Evergreen Baptist Church Tobacco Awareness Program Launches Park Signs Project

The Evergreen Baptist Church Tobacco Awareness Program (EBCTAP) is a tobacco intervention program based in El Dorado, Arkansas. Our efforts include health promotional campaigns to address disparities, as well as cessation strategies that reduce tobacco use among youth and adults.  The activities of EBCTAP are geared towards:  Communicating to young people and adults that tobacco products are exceptionally hazardous and highly addictive and building public perceptions that it is unacceptable to contribute in any way to addicting people to tobacco.

The recent park signs project is the end-result of a long journey of EBCTAP’s efforts, including community surveys and events, tobacco litter park collection clean-ups, press releases, letters-to-the-editors, city-council challenges, etc.  The development of the signs are near completion, as the city workers were assigned to place signs in all of El Dorado’s city parks by Mayor Mike Dumas.  Eddie and Carolyn Yarbrough, Tobacco Director and Coordinator of EBCTAP, would also like to thank Pride Youth Program of El Dorado who were active in success of this project.