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Twenty-one Colorado faculty districts, seven constitution faculties, one cooperative schooling providers board, and one youth residential therapy middle have been awarded $11.4 million in funding over the subsequent three years for vaping schooling and prevention applications.
The cash comes from a $31.7 million settlement between the state of Colorado and e-cigarette producer Juul Labs Inc. Colorado sued Juul in 2020, alleging that it focused youth with misleading advertising and performed down the well being dangers of vaping. In settling the lawsuit, Juul didn’t admit any wrongdoing.
Colorado is poised to spend the majority of the settlement cash on a $20 million grant program geared toward bettering kids’s psychological well being. However the state can also be giving smaller grants straight to high school districts, nonprofit organizations, and authorities entities.
Colorado Legal professional Common Phil Weiser introduced the recipients of the smaller grants in a press launch Tuesday. The college district and college recipients are:
Alamosa College District: $244,968
Atlas Preparatory College in Colorado Springs: $85,000
Aurora Public Faculties: $140,267
AXL Academy in Aurora: $238,000
Bennett College District: $218,547
Middle College District: $198,098
Chavez-Huerta Preparatory Academy in Pueblo: $46,940
Colorado Navy Academy in Colorado Springs: $117,471
Dolores County College District: $45,681
Downtown Denver Expeditionary College in Denver: $78,000
DSST Public Faculties in Denver and Aurora: $114,000
Eagle County College District: $213,353
Elizabeth College District: $130,217
Fountain-Fort Carson College District: $131,009
Gunnison Watershed College District: $74,534
Harrison College District: $253,405
Lake County College District: $87,543
Mancos College District: $54,300
Mapleton Public Faculties: $36,681
Montrose County College District: $100,000
New Legacy Constitution College in Aurora: $71,624
North Park College District: $187,545
Pueblo County College District 70: $127,657
San Luis Valley BOCES: $273,870
College District 49: $126,961
Sierra Grande College District: $100,985
Southern Peaks Regional Therapy Middle in Cañon Metropolis: $36,181
Steamboat Springs College District: $125,635
Strasburg College District: $91,500
Summit College District: $50,000
Twelve nonprofit organizations and authorities entities have been awarded a complete of $6 million. These recipients are:
- twenty first Judicial District Legal professional’s Workplace, Juvenile Diversion Lighthouse Program: $224,010 for a vaping schooling program for youth in Mesa County, with a give attention to rural communities
- Boys & Women Golf equipment in Colorado, Inc.: $855,979 for neighborhood engagement and youth substance use prevention and peer-led applications at 50 golf equipment throughout Colorado
- Broomfield Public Well being and Surroundings: $202,184 for nicotine alternative remedy and peer assist applications to assist younger folks give up vaping, with a give attention to LGBTQ+ youth
- Denver Division of Public Well being and Surroundings: $541,158 for nicotine alternative remedy, neighborhood engagement, and trauma-informed counseling for youth
- Mountain Youth: $500,000 for vaping prevention schooling, media campaigns, cessation applications, and youth-led initiatives within the Eagle River Valley
- Jefferson County Public Well being: $400,000 for vaping schooling and cessation providers for youth
- Companions of Delta, Montrose & Ouray: $297,161 for mentors who will assist center and highschool college students with behavioral points by way of school-based applications
- Companions for Youth: $335,487 for an initiative to attach youth in Routt County with trusted adults and interact them in optimistic actions to stop substance use
- Rocky Mountain Middle for Well being, Promotion and Schooling: $800,000 for a program that can practice adults to construct robust connections with youth at school, household, and neighborhood settings
- Servicios de La Raza: $950,000 to deploy a bilingual vaping-cessation program for Latino youth
- College of Colorado/Colorado College of Public Well being UpRISE: $544,018 to increase a youth-led social justice motion for tobacco management
- Youth Healthcare Alliance: $350,000 for a program by which school-based well being facilities will take part in an alternative-to-discipline initiative for youth who’re caught vaping
Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.
