Thank you NAQC members!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Thank you
to every organization and individual who renewed their NAQC membership or joined
as a new member in Fiscal Year 2012!
Revenues from membership dues allow
us to address important
new legislative and policy changes and be more flexible as an organization in
meeting member needs and requests. We hope NAQC’s work in
the past year has contributed to your success and we look forward to launching
great new products and membership benefits this year!
Below is a
review of important products and resources that we launched in the past year,
including a member directory that is exclusively available to NAQC members, as
well as new initiatives we will be working on in the coming
months.
Highlights -
NAQC Products &
Resources
Member
Directory
Please visit the membership
directory page to access the online directory -www.naquitline.org/directory.
Note: Please make sure to keep your
membership information current. You can update your information by signing into
your NAQC membership profile. Contact
Natalia
Gromov, Administrator, (800-398-5489 ext 701 or membership@naquitline.org)
with any questions or for assistance with making member profile
updates.
Tobacco Warning Label
Resources
In 2011, both Canada and the U.S. have moved
forward with regulatory processes to enhance their tobacco health warnings in a
variety of ways, including increased size of the warning, updated graphic
images, and stronger messages. In the coming months NAQC will be sharing new
resources and providing technical assistance to prepare state and provincial
quitlines for the new warning labels. The resources will include a webinar to
share lessons learned by Australia and New Zealand regarding the impact of
warnings on quitlines, and a report titled, Implementing Tobacco Warning Labels in North America:
A Plan for Ensuring Adequate Access to Quitlines, that
will outline critical strategic issues that need to be adequately addresses
prior to the new label launch. Please visit the Tobacco
Warning Labels page for more
information.
Medicaid
Coverage
On June 24, 2011 the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a series of changes to their
coverage for tobacco cessation services and identified ways states can elect to
expand coverage.NAQC has launched a Medicaid Learning Community to support shared-learning and
dissemination of proven-practices related to effective implementation of the new
guideline allowing quitlines as an allowable
administrative cost expenditure as well as a number of technical assistance and
webinar resources. For more information, please visit the Medicaid
Coverage page.
Public-Private
Partnerships
Developing partnerships with both
the private and public health plan sector can help maximize quitline services
and establish a level of sustainability. NAQC’s work will focus on 1) establishing a strong foundation
of common knowledge among states, provinces and coalitions on how to advance
tobacco coverage among public and private insurers, and 2) providing more
intensive technical assistance to a small number of
states. A series of webinars and technical assistance
materials will be available in the coming months. For more information, please
contact DebOsborne at dosborne@naquitline.org.
Annual Quitline
Survey
Thank you to everyone who
participated in the 2010 annual survey as well as the 2010-2011 budget survey.
In order to decrease the staff burden on states and provinces, NAQC will be
fielding a shorter version of the survey in early 2012. Please find important
FY10 survey findings and benchmarking data below:
US
Benchmarking 2010
Canadian
Benchmarking 2010
Findings from the 2010
Annual Quitline Survey
Other
Resources
Thank
you again for your membership! If you have any questions about your membership
please contact us at membership@naquitline.org or
800-398-5489 ext 707.
We look forward to another year of moving
quitlines forward!
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