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Welcome to Vaping Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW)!  Vaping PPW is a quick and easy to use positive youth development program for prevention and health professionals who want to prevent e-cigarette use and promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and positive identities among youth.  

Vaping PPW is an adaptation of the evidence-based SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness program which is listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development, the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) and other evidence-based registries.  Vaping PPW also utilizes an evidence-based practices screening and brief intervention format recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 

Vaping PPW is the only single-session e-cigarette use prevention program designed to increase health-enhancing behaviors including physical activity and sports, healthy eating, getting adequate sleep, and practicing stress control.  It can be implemented in any setting including school, community, health care, sports, recreation, juvenile justice, home, and others.

 Vaping PPW is founded on the Behavior-Image Model (BIM), a wellness-based framework that targets naturally motivating positive peer and desired future images to increase motivation for change and multiple health behavior goal setting to increase self-regulation skills and self-efficacy of participants.  

Vaping PPW is highly flexible and can be used as a stand-alone intervention, or as an add-on component to other prevention, health, sports, fitness, recreation, education, intervention, or treatment programs.  While it was created as a universal prevention intervention, organizations across the US and abroad use it as a selective and indicated prevention intervention for high-risk populations.   

Your Vaping PPW program comes with a manual and a digital download of all reproducible materials needed to implement your program to countless participants. The Vaping PPW program includes:    

1.                 Step-by-step implementation directions;

2.                 A brief self-administered youth health and fitness behavior screening survey;

3.                 Two script protocols for easy presentation of either a group or individual lesson that presents positive image content linking healthy and substance use behaviors;

4.                 An optional validated screening survey and protocol to assess individual high-risk e-cigarette and other substance use and refer those youth for additional services;

5.                 A set of colorful slides with illustrations of youth modeling healthy habits;

6.                 A goal plan/contract for motivating and initiating multiple behavior change;

7.                 A 7-Day Calendar Log;

8.                 Healthy Behavior Goal Setting Goals & Tips for implementers and participants;

9.                 Paper or online youth pretest and posttest surveys to evaluate immediate or one-month follow-up program effectiveness;

10.            A paper or online Instructor’s Survey to assess the quality of each lesson presentation;

11.            A Fidelity Checklist to increase implementation reliability;

12.            Phone and email program support; and

13.            Separate online or onsite certified training workshops to learn how to implement the Vaping PPW program, or train others to implement it, with fidelity and maximum effectiveness. 

Vaping PPW takes about 45 minutes to implement and is available in three versions for: 1) High school adolescents ages 14-18, 2) Middle school adolescents ages 10-14, and 3) Elementary school children ages 8-10. 

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