Key Programs and Actors in the Haverstraw, NY, Tobacco Product Display Ban Experience

Program /Actor	Role
New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program	Funder of 16 youth action programs and 29 community partnerships across New York State.
POW’R Against Tobacco of Rockland County	One of 29 community partnership programs funded by the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program whose goal is to implement strategies and programs that will decrease the social acceptability of tobacco use. The coalition is made up of organizations and private citizens in Rockland County.
Reality Check Rockland	One of the 16 New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program–funded youth action programs in New York State, operating in Rockland County. Middle- and high-school–aged youths work through school-based clubs to change community policies, norms, and attitudes about tobacco.
Haverstraw Collaborative	Cofounded by the Department of Youth and Family Services and the Rockland County Office of Community Resources, it is open to all community organizations that provide services to the residents of Haverstraw. The Haverstraw Collaborative’s mission is “to unite our efforts and resources for the health, safety, and well being of the children, youth elders, adults and families of Haverstraw, and to raise the quality of life of all people in our diverse community.”17
Haverstraw governance	The village is governed by a mayor and board of trustees who have the authority to create laws in the village of Haverstraw code.
New York Convenience Store Association, Lorillard Tobacco Company, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA Inc, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, American Snuff Company LLC, US Smokeless Tobacco Brands Inc, and John Middleton Company	Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the village of Haverstraw