Register now for vaping information seminar
ALBANY — Registration is open until September 21 for “Behind the Cloud,” what you need to know about vaping and its effects on young people to be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on September 28 at the Boulder Falls Center, 605 Mullins Drive, Lebanon.
The program is sponsored by Linn Together Community Training and has a maximum capacity of 300 participants.
Register at www.linncountyhealth.org/adg/page/topic-month.
Dr. Michelle Peace, forensic scientist and associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, will lead the program.
Topics will include:
- How e-cigarettes work and how they can be manipulated.
- Unlabeled substances being used in vaping devices.
- The EVALI outbreak (E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury)
- How vaping affects youth.
Those who complete the program can earn two Continuing Education Units of credit.
Co-sponsors are the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam, CHANCE Recovery, Family Tree Relief Nursery, Greater Albany Public Schools, Holistic Housing, Jackson Street Youth Services, Lebanon Community Schools, Linn County Alcohol and Drug Program, Linn County District Attorney’s Office, Linn County Juvenile Department, Linn County Mental Health, Milestones Family Recovery, Ophelia’s Place and Oxford House Chapter 19, Parenting Success Network and Samaritan Health Services.
