Rural Alaska Community Action Program has run the YEAH program for the last four years with funding from the state. Through the program, teens get trained in public speaking and presenting before going to health fairs and presenting in classrooms.
Leihla Harrison is a sophomore at Soldotna High School. She and another ambassador just finished making an educational video about the dangers of vaping.
“The best part for me is getting to teach other kids about how dangerous it is,” Harrison said. “Because I see all these kids are vaping, and they’re smoking in the bathrooms and in the parking lots. And I want to educate them that it’s not a good thing to do, that it harms them.” Leena Edais is a sophomore at Dimond High School in Anchorage. She says she got involved with the program because a lot of her friends vape or use e-cigarettes.
“I know the effects of it, but a lot of kids don’t. They just think it’s like breathing air — flavored air — but it’s not. So I wanted to help kids around Alaska and the Lower 48,” she said.more than a third of Alaska teensThe non-profit Rural Alaska Community Action Program has run the YEAH program for the last four years with funding from the state.I believe every Alaskan has a right to timely information about their health and health systems, and their natural environment and its management.
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