What is Oregon Healthy Teens?

Welcome to the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) Oregon Healthy Teens website.

Oregon Healthy Teens (OHT) began in 2000 as Oregon’s effort to learn about and improve the health and well-being of young people across the state. Initially, OHT represented collaboration among Oregon Research Institute, the Oregon Departments of Education and Health & Human Services, and the Oregon Commission on Children & Families. These groups became partners with the goal of learning the best ways to protect Oregon youth from the risks they face as they move from adolescence into adulthood.

In the spring of 2004, the National Cancer Institute awarded an additional five-year grant to Oregon Research Institute (ORI) to continue its investigation into the factors influencing the health of Oregon youth. This funding will allow us to work with 36 communities throughout Oregon, selected from schools that had participated in the previous three years of the OHT survey. In the school year of 2004-05, we will begin an additional four years of surveying 8th and 11th grade students in high schools and middle schools in those 36 communities. Additionally, we will randomly assign half of those communities to receive a tobacco-use prevention intervention.

The State of Oregon is continuing to conduct the OHT survey in a random sample of approximately one-third of all high schools and middle or junior high schools across the state.

If you represent a school interested in the state-run OHT survey, contact:

Joyce Grant-Worley
Manager, Health Statistics Unit
Center for Health Statistics
Office of Disease Prevention & Epidemiology Health Services
Oregon Department of Human Services
800 NE Oregon St, Suite 225
Portland Oregon 97232
Voice: 503-731-4449
Fax: 503-731-3076
Email: joyce.a.grant-worley@state.or.us
Web: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/

To view a copy of OHT questionnaires, visit our Questionnaires page.

For more information about tobacco research at Oregon Research Institute, visit our Research page on this site.

Prevention Resources

• Tobacco

Action on Smoking and Health
American Cancer Society (search on Tobacco)
American Lung Association
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Oregon Health Department - Tobacco Prevention and Education
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Tobacco-Free Kids
CDC - Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Tobacco News and Information
Zapbac

• General

National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Substance Abuse Web Index
Healthy Kids Learn Better
Oregon School Board Association
Western Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies

This page was last updated December 17, 2004

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