VFHY 1st Quarter grant reports due Oct. 15

Well, the first quarter of the 09-10 grant year has ended and it's time to start preparing your 1st quarterly report. This report and simple instructions for completing the report can be found on the healthyyouthva.com website under grantees/forms. I have also included links in this post for your expedited access.

http://www.vtsf.org/grantees/forms/vtsf_qr_09_10.doc
http://www.vtsf.org/grantees/forms/instructions_quarterlyreport.doc

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about this form, or any other matters pertaining to your VFHY grant.

Henry

Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth Fall Conference

Remember folks, the VFHY annual conference is being held at the Downtown Richmond Marriott, October 7 & 8. Today is the cut off date for registering, so if you have not yet done so, be sure to visit the healthyyouthva.org website and register up to 2 people from your organization.

Johns Hopkins: Nicotine dose higher from secondhand smoke in cars

Sharing a ride with a smoker will give you a much heftier dose of nicotine than having a meal in a restaurant that allows smoking or hanging out at a smoky bar, according to new research.
Even opening the window or switching on the air-conditioner when a smoker lights up leaves significant amounts of nicotine in the air, according to the study by four researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
In fact smokers who put their windows down all the way averaged more nicotine in the air, perhaps because they tended to be heavier smokers or perhaps because the air whipping around inside their cars distributed smoke and nicotine more widely, said Dr. Ana Navas-Acien, one of the researchers and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins' School of Public Health.
"In any case it is clear that ventilation is insufficient to eliminate tobacco smoke," she said.

Follow this link for the full article: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/health_med_fit/article/B-TOBA17_20090916-220406/293396/