Basics of Tobacco Control (BOTC) – Pathway to Change

Basics of Tobacco Control (BOTC) - Pathway to Change is a comprehensive tobacco control resource that includes information, strategies, and tools to help individuals and local, state, and national organizations with their tobacco control efforts. It can be used to provide new hires with a comprehensive orientation to the tobacco control issue as well as by seasoned professionals who need a quick, easy way to access the latest tobacco control resources, websites, and information. Click here to view this online resource.

Buck Tobacco Tip Sheets
This series of Tip Sheets reflects best practices to restrict tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. The “best practices” are the results of the Buck Tobacco Sponsorship campaign, a project of the Public Health Trust. The Tip Sheets were written in collaboration with local, state and national-level tobacco control advocates knowledgeable about rodeo sponsorship, and were funded by the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC).

The Tip Sheets are designed to support the work of advocates around the country who want to address tobacco sponsorship at their local rodeos, and they are organized around action ideas based on Buck Tobacco's successes and lessons learned. Included are fact sheets, resource lists, and action ideas for planning and implementing a local project to restrict tobacco sponsorship of rodeos.

Further information about how to address tobacco sponsorship of rodeos is available on the Buck Tobacco Sponsorship website at www.bucktobacco.org.

College Tobacco Prevention Resource
The College Tobacco Prevention Resource (CTPR) is a website that provides practical information, ideas, and guidance to college leaders involved with tobacco prevention. The site describes a comprehensive approach to prevention that combines traditional education and cessation programs with efforts to create a physical, social, and policy environment that supports tobacco-free campuses. The site contains facts about college tobacco use, strategies for comprehensive college tobacco prevention, recommended steps for taking action on your campus, case studies, glossary and links, and frequently asked questions.

Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Cessation Leadership Project
The Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Cessation Leadership Project is an ongoing project designed to assist tobacco control programs to expand tobacco cessation services in their states. The website provides a list of participants, project sponsors, meeting agendas, and presentations from the 2005 meeting. It also provides a valuable resource list of links to important cessation topics.

Developing Smokefree Implementation Regulations Website
Developing Smokefree Implementation Regulations (DSIR) is a web-based toolkit developed by the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC), and funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rapid Response Grant administered by the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation. DSIR was developed to help health departments and others in the public health community draft and adopt regulations to implement smokefree laws. The Developing Smokefree Implementation Regulations includes examples of effective state and local implementation language, model implementation and enforcement rules, an introduction to public health rulemaking, and an overview of smokefree policy for lawyers.

Health Policy Guide
In an effort to provide community-based organizations and state health departments with a resource detailing policies to prevent tobacco use, TTAC partnered with the Center for Health Improvement to develop “profiles” of policies that have proven to be effective in communities throughout the country. Each profile includes background information on the problem to be addressed, a description of the policy or policies, data describing the effectiveness of the policy, and resources and references designed to assist the user in replicating the policy.

Learning Center
The Learning Center provides six modules to help build advocacy skills among individuals working in the field of tobacco prevention and control.  The modules present strategies that promote positive changes in communities by providing information and resources on how to: build coalitions, advocate for policy change and media campaigns, master the basics of tobacco control, plan and evaluate advocacy efforts, and eliminate tobacco-related disparities. The Learning Center is a valuable resource for new advocates to tobacco control and for those who would like to review the skills necessary for promoting change within communities.

LGBT Populations and Tobacco 2nd edition
LGBT Populations and Tobacco 2nd edition is designed to educate tobacco control professionals who want to expand their knowledge of LGBT populations, provide strategies for incorporating LGBT populations into overall tobacco control efforts, inform LGBT audiences wanting to know more about the dangers of tobacco use and how the tobacco industry targets them, and provide information to help tobacco control professionals and LGBT health organizations build capacity for LGBT tobacco control interventions.

National LGBT Communities Tobacco Action Plan
The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium is pleased to announce the release of the National LGBT Communities Tobacco Action Plan. Over 60 LGBT health and tobacco control advocates participated in the planning process, which yielded five key action steps for reducing smoking among the LGBT community.
 
The action plan details the planning process, a history of the LGBT Tobacco Control efforts and the status of existing efforts. It also presents actions items and suggested strategies for implementation.
 
TTAC is proud to support the LGBT Action Plan. We are grateful to all of you who contributed countless hours to this project, through serving on the Steering Committee, participating in the Working Meeting, and/or providing feedback on the Action Plan drafts. This project would not have been possible without your dedication and hard work.

Power of Proof: An Evaluation Primer
The Power of Proof is an on-line resource that provides background information about evaluation as well as information on evaluation planning, writing evaluation objectives, collecting data, stages of evaluation, interpreting evaluation data, and reporting results. Designed for use by program personnel, rather than evaluation professionals, it can be used to guide program development and goal-setting, as well as evaluation. The Power of Proof also provides links to other valuable evaluation resources on-line.

Reaching Higher Ground: A Guide For Preventing, Preparing For, And Transforming Conflict For Tobacco Control Coalitions
Well-intentioned tobacco control advocates often find themselves struggling with difficult and contentious issues. Too often our efforts to work in coalitions and partnerships seem like a waste of time, or worse, become destructive and painful.

It doesn't have to be this way. This Guide provides practical advice for ways of working in coalitions and partnerships that resolve real problems while strengthening relationships. The tools and strategies described in this book can make any collaborative undertaking more successful by approaching problems and people in ways that impart dignity and respect. It is possible to grow in community, through conflict, by engaging one another in ways that reach not only common ground, but higher ground. Click here to view this online resource.

Tobacco 101 Version 3 Training Kit: A comprehensive guide to training public health practitioners on the basics of tobacco control

The Tobacco 101 Version 3 Training Kit provides all the materials needed to conduct a two-day training for public health practitioners who want the information and tools necessary to understand tobacco control programs and the strategies used to reduce tobacco use and related disease. Click here to see these materials or to download them, including PowerPoint Presentations, Presenter’s Script, Presenter’s Guidebook, Essential Resources Guide, fact sheets and activity work sheets.

Using Best Practices: Practical Lessons in Building and Sustaining Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health released the updated Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs in October 2007.  The document describes an integrated program structure for implementing interventions proven to be effective and provides the recommended level of state investment to effectively reduce tobacco use. To further assist states in understanding how to develop and implement effective comprehensive tobacco control programs, CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health developed the course “Using Best Practices – Practical Lessons in Building and Sustaining Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs at the State and Local Level.” This course, first delivered at the Summer Institute 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, is the basis for this multimedia production that can be accessed by clicking here.