What we're trying to do here is just to have people who smoke recognize themselves in these ads and think about the more short-term, day-to-day effects of smoking.

What we're looking at, if the funds were lost, is a huge loss in these programs and also a loss in cost-effectiveness to the state. This would mean a big change for us.

That might just be the little extra impetus they need to seek help and quit smoking.

We are trying to add another infant/toddler teacher to our staff (at Family Building Blocks). The added revenue that we can gain (from the project) will help accomplish that goal.

It's frustrating we aren't finding that supporting youth is a high priority for some people around here anymore.

This is extremely disappointing, because many people have worked very hard to help us find solutions so we didn't have to shut down. Now, we'll just have to come up with creative programming that is not confined to walls.