Break Free Alliance’s Summer Webinar Series – Addressing Tobacco Use In Correctional Facilities
Monday, May 9, 2011
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Break Free Alliance will be hosting
its own four-part summer webinar series to discuss and encourage dialogue among
partners working to address tobacco use among correctional and post-correctional
populations.
The latest information on how to
implement tobacco cessation programming and comprehensive tobacco control
policies in correctional facilities will be shared, as well as linking newly
released inmates with community-based cessation
resources.
Background
Information
Tobacco use prevalence is
particularly high among those in correctional facilities. Smoking rates among
the incarcerated have been estimated to be as high as 70% - well above the 20%
rate for all U.S. adults. In 2003, Break Free Alliance formed a partnership with
the National Commission on Correctional Health Care to develop a tobacco
cessation curriculum for correctional populations and has been working closely
with correctional health care partners and others on tobacco-related issues in
the correctional setting ever since.
The purpose of the 2011 Summer
Webinar Series is to expand on our most recent publication, "Recommendations
for Addressing Tobacco Use in Correctional Facilities through Policy and
Cessation Programming,” by promoting continued discussion of the briefing
paper’s recommendations and encouraging dialogue among partners working to
address tobacco use among correctional and post-correctional
populations.
Webinar
Schedule
Through a series of four webinars,
participants from state tobacco control programs and correctional systems will
have the opportunity to participate in the following
webinars:
Webinar 1 - July 12th |
11:00am-12:30pm PST
Making the Case for Tobacco Control
Policy and Cessation Programming in
Correctional
Settings
Webinar 2—July 26th |
11:00am-12:30pm PST
Strategies
for implementing and strengthening comprehensive clean indoor and outdoor air
policies
Webinar 3—August 16th |
11:00am-12:30pm PST
Approaches
to Implementing Tobacco Cessation Services in Correctional
Systems
Webinar 4—August 30th |
11:00am-12:30pm PST
Linking
Newly-Released Inmates with Community-Based Cessation
Resources
Who Should
Attend?
-State tobacco control
staff-Correctional facility staff (medical
& administrative) within prisons, jails and community corrections facilities -Policy
makers -Community centers/Community based
organizations that assist newly released inmates with community resources and
services -Others interested in tobacco use in
correctional institutions REGISTER
HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2011
SUMMER WEBINAR SERIES,
PLEASE
CONTACT:KRISTI
MARYMAN, Break Free Alliance Program
Coordinator 916-556-3344 kmaryman@healthedcouncil.org
Source: Break Free Alliance
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