National award for publication on marijuana/e-cigarette prevention
The publication, Marijuana and e-cigarettes: Facts teens can use to make healthy choices, received first place in the National Newspapers Association Newspapers and Education contest.
The publication was developed by the King County Youth Marijuana Prevention and Education Program through a collaboration with the Seattle Times Newspapers in Education (NIE) program. The State of Washington Department of Health provided a grant to support this project. The publication was printed in the Seattle Times on Sunday, 5/30/2016. There are also two links to the online publication:
- The Seattle Times secured a front page seattletimes.com sponsored content position for the electronic flipping book. It is referred to below as a Showcase post and its link is http://www.seattletimes.com/nwshowcase/newspapers-in-education/marijuana-and-e-cigarettes-make-healthy-choices/. This is a short-term post.
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The flip book https://ad.seattletimes.com/FlippingBook/NIE/2016/DepartmentofHealth/ will be live for about one year. Feel free to post it on your social media and web sites. This publication can also be downloaded.
Teachers/educators interested in obtaining this publication and others educational materials should sign up for the free NIE program, http://nie.seattletimes.com/about-nie/. After registering, they will have electronic access to materials. They can also email the program staff directly to request any available hard copies at nie@seattletimes.com. The NIE curricula meets Common Core and Washington State K–12 Learning Standards.
