 in 2007.
•	Activities promoting a drug free lifestyle during Red Ribbon Week in October.
•	Tobacco prevention instruction to all 7th graders in their health classes.
•	Activities for Make a Difference Week every October, which this year included Ms. Illinois as an assembly speaker for cancer awareness.
Grove Jr. High:
•	DARE Program taught in all 6th grade classes.
•	Lessons on making healthy choices, including reasons to be smoke free, incorporated into health curriculum.
•	The Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) high school student group presents an anti-tobacco program to students.
•	Activities promoting a drug free lifestyle during Red Ribbon Week in October.
Adolph Link School
•	Fourth grade classes receive smoking prevention curriculum in their science unit.
Salt Creek School
•	The Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) high school student group presents an anti-tobacco program to students.
Rupley School
•	The Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) high school student group presents an anti-tobacco program to students.
Clearmont
•	The Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) high school student group presents an anti-tobacco program to students.
Elk Grove High School:
•	Every year, Elk Grove High School sets aside a day in November to take a stand against tobacco use by promoting the Great American Smokeout, an American Cancer Society initiative aimed to educate the students on the dangers associated with tobacco use and encourage smokers to quit for a lifetime by starting with just one day. The high school holds activities throughout the day for students to take part in, including pledging to be smoke free for the day, signing up for smoking cessation classes, and creating a graffiti banner with anti-tobacco messages. This year, 1,250 students pledged not to spoke, more than double the number that pledged last year, and 4 signed up for more information on how to quit smoking. Motivational speaker Jim Dedera came in and spoke to all students during their gym periods on an anti-tobacco message, the benefits of choosing to be tobacco free, and the costs of not doing so.
•	The Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) is a peer education program in which high school students are trained to teach about the hazards of tobacco use to middle and elementary school students. An overwhelming number of students signed up this past November to be trained to deliver the T.A.T.U. tobacco prevention program to local elementary school students. Due to the overwhelming response, the group was split into two groups to be trained. The first group of 21 students were trained in December, with the additional training scheduled for the beginning of February. Last year, a total of 28 high school students received this training and delivered the tobacco message to 1,000 elementary and junior high students including those from Salt Creek, Rupley and Clearmont.
•	Student teams participate in the annual Elk Grove Relay for Life to raise money for cancer prevention, and produce videos focusing on cancer awareness. The teams work together with American Cancer Society volunteers to register students and faculty teams.