I-STEP (Iowa Students for Tobacco Education and Prevention)

When the Iowa Legislature created the Division of Tobacco Use Prevention and Control, they stressed the importance of youth involvement in reducing tobacco use among young people in Iowa. Iowa's youth-led anti-tobacco program gives Iowa teens the true, unfiltered facts about the tobacco industry's marketing efforts.

The program provides peer-to-peer education to youth across the state, promotes leadership at the local level, and implements events and activities across the state to engage youth in the fight against tobacco. The goals are to change the general social attitude towards tobacco use, raise awareness through education, create effective counter-marketing, protect the rights of all Iowans from secondhand smoke, and support cessation among the young tobacco user so they quit and encourage youth to never begin using tobacco.

To find out more about youth tobacco prevention and how you can get involved visit the contact the Iowa Department of Public Health for information.

Guide for starting a Youth Tobacco Prevention Group

• Resource Guide  
• Online Chapter Reporting Survey

Agendas

• I-STEP Executive Council Retreat "Roosevelt Room" February 26, 2012  
• Youth Tobacco Prevention Executive Council Webinar January 11, 2012  
• Youth Tobacco Prevention Executive Council Retreat "Roosevelt Room" December 10, 2011  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” June 15, 2011  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” May 14, 2011  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” February 11, 2011  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” November 13, 2010  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” August 2, 2010  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” June 16, 2010  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” February 6, 2010  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” November 7, 2009  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” August 6, 2009  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” June 15, 2009  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” May 30, 2009  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” February 21, 2009  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” November 15, 2008  
• JEL Executive Council Retreat “Roosevelt Room” July 28, 2008  

Minutes

• Webinar Minutes January 11, 2012  
• Meeting Minutes December 10, 2011  
• Meeting Minutes May 14, 2011  
• Meeting Minutes February 5, 2011  
• Meeting Minutes November 13, 2010  
• Meeting Minutes August 3, 2010  
• Meeting Minutes June 16, 2010  
• Meeting Minutes February 6, 2010  
• Meeting Minutes November 7, 2009  
• Meeting Minutes August 6, 2009  
• Meeting Minutes June 15, 2009  
• Meeting Minutes May 31, 2009  
• Meeting Minutes February 21, 2009  
• Meeting Minutes November 15, 2008  
• Meeting Minutes July 28, 2008