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We are the Prevention and Training Branch, under the Division of Clinical Services, Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center. We provide training, technical assistance and educational opportunities for program managers, community leaders, and youth and adult volunteers on enhancing mental health and preventing and reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and their related problems.
 
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Our mission is to enhance positive mental health, as well as physical, emotional and spiritual wellness among children, youth and families by preventing mental dysfunction and substance abuse.

 
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We envision an island community empowered and committed to making healthy choices --- "Totally healthy, totally tobacco/alcohol and drug-free!"


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REVIEW THE LATEST SYNAR REPORT

The FY 2024 Annual Synar Report is ready for community review and feedback. To provide your comments, contact Hanna De Fiesta at [email protected], or the PEACE office at (671) 477-9079 thru 9083

FFY2025 Annual Synar Report

 

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What is SYNAR?
 

In July 1992, Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act (P.L. 102-321), which includes an amendment (section 1926) aimed at decreasing youth access to tobacco. This amendment, named for its sponsor, Congressman Mike Synar of Oklahoma, requires States and Territories to enact and enforce laws prohibiting the sale and distribution of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 18.
 

Guam’s Tobacco Control Act of 1998 prohibits the sales or distribution of tobacco products to minors.
 

In addition, tobacco vendors must obtain a separate tobacco retail license for each premise or vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. The Act also established the Youth Tobacco Education and Prevention Fund (YTEPF) for use by the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center for youth compliance monitoring and tobacco and drug prevention and education programs.
 

Every year, the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and the Department of revenue and Taxation, together with various partners, conduct unannounced inspections of all tobacco vendors on Guam, to check their compliance with the law.

Guam’s compliance rate is higher than the standards set by the Federal Government.

 

Inspection Year

FFY Report Year

Compliance Rate (must be at least 80%)

2014

FFY2015

96%

2015

FFY2016

95.6%

2016

FFY2017

95.3%

2017

FFY2018

95.2%

2018

FFY2019

87.9%

*2019

FFY2020

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2020

FFY2021

N/A (Inspections not conducted during COVID-19 pandemic)

2021

FFY2022

88.1%

2022

FFY2023

97%

2023

FFY2024

94.8%

2024

FFY2025

94.4%
*2019 RVR unavailable due to discrepancies in data



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Prohibiting the sales to minors is NOT ENOUGH to reduce tobacco use among young people.
We need to focus our efforts also on interventions to reduce the DEMAND for tobacco. And we need to emphasize that regardless of age, tobacco kills.




 
 
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