MOST Spartans DOUGHNUT Vape

With the help of the Minnesota Tobacco-free Alliance, students in the Spartan SPARC youth group asked Simley students trivia questions about the dangers of vaping during lunch.

MOST Simley High School and Inver Grove Heights Middle School students DON’T vape.* To get that message out to more students, the Inver Grove Heights Spartan Prevention, Advocacy, and Resource Coalition (IGH SPARC) welcomed middle and high school students to school with doughnuts as a reminder that MOST Simley and IGHMS students DOUGHNUT vape! IGH SPARC members and students in Simley’s SPARC youth group handed out doughnuts along with stickers and napkins with the message on them. 

At lunch, Minnesota Tobacco-free Alliance Executive Director and IGH SPARC Member Elyse Levine Less set up a trivia challenge for Simley students. Students answered trivia questions about the dangers of vaping and spun a prize wheel to win branded pens, shirts, and more. Students from Spartan SPARC also helped ask trivia questions.

IGH SPARC’s goal is to reduce youth substance use in Inver Grove Heights. The coalition organizes free events to provide fun, positive alternatives for kids. The group also focuses on using data to show Inver Grove Heights Schools students that MOST of their peers DON’T drink alcohol, vape, or use marijuana*, even if they think their peers do. Inver Grove Heights parents, students, and community members and Inver Grove Heights Schools staff are invited to join IGH SPARC. Learn more about joining the coalition at www.ighsparc.org/join.

*Data based on the 2022 Minnesota Student Survey of 1,432 IGH Middle School and Simley High School students in grades 6-12.

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