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Project SHOUT (Students Helping Others Understand Tobacco) is a tobacco-use prevention program starting with
fifth-grade students and ending with the ninth grade. The intervention combines various educational, social
activism, and behavioral strategies with personalized telephone and mail boosters. Project SHOUT's classroom-based
curriculum is suitable for grades five through eight. The home-based booster program is suitable for ninth graders.
Project SHOUT is a five-year program. It includes a school-based intervention in grades five through eight and a
home-based intervention in grade nine. The classroom intervention in each grade is eight weekly, 50-minute lessons,
and is conducted with approximately 25-35 students per class. The booster intervention, which uses direct mail
(newsletters) and telephone calls, reaches each participant individually and delivers a tobacco use prevention
message some what tailored to that participant's needs.
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