By Karen Stokes In May, the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Poverty Network (WTPPN) and the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network will host “Same Game Different Smokers,” an … [Read more...]
Tobacco Prevention Advocates Visit Madison for Black Advocacy Day
Members of the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network (WAATPN) and Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Poverty Network (WTPPN) spent the day in Madison recently, joining others from … [Read more...]
Milwaukee Health Department Plans to Address Tobacco Disparities
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz When it comes to tobacco, most people know at least one person in his or her life who smokes. In Wisconsin, the state average reaches 16 percent, according to the … [Read more...]
Local Teens Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of Wisconsin Law Barring Indoor Smoking
By Edgar Mendez With the sun shining down on their smiling faces and a gentle breeze keeping them cool, members of FACT, Wisconsin’s youth-led tobacco prevention movement, gathered recently in … [Read more...]
Milwaukee teens inspired by “Selma”
By Edgar Mendez When Richard Lewis and his wife Lori Lewis raised $41,000 to send 6,000 kids to see “Selma,” the film that relives events tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights … [Read more...]
CYD Youth Working to Better Neighborhoods with the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention Poverty Network, Senator Lena Taylor & Representative Mandela Barnes
Career Youth Development Inc. (CYD) Youth are being trained to work in the communities they live in to make a positive impact. Recently CYD Youth received their training in advocacy from Senator … [Read more...]
Tobacco Prevention and Control Program volunteers among hundreds who testified at Milwaukee Hearing
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network represented The state’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) was well represented in the hundreds of people who attended and testified … [Read more...]
Wisconsin Wins program implemented state compliance checks in City of Milwaukee
The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network spearheaded the project in the City of Milwaukee On the streets they call them cigs, looseys and blunts, to name a few, but no matter what … [Read more...]