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 ​​Welcome Back to School!

We hope that you had a relaxing and reenergizing summer break! We are looking forward to a productive school ye​ar and continuing your efforts to help your students make healthy choices around tobacco, vapes, nicotine, and marijuana.
We are happy to continue to support you in educating the school community about the importance of preventing students’ tobacco and vape use and helping them quit if they are already using. The TUPE Office continues to encourage schools to ​​promote Alternatives to Suspension (ATS) as an approach to dealing with students caught using tobacco products while avoiding unintended negative impacts on student learning. We encourage administrators to use the free Youth Vaping Alternative Program Education (YVAPE) program as an ATS intervention to address tobacco-use violations in a manner that helps students deal with addiction without harming academic achievement. 
We hope that you will explore this website to​ find new and updated resources to support you in your work. Here’s to a wonderful year!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​- California Department of Education (CDE) TUPE Office​​


Resources: ​
-Alternative to​ Suspension (English)
-School E-Cigarette Toolkit (English)​
-School E-Cigarette and Vaping Devices (English)
-School ​E-Cigarette and Vaping Devices (Spanish)
-Triangulum: Tobacco-Vaping-Marijuana (English)​
-Triangulum: Tobacco-Vaping-Marijuana (Spanish)​
-Preventing the Under-Age Sale Tobacco and E-Cigarettes (English)​
-Preventing the Under-Age Sale Tobacco and E-Cigarettes (Spanish)​


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What We Do

The mission of the Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) program is to prevent and reduce tobacco and vape use among California school-aged youth.