Living Independent From Tobacco

Living Independent From Tobacco: A guide to help people with disabilities live a tobacco-free lifestyle

Posted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,

WHAT: The University of Cincinnati University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UC UCEDD) is interested in receiving a Train the Trainer session from the University of Florida Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health on an Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Curriculum for people with disabilities. There would not be any cost to receive the training.

When/ How: Jamie Pomeranz, Ph.D and his colleagues will provide the training in 2 parts: (2hrs) Provide education about tobacco/tobacco cessation; (2 hrs) Specific training on the curriculum and thinking about connecting it to PwD.

Who: *** This is to be determined. At least initially we would like to keep the number small (<10) for the calls with Dr. Pomeranz. However, deciding to involve professionals regionally or statewide is yet to be done. It depends on who is available and who are the best people to reach out to. **We are trying to identify

HOW: The Disability Organizations would provide the training to individuals with disabilities and be responsible for tracking data associated with the training. The "Unknown" TBD Regional/State sites would be responsible for collection of information from their Disability Organizations. **NOTE: this is only a TENTATIVE diagram order. It is possible the UC UCEDD will collect data from the other RED sites and be the only entity reporting to Dr. Pomeranz.

Funding provided by the UC UCEDD at the National Institutes of Health GrantJamie L. Pomeranz, Ph.D, CRC, CLCP Principal Investigator, Dept. of Behavioral Science and Community Health Univ. of Florida