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Email communication through February, 2018
Link to American Cancer Society's Preemption Petition: https://www.acscan.org/actions/why-not-tennessee
Agenda items:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Conference
- Dissemination and Implementation – conferences where research findings and evidence-based information and tools are summarized, communicated and used by organizations and individuals that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services. AHRQ is especially interested in supporting conferences
This Program is intended to complement and promote AHRQ's core research, dissemination, and implementation activities by providing a mechanism for Agency stakeholders and others to:
- Develop health services research agendas and identify strategies and mechanisms for studying them;
- Discuss and develop consensus around health services research methodological and technical issues;?
- Disseminate and implement health services research information and tools for formulating or evaluating health policy, and for managing health care programs;?
- SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing
- Baby & Me
- Improve quality and effectiveness of health care or purchasing health services; and?
- Develop partnerships with stakeholder organizations and build their capacity to participate in research activities and use the results of health services research.
Name ideas:
- Tobacco Control Working Group in Northeast Tennessee
From Terry Henson:
We have Healthier TN Communities groups in all seven counties in the Northeast Region. The counties are also beginning to form youth tobacco councils. Here’s what we have so far…
- Carter: Has one active tobacco youth council (about 20 youth) that also focuses on substance abuse as they partner heavily with the anti-drug coalition.
- Greene: Not necessarily a tobacco youth council group here, BUT, they do have a TN Strong group of 8 from Chuckey Doak High School that are focused on tobacco. So far, they've held a few meetings with them, a couple of the high-schoolers went to the TN Strong Conference, and they also held Great American Smoke Out event at CDHS. These students will be trained in T4 after the new year.
- Hancock: Hancock has a teen health council that focuses in part on tobacco and will be training a group for T4 soon.
- Johnson: The A.C.T.I.O.N. Coalition sponsors the SADD Club (high school students against destructive decisions). A.C.T.I.O.N. is a grant funded coalition with their primary focus on substance use. The SADD club primarily focuses on substance use but also includes tobacco.
- Hawkins: Currently does not have a youth tobacco council but is hoping to get students trained in T4 to help support TN Strong efforts.
- Unicoi: Has one TATU Program of 22 students from the Unicoi County High School Senior National Honor Society program, and one TNSTRONG Program of 20 students from Unicoi Middle consisting of 8th Grade students
- Washington: No specific youth tobacco council, but some informal tobacco work is being conducted with the HOSA classes at a few of the local high schools.
1. ALA Freedom from Smoking: While it is an excellent EB program it is generally required to be very specifically implemented in the formats that they offer (in person, online, self help guide). This includes the official train-the-trainer program that they offer. As the ALA program is trademarked, we’re not sure of the possibility of shortening their 7-week program into a four week version. There are many tobacco cessation programs out there that could fall within the 4 week aspiration that are not copy written. If you wanted to work with ALA and were able to develop a program with ALA and evaluate it, FFS is included in quite a few of the TUPCP work plans related to multi-unit housing activities and others. Again, there are others out there that could be more easily molded into what you may be trying to accomplish and/or you could develop and evaluate your own. Important to note that CDC does not consider FFS or other cessation classes to be recommended evidence-based strategies due to historically low attendance and high drop-out rates, so federal funding would not be able to be used for these activities. We can, however, use state funds as approved by
2. SBIRT: There is currently an SBIRT TN that supervises the SBIRT implementation at pilot sites and is housed in Mental Health and Substance Abuse. You could also look at implementing the 5As/5Rs. Also, the TDH clinics are transitioning to the use of S2BI (screening to brief intervention) and have developed a training power point that I have attached for your reference.
3. Moving tobacco related bills from Ag to Health: the decision to route to Ag is made by the clerk’s office (based off code and caption), sometimes in conjunction with the Speaker or Lt. Governor’s office. If you would like more information about the legislative nuances, you are welcome to contact Lacey Blair with our legislative office. I’ve copied her on this email, as well.
4. Quitline evaluation: I’m told that there had been an RFP released for this sometime ago, but was then pulled due to federal funding cuts. There is no current plan to outsource an evaluation.
We would certainly love to partner with you in any way possible—come to speak at your local coalition meetings, involve you in the newly rejuvenated statewide coalition, have you involved in recruiting youth to the TNSTRONG summer event, or in any other way you would see us working together towards this important goal! Please don’t hesitate to contact me at any time if you have other questions about the state’s tobacco control initiatives.
Warm regards,
Shelley Fiscus
Michelle D. Fiscus, MD FAAP
Deputy Medical Director for Injury Prevention, Chronic Disease Prevention, and Health Promotion
Division of Family Health and Wellness
Office: 615-532-6944
Cell: 615-829-4093
S2BI training ppt.pptxS2BI.pdfMore updates,
I heard back from Genica Jones from ALA FFS, and she said they had a self-help book that they were using now for one-on-one sessions with patients or people wanting to quit who can’t really do a 8-session program. She said she would send me one, and that we can order them if you like them for $5.99.
This might be a good option for folks… and it will be interesting to see how it might fit with SBIRT.
MA
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