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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
 
-John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
 

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   Welcome

No matter what our responsibilities, everyone working in tobacco control is called upon to be a leader. We face daily challenges in an ever-changing environment, and need to stay in-sync with the movement, while reaching out to find new ways to improve the public’s health. Each day we have the opportunity to cultivate and nurture a movement that will continue to lead tobacco control to further success and greatness.
 
Effective leadership is dynamic—both as a topic and a movement. And in this issue of ttac exchange, we explore just what it means to be a leader in the tobacco wars by looking at two programs designed to improve and expand tobacco control leadership through learning: The Advocacy Institute’s Leadership Fellow Program; and ttac’s Communities of Excellence Plus (CXP). These two unique approaches to leadership represent opportunities to build and strengthen future generations of tobacco control advocates.
 
We’re glad to share these leadership philosophies with you, and if nothing else, we hope you’ll remember that leadership is not the responsibility of a few but anobligation for the many. Don’t give the leadership away – grab it and make it your own.
 
Dearell Niemeyer, MPH
Director, Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
   This month in exchange. . .
Just out this month!
 
• New Surgeon General's Report Expands List of Diseases Caused by Smoking
   
• ttac’s College Tobacco Prevention Resource Web site – Updates
   
• Tobacco Prevention and Control Peer Exchange Network: Smokeless Locals List Serve-Now Active
   
• CDC reports big decline in high school smoking in latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings
   
• ALA releases Compendium of State Tobacco Control Laws
   
• Covering Tobacco Cessation Services Under Medicaid: A Toolkit
   
• There Is No Constitutional Right to Smoke
   
• ANR Fact Sheet on Ventilation
   
• New Web site for Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network
   
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium – Legal Update bulletin
   
ttac exchange staff
Aliki P. Weakland, MPH, MSW
   Editor
 
Alison Sipler, MPH, CHES
   Managing Editor
 
Perry Stevens, MPA
   Contributing Writer
 
Carrie Sullivan, MPH
   Contributing Writer
 
Samantha Helfert, MLS
   Information Specialist
 
JoAnn Weiss, MA, MPH
   Writer/Researcher
 
Lisbeth Klau, MPH
   Writer/Researcher
 
• Leadership in tobacco control
Find out what it means to be a leader in the tobacco control movement.
   
• Unique approaches to strengthening the tobacco control leadership foundation
Check out two programs designed to build leadership capacity among state and local-level advocates—Tobacco Control Leadership Fellows Program and Communities of Excellence Plus
   
• Up close and personal
ttac visited with Nebraska and Indiana participants for a closer look at the skills and tools they gained from the Tobacco Control Leadership Fellows Program.
   
• Bringing it all together –
Hawaii shares some of the leadership tools they came away with from the Communities of Excellence Plus—Academy of Excellence.
 
Resources and links
 
Scroll through our extensive listing of materials to help you hone your leadership skills.
 
Get the facts from ttac!
 
   • Leadership Taxonomy
   • The Nine Key Questions
 
Coming soon . . .
• Alliance for Justice Announces Worry-Free Advocacy Workshop for Nonprofits
   
• SOPHE Tobacco Supplement
   
• Voices of Ruth
 
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