New American Lung Resource Collection: Technical Assistance Resource for Tobacco Program Staff.

The Health Systems Change Technical Assistance team is excited to share a new technical assistance resources for tobacco control program staff. These resources, funded by a CDC cooperative agreement, to provide assistance to further tobacco treatment integration via health systems change efforts. Below is more information and a flyer is attached that outlines the new resource. Please feel free to share the flyer with community partners!

• On-Demand Webcast: http://bit.ly/RoadmapBHWebcast
• Lead by American Lung Association’s National Manager, Tobacco Programs Rebecca Padilla and features guest speakers Chad Morris, PhD and the National Behavioral Health Network director Taslim Van Hattum
• A quick reference guide
• Lung.org/CessationTA/BHroadmap
• A comprehensive digital toolkit and resource collection
• Lung.org/CessationTA/BH
• An online, on-demand Organization Integration Assessment tool
• Quick and easy-to-use, shareable to community partners
• Auto-scores the level of tobacco treatment integration within the site/organization/system
• Creates a brief report summary of integration level with a referral to specific sections of the Behavioral Health Toolkit, to offer resources to improve scores
• A glossary of key concepts and terms in behavioral health, to empower tobacco control program staff with a deeper understanding of the behavioral health system structure. Available at: Lung.org/CessationTA/BHglossary