CHOICES (Consumers Helping Others Improve their Condition by Ending Smoking)
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Format Program
CHOICES, a consumer-driven program for smokers with mental illness in New Jersey, strives to increase awareness of the importance of addressing tobacco use and creating a strong peer support network; CHOICES encourages mental health consumers to make a positive healthy lifestyle change by addressing smoking and tobacco use. Consumer Tobacco Advocates, who are mental health consumers, discuss with smokers with mental illness the importance of addressing tobacco and motivate them to seek treatment. The Consumer Tobacco Advocates inform their peers of the consequences of smoking, issues on smoking and mental illness, and options available to make quitting easier. They visit mental health centers, self-help centers and health fairs to talk to consumers about their smoking and to provide resources about places in New Jersey where smokers with mental illness can receive tobacco dependence treatment.
Contact URL http://njchoices.org/
Contact Agency
CHOICES
317 George Street, Suite 105
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 235-8232
In SHAPE Program
Monadnock Family Services
Format Health promotion program
In SHAPE, a health promotion program for people with mental illness, strives to improve physical health and quality of life, reduce the risk of preventable diseases, and lengthen the life expectancy of individuals with severe mental illnesses. In SHAPE participants works with trained health mentors to create a Self Health Action Plan for Empowerment (SHAPE) that includes physical activity, healthy eating goals, and attention to medical needs, including smoking cessation when needed. Mentors help participants implement their SHAPE plans by encouraging participation in a variety of activities already existing in the community and attending the activities with participants until they feel comfortable going alone. Every 12 weeks, participants attend a celebration, where verbal recognition and incentive items are provided for their efforts. In February 2009, two mental health centers, The Providence Center in Providence, RI and the Genesee County Community Mental Health Center in Flint, MI, worked with Monadnock Family Services in a year-long training process to become certified In SHAPE providers.
Contact URL http://www.inshapeprograms.com/ http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/063029.htm#AftertheGrant
Contact Name Peter Sebert
Contact Agency
Monadnock Family Services
17 93rd Street
Keene, NH 03431
(603) 283-1675
Ohio Tobacco and Recovery (TR) Project
Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare
Format Project
The TR Project is a technical assistance program that helps service systems, organizations, and direct-service providers implement the TR model. TR is a stages-of-change model that helps people with severe mental disorders and substance use disorders as well as service providers reduce and eliminate the use of harmful tobacco products. The model is implemented at community-based behavioral healthcare organizations, including those providing mental health and addiction services. Some core components of the model are also being implemented at select consumer-operated services; with continuing evaluation over time, the project partners intend to create a best practice for tobacco recovery.
Contact URL ohiotobaccorecovery.case.edu/
Contact Agency
Ohio Tobacco and Recovery (TR) Project
c/o Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare
1708 Southpoint Drive, 2 Left
Cleveland, OH 44109-1911
(216) 398-3933
Peer-to-Peer Tobacco Program: Services for Behavioral Health Consumers
University of Colorado Denver, Behavioral Health and Wellness Program
Format Program
This peer-to-peer tobacco program provides training and ongoing supervision to mental health peer counselors, called Consumer Tobacco Advocates (CTAs), who address tobacco among their peers by providing tobacco cessation education, brief motivational interventions, and advocacy for tobacco dependence treatment.
Contact URL http://www.bhwellness.org/?page_id=102
Contact Name
Mandy Graves May, MPH
Contact
Director of Training and Outreach
Contact Agency
University of Colorado Denver
Behavioral Health and Wellness Program
1784 Racine Street, Building 401
Campus Box F478
Aurora, CO 80045
(303) 724-3713
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) of the University of California
SCLC is a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and receives support by the American Legacy Foundation
Format Program
SCLC aims to raise smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit by creating partnerships with a variety of groups and institutions, including psychiatric settings, to develop and implement action plans around smoking cessation. Partnerships with dental hygienists, nurses, pharmacists, emergency physicians, hospitals, labor unions, family physicians, the Veterans Health Administration and other groups all strive to save lives by increasing cessation rates and cessation interventions.
Contact URL http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/Pioneers.htm
Contact Agency
University of California
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
3333 California Street, Suite 430
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 502-8880
Smoking Cessation and Wellness Project
Clubhouse of Suffolk
Format Non-profit provider of psychiatric rehabilitation services
Clubhouse of Suffolk has developed a comprehensive model, the Healthy Body Healthy Mind model, to address the biological, psychological and social aspects of tobacco dependence in people with serious mental illness; this model concludes that individuals with mental illness respond to tailored interventions which address their specific needs and, as a result, they are able to quit smoking. The components of Clubhouse’s Smoking Cessation and Wellness Project are education, support, Nicotine Replacement Therapies, and wellness services which address changes to achieving a healthy lifestyle. The Project also has produced a video called “Smoke Alarm,” which discusses the impact of smoking on the lives of people with psychiatric disabilities and features Clubhouse members who have reduced or quit smoking.
Contact URL http://www.clubhouseofsuffolk.org/
Contact Agency
Clubhouse of Suffolk
939 Johnson Avenue
P.O. Box 373
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
(631) 471-7242
Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP): Mental Health, AODA and Tobacco Dependence
Administered by the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and
Intervention and funded by Wisconsin Division of Public Health Tobacco Prevention and Control
Format Project
WiNTiP is a three year planning project that will produce a plan by December 31, 2010 for implementing the integration of evidence-based nicotine dependence treatment into Wisconsin’s Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) Program and mental health programs and services. WiNTiP brings together tobacco, mental health, AODA and government officials to determine how best to address tobacco dependence treatment.
Contact URL http://web.mac.com/creativerep/WiNTiP_Site_1/WiNTiP_Home.html
Contact Agency
University of Wisconsin
CTRI Main Office
1930 Monroe, Suite 200
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 262-8673
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