Show-Me Smoke-Free Programs

In the 2008-2009 school year Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services implemented the current Youth Tobacco Use Prevention Initiative. Under this initiative and in collaboration with its partners and contractors, the tobacco and healthy communities programs will provide technical assistance and funding to schools and communities to organize and train Smokebusters and YEA! TEAM youth groups (high school and/or middle school based). Each group along with its adult mentor(s) will learn to: 1) be tobacco-free role models; 2) effectively educate the public, their parents/guardians, their peers, and younger children about the negative consequences of tobacco use and the influences of tobacco in the community; 3) counter tobacco influences with pro-health messages;  and 4) effectively advocate for tobacco-free school and community environments.  

Through the end of the 2008-2009 school year, contracts have been implemented with the following six organizations (five universities and one metropolitan health department) to provide the programming in more than 160 schools throughout the state of Missouri. 

University of Missouri - Columbia

Northwest Missouri State University

Kansas City Health Department

Missouri Southern State University

Missouri State University

As funding allows these programs will be continued in the existing schools and expanded to additional schools in the 2009-2010 school year. Information on the activities of each group will be available on this website so stay tuned!

If you are a grantee and would like to submit material fo this site please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Instructions for submitting your program information will be available on this website by April 1, 2009.

We expect to have a big flashy public launch of this website in April. In the meantime please check out the site and provide feed back to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Show Me Smoke Free is funded by Missouri's Department of Heath and Senior Services.