TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events October – December 2011 Title of Event: TPCP Workshop: Promoting and Sustaining Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs Date of Event: October 24, 2011 | 8:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Registration from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m.) Location of Event: Arkansas Department of Health Auditorium 4815 W. Markham Street Little Rock, AR [...]
TPCP is pleased to introduce its new Cessation Section Chief, Brenda Howard, MS, CADC, CCS. Brenda joins us from the UAMS- Department of Psychiatry Severe Barriers Project where she worked as a Project Specialist. For the past seven years she has worked with TEA recipients identified with barriers to employment in the areas of mental [...]
The Arkansas Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program has developed an outreach program to work with health care providers serving populations with disproportionally high smoking/tobacco use prevalence to help them quit tobacco successfully. The Systems Training Outreach Program (STOP) will use regionally based specialists to provide education and support to providers in increasing [...]
TPCP has received a $91,000 grant award that will be used to expand the focus of tobacco cessation among the mental health population. TPCP will partner with the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health, and the Mental Health Council of Arkansas in this project. It is estimated that persons with mental illness [...]
On September 10, the Northwest Arkansas Tobacco-Free Coalition hosted a Press Conference on the front steps of the Fayetteville Town Square. They received a great deal of community support in response to the youth’s activities and their word-of-mouth/social media campaign leading up to the event. On the day of the conference, 16 high school students [...]
