Apply for the Scholarships

Apply for the scholorships here and get more information too!

Application Deadlines

Scholarship applications must be received no later than August 3, 2007. All awardees will be notified the week of September 3, 2007, and have until September 21, 2007, to reply and accept the scholarship. Failure to meet the notification deadline will result in the withdrawal of the scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria

The Scholarship Subcommittee, guided by the criteria listed below, will have sole discretion in the selection of scholarship recipients.

The following criteria will be used to select scholarship recipients. Preference will be given to applicants who meet some or all of these criteria. The more criteria an applicant meets, the higher the chance of obtaining a scholarship.

* Applicant has an opportunity to improve a tobacco control program or activity, plans to do so after the conference, and makes a clear case that the conference will help in this effort.

* Applicant is a new attendee at a tobacco control conference.

* Applicant is a leader or representative of a community-based tobacco control organization, or an organization that can contribute to community tobacco control objectives, with an annual program budget of $50,000 or less.

* Applicant is a leader or representative of an organization whose constituency includes population groups that are currently disproportionately affected by, or underrepresented within, the tobacco control movement.

Persons who have attended previous tobacco control conferences or who are representatives of larger tobacco control agencies or organizations must present convincing evidence of their lack of financial support to attend the National Conference. As an example, this might include evidence of a ban on out-of-State travel by employees of their agency and a lack of other travel support. Representatives from organizations, such as a volunteers or board members, may be eligible for scholarships in addition to staff.

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BALL SURVEY

When would be the best day to have to ball?

Should we invite adults?

Should we invite people from both conferances, and not specifically just from the LGBTQ community?

any other suggestions?

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(sorry if your getting sick of me):(

Ball what is it for?

What a ball actually is..
The ball scene dates back to as early as the 1920's. The first balls were basically drag pageants, organized and thrown inside of grand ballrooms in Harlem. They were competitive in nature, with structures similar to other events in the Black cultural tradition -- such as cotillions, step shows, and carnivals.

Balls as we know them today are centered around several aesthetic categories, including Face, Body, Realness (which is often a play on Black masculinity), Fashion and Vogue (made popular by the classic Madonna hit by the same name). Cash prizes and trophies are the most common rewards. However, any ball kid (as members of this community refer to themselves) will tell you that the ultimate goal of competition is community recognition and status.

The purpose of our ball...
To incorporate youth into a community that many people dont get to see. We will allow youth (maybe professional adults) to perform sourounding tobacco. Categories will be chosen for the youth to perform under. youth are encouraged to be themselves and express themselves as such.

Specifics still to come.

Have any more input or have any suggestions, quesitons, or still confused? LEAVE A COMMENT.

THANKS ALL
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Phone Conferance (April 25th, 2007)

This post will be for people to post any ideas, questions, comments that people had sourrounding the phone conferance.

People In the Phone Conferance
Chico
Susan
April
Gustavo
R.E.
Sheryll

(sorry if I missed anyone or spelt the names wrong)

Anything else?

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Confernece GOALS & Ideas For The Youth Track

What types of presentations have you done at tobacco conferences or at LGBTIQ conferences?

If you have not been a presenter what ones would you like to see??

Here is the draft of the current conference GOALS:

We all agreed on: Expanding Our Movement through Sharing Lessons

We should expand the goal description and include in our call for abstracts. What do we mean by it?

Youth – encourage to learn from youth experts and expand lessons learned to the next generation

Expand to work better with mainstream tobacco control

Expand to work with diversity in a way that is deep and sincere (assure diversity across deep and sincere commitments to race, ethnicity, social economic status, urban culture, rural people, new/beginner advocates and advanced advocates so they can all come together to learn and expand movement)

Thinking about people who are new to the field and old hats to the field

Include special needs of L G B T I Q

This will keep us away from some of the more standard presentations people are submitting to other conferences.

Youth School Based Cessation Programs

Hey do any of you work with school based cessation groups or have you been through one? If my abstract gets selected I would like a youth to co-present with me at NCTOH, Thanks! susan

Update

Hey Everyone :D
It has been a wonderful last couple of weeks. I have gotten a few updates from the teens of Kauai. Where they had just begun an GLBT Group at a local high school. I will be going there either Monday or Friday afternoon to sit in and see what is going on :D. I'm so excited! What about yourselves?

Mahalo,
Sheryll :P

Hey

Hey Everyone!

So as far as I can see no one has posted anyone but me. Please email me to my yahoo address and let me know what I should do to fix this in a way so it makes it easy and fun to do. Just even a quick hello to this spot would be great!

Thank you!
Sheryll

To Everyone

Hi,
I hope I did this correctly! And this will work out for the best. Here it is, a way for all of us to tell each other our news when we are unable to be in a conference call... much less have one. I hope this works! And it was awesome to talk to you all on Monday's conference call!


Mahalo nui loa,
Sheryll