Projects You Can Replicate Locally: CINCO DE MAYO

 

Download the Cinco de Mayo Action Kit!
Building Partnerships for Healthy Communities
through Cinco de Mayo
September 2002

This action kit captures the experience of the four Friday Night Live counties that participated in the pilot project as members of the Cinco de Mayo con Orgullo statewide campaign. The four counties were: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, and Ventura. Their experiences have been summarized in four case studies which detail the scope of work in each respective county, and the lessons gained from the challenges and successes they faced. Following the case studies is an Appendix section, which contains useful and practical tools the pilot counties used to achieve their objectives. Since this action kit is also available on a CD-ROM, you may copy the document to your computer’s hard disk and modify the tools to be specific with your county information or project needs. Please remember to attribute the sources if you use the tools.

We invite you to use this action kit to develop a similar project in your community, whether the focus be Cinco de Mayo, or another holiday or event. The lessons and tools in this action kit can be applied to other environmental prevention efforts in your local community. We anticipate that this document will prove useful as you engage youth and adult partners in reclaiming different holidays and events in your community from the tobacco and alcohol industries.