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Youth Fight for a Healthy Merced

6/29/2016

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By Maryam T. Crogman
Boys & Girls Club of Merced, community engagement team leader


When it comes to fighting for a healthy community, Merced is moving in the right direction. Community groups are working hard to bring education to our decision makers, and one by one, each of the issues that affect our community are being tackled. But change is slow, and the task sometimes overwhelming. Merced is in need of continued service from committed volunteers to keep up and push forward.
 
The Boys & Girls Club community engagement team is made up of young gladiators doing this work. The mission for our team is twofold: surveying school areas to understand the advertisements big tobacco companies are crafting to appeal to youth in their environments; and surveying high school and college youth to understand what they know about tobacco, and their understanding of the policies in place in their schools and their housing complexes.
 
Our young gladiators provide education to our City Council, which is currently considering passing into law a protective buffer zone requirement that would limit tobacco advertising around Merced schools. Our team also contacts Merced landlords and housing managers to appraise their policies on smoking and tobacco, and helps them move toward creating healthier and safer environments for tenants. The team members attend block parties, organize events, survey and teach tenants about tobacco, and help administrations formulate non-smoking policies in their housing contracts.
 
One thing the team has discovered along the way is what a big problem tobacco really is in Merced. The laws that are in place are not always respected, and do not offer enough protection to Merced residents, especially kids, from the hazards of tobacco. Our team also found that high school students really want more education on tobacco, as they are so highly exposed to ads for cheap, colorful and appealing tobacco products all around their schools. Team members even found a clear neighborhood disparity in how much and how large the ads were. More and bigger ads were displayed outside, in view of school children, in South Merced than in North Merced.
 
Our young gladiators are watching and acting to make our city a better place to be. Get involved Merced! Support our young leaders: speak up for healthier public places, and more education. A healthier town is a more productive town. We believe in you Merced!!


Lucha de jóvenes por un Merced saludable

6/29/2016

Por Maryam T. Crogman
El club de niños y niñas de Merced (Boys & Girls Club of Merced), líder del equipo de participación en la comunidad.


Cuando se trata de pelear por una comunidad saludable, Merced va en la dirección correcta. Grupos de la comunidad están trabajando duro por llevar la educación a los que toman nuestras decisiones y cada uno de los asuntos que afecta a nuestra comunidad se ha ido abordando poco a poco. Pero el cambio es lento, y las tareas son muchas veces abrumadoras. Merced necesita servicios continuos por parte de voluntarios comprometidos para mantenerse, impulsar y seguir adelante.  

El equipo de trabajo de la comunidad, Boys & Girls Club se compone de gladiadores jóvenes haciendo este trabajo. La misión de nuestro equipo es doble: estudiar las zonas escolares para comprender los anuncios que grandes empresas de tabaco están elaborando para atraer a los jóvenes y su entorno; y estudiar a los jóvenes de secundaria y de universidad para entender lo que saben sobre el tabaco y su comprensión de las pólizas establecidas en sus escuelas y en los lugares donde viven.
 
Nuestros jóvenes gladiadores proporcionan educación a nuestro Ayuntamiento, el cual actualmente está considerando pasar una ley que impide y limita la publicidad de anuncios de tabaco alrededor de las escuelas de Merced. Nuestro equipo también contacta propietarios y administradores de viviendas de Merced para que refuercen sus pólizas de fumar y del tabaco, el cual ayuda a crear una ambiente más saludable y seguro para los residentes. Los miembros del equipo asisten a fiestas de barrio, organizan eventos, encuestas, y enseñan a los residentes sobre el tabaco. También ayudan a las administraciones a formular pólizas en los contratos de vivienda en donde se prohíba fumar.

Una cosa que el equipo ha descubierto a lo largo del camino es el gran problema e impacto que el tabaco tiene en Merced. Las leyes ya establecidas no siempre son respetadas, y no ofrecen suficiente protección a los residentes de Merced por los peligros del tabaco, especialmente a los niños.  Nuestro equipo también descubrió que los estudiantes de la escuela secundaria realmente quieren más educación sobre el tabaco, ya que están altamente expuestos a las publicidades de productos de tabaco baratas, coloridas y atractivas alrededor de sus escuelas. Los miembros del equipo incluso encontraron disparidades en la cantidad y en qué tan largos eran los anuncios. Más y más grandes anuncios fueron encontrados afuera, a la vista de los niños de la escuela, en el sur de Merced que en norte Merced.
 
Nuestros jóvenes gladiadores están observando y actuando para hacer nuestra ciudad un lugar mejor en donde vivir. ¡Involúcrese Merced! Apoyen a nuestros líderes jóvenes: apoyen, defiendan y hablen por lugares públicos saludables y por más educación. Una ciudad saludable es una ciudad más productiva. ¡Creemos en ti Merced!


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