News - Project: VISION, Inc.

This fall, eight of Project: VISION’s high school students came together to form the Teen Advisory Panel, a subcommittee of The Coalition for Asian Substance Abuse Prevention. The goal of the panel was to create a media advocacy piece that would help spread awareness and promote an anti-tobacco message to the community, especially to their peers and other community youth.

With the help of the Asian Health Coalition’s Substance Abuse Prevention Program staff, our students began the project by learning about the tobacco problem, including tobacco use statistics and health consequences of tobacco use. Students then researched our own community’s tobacco problem and even interviewed smokers to understand reasons smokers use tobacco as well as why they find it difficult to quit.

Using this information and after a group brainstorm, the team decided to create a video PSA to help educate their fellow youth. Panel members then spent several weeks developing a concept, planning, writing, and producing the video. The group’s finished product, titled “Hide and Seek: When Will Smoking Catch up to You?”, can be viewed on YouTube here. Check out their impressive work and feel free to repost!

All in all, the team achieved success! Students had fun and learned a lot. One student said he was “grateful for the opportunity to help the community,” and another said she was glad to be a part of this project because “tobacco use is such a large problem in our community.”

Finally, thank you to the Asian Health Coalition for bringing this program to our students! And, look for the Teen Advisory Panel to be back with another project in the spring!

Great Job to the team members of TAP!

Yuyu Li

Hailee Chan

Victoria Lei

Alex Liu

Bryan Liu

Hana Liu

Mandy Liu

Vincent Luciano