Smoke-free Public Housing: Helping Smokers Quit – Online Resources.

The American Cancer Society, North American Quitline Consortium, and Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UCSF worked with community health centers (CHCs), public housing agencies (PHAs), and state health departments/quitlines in 6 communities to offer cessation services to residents who use tobacco.  The programs were located in California, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. This project was generously funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and sought to improve inter-sector coordination for tobacco cessation services for residents of public housing. The project kicked off in early 2019 and continued through spring 2020.
 
Over the course of this project, the CHCs, PHAs, and quitlines worked both internally and together to better coordinate resources and processes for residents of public housing to access tobacco cessation services. Both systems change and quality improvement with organizational protocols contributed to our lessons learned.

Final Project Resources
Case Studies:Louisville, KY; San Francisco, CA; Florence, SC
Best Practices/FAQs for CHCs, PHAs, quitlines, and individuals
Smoke-free Public Housing: Helping Residents Quit Tobacco, webinar hosted by SCLC, ACS, and NAQC
View instructive and case presentations for each ECHO session as expert faculty and project participants create and share best practices to help patients and make cessation-related systems more efficient.

For NAQC-developed project resources please click here.