SULLIVAN COUNTY — Area students joined schools across the United States in participating in National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week in March as well as Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action in April.

Students from Liberty, Robert J. Kaiser and Eldred Middle Schools competed in poster contests, created inhaler tubes and learned about vaping and e-cigarettes from the CATCH My Breath youth vaping prevention program, which is led in Sullivan County by Sullivan 180.

Take Down Tobacco Day and National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week are observed annually to educate students on the effects of addictive habits such as vaping, and to empower them to help make a change in their community.

This year, Sullivan County middle school students competed in classroom poster contests on the theme “Vaping’s Not Our Thing.”  

At Robert J. Kaiser Middle School, 48 students recently graduated from CATCH My Breath and the program is currently in progress at Liberty Middle School.

To bring the CATCH My Breath program to a school, organization or youth group, email Nicole Blais, Sullivan 180 prevention coordinator, at Nicole@Sullivan180.org or call 845/295-2684.