You Work as a Dental Hygienist in a School-Based Health

You work as a dental hygienist in a school-based health center in a public high school (grades 9 through 12) . The health clinic is staffed by you, a dental assistant, a dentist, a nurse practitioner, a health educator, a school nurse, a social worker, a mental health counselor, a nutritionist, and a sports medicine specialist. In addition to having the health clinic available, students are required to take a health class for 4 weeks in ninth grade. In the last few months, parents and teachers have reported increased use of smokeless tobacco, cigarettes, and e-cigarettes by students outside the school grounds. The principal has asked the health center team to address the problem of increased use of tobacco products.
-Which of the following strategies would be the least effective choice to ensure sustainability of program outcomes?

A) Add a health unit to a class in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades to reinforce learning and continually promote change of the health behavior
B) Reach out to a counseling graduate program at a local university to establish a student internship program for their students to provide tobacco cessation counseling
C) Create a blog for students to share their successes and failures to provide social support
D) Use a standardized tobacco use education program from a reliable professional or government website to ensure validity of the information and educational strategies