PATH hosted a successful town hall meeting as a call to action to protect our youth on January 26th, 2023.

The Great American Spit Out is February 23rd this year. This is a day to encourage people to stop using smokeless tobacco products.

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Kick it California (KIC) can help you quit!

Red Ribbon Week is October 23-31, 2021. You can help make a difference by joining PATH and participating in Red Ribbon Week activities.

Red Ribbon Week 2020 took place October 23rd through the 31st. PATH (Partnership in Action for Trinity Health) members sponsored a poster contest and brought drug, alcohol, and tobacco prevention lessons into local middle-school classrooms throughout Trinity County. PATH member and Teen Challenge advocate, Irl Everest, contributed a recently created inspirational video to the school presentations. Featured in the video is a local woman who had attended Douglas City School an

Today's vapes don't look like traditional e-cigarettes, but you can still spot the signs of teen vaping if you know what to look for.

Walk & Roll was a success! Thank you to the community, businesses, and partners that made it so great.

Vaping may seem harmless, with it's appealing flavors and lack of smoke, but looks can be deceiving.

Is your teen using flavored tobacco, vapes, or JUUL’s? There are 15,000 tobacco flavors and counting! That’s how many flavored tobacco products are currently accessible to youth, all of which are packaged in deceptive ways. Scary, isn’t it? You might be wondering, why are youth interested in flavored tobacco? We’ve been telling them for years that tobacco is dangerous. Youth use flavored tobacco because it tastes like candy, it’s packaged in a way that is not easily recogni

We collected so much food! Thank you! Thank you to everyone who donated food and helped make the PATH food drive, Trinity Food Share, a success. PATH received a bounty of donations, filling up over a dozen large totes. The donated food has been divided up and distributed to food pantries in Weaverville, Douglas City, Lewiston, Hayfork, and Hyampom. Special thanks to those businesses, stores, and schools that helped collect the food, including Dollar General, Trinity County M

Trinity County schools have joined the national Red Ribbon Week campaign to unite and take a visible stand against drugs. The Red Ribbon Campaign is the oldest and largest drug prevention program in the nation, reaching millions of young people during Red Ribbon week from October 23rd-31st each year. This year’s national theme is “Life is your journey. Travel Drug Free.” Burnt Ranch School students created this Red Ribbon out of themselves. Most of our local schools mark the

This is the new face of tobacco. Long gone are the days of Joe Camel and stinky cigarette smoke, but the risks are still the same. Vaping is clean and flavorful. Flavors like ice cream, popcorn, and candy in fun packaging make it look fun and harmless. It looks safe, but it isn't. Teens are risking a lifetime of nicotine addiction and lung damage. Flavored tobacco hooks kids . Vaping liquid contains nicotine, which is addictive, and 1,000's of other chemicals. The long

Do you want to make our community better for our youth? Join us for a community dinner and discussion on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. We...

During the month of September PATH will be collecting food donations for our local food pantries in Trinity County. This project was created to assist Trinity County families and individuals access healthy food in support of our coalition's goal to increase access to affordable, healthy food for all. We are accepting non-perishable, unexpired food items such as canned fruits and vegetables, soup, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, beans, tuna, oatmeal, baking mixes, juice, powdered m

When e-cigarettes first launched they weren't always easy to spot because they were designed to look like a traditional cigarette. Now they can be even harder to spot for parents because they can look like anything. One of the popular brands among youth is Juul e-cigarettes, which look a lot like a flash drive and have different flavored "pods." E-cigarettes can appeal to youth because they come in fun flavors and they don't look like regular tobacco products, which they k