Smoking Cessation & Substance Use Disorders Webinar and CEUs

FREE Recorded Webinar and CE Credits: Smoking Cessation &  Substance Use Disorders

FREE Recorded Webinar and CE Credits: Smoking Cessation &  Substance Use Disorders http://hubs.ly/H029Zny0

If you missed the California Smokers' Helpline webinar on November 18, 2015, How to Talk with Your Patients about Smoking Cessation and Substance Use Disorders, you can view the recorded webinar and download the materials related to the course.

Resource for Tobacco Control Program Evaluation

The Power of Proof: An Evaluation Primer is a series of online educational tools produced by the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC). These tools are designed to help tobacco control professionals demonstrate the success of their programs through evaluation. This series will give those who are new to evaluation, and those who want to brush up on their skills, access to a collection of introductory information, tools, and resources from experts in the field. The Power of Proof series includes these parts:

• Part 1: Setting the Stage
• Part 2: Evaluation Planning
• Part 3: Writing Objectives
• Part 4: Data Collection
• Part 5: Types of evaluation
• Part 6: Interpreting the Data
• Part 7: Reporting Results

http://www.ttac.org/services/power-of-proof/index.html

Resource for Tobacco Coalitions

Reaching Higher Ground: A guide for preventing, preparing for, and transforming conflict for tobacco control coalitions.

http://www.ttac.org/services/pdfs/Higher_Ground.pdf

FOA for mHealth technology and interventions for LMICs

Please see below for a new NIH funding opportunity that may be of interest - the focus is on mHealth technology and interventions for LMICs, which could include tobacco control and cessation.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage exploratory/developmental research applications that propose to conduct research to develop or adapt innovative mobile health (mHealth) technology specifically suited for low and middle income countries (LMICs) and determine the health-related outcomes associated with implementation of the technology. Of highest interest are innovative, well-designed multidisciplinary projects that aim to generate generalizable knowledge for the field.
The overall goal of the FOA is to contribute to the evidence base for the use of mobile technology to improve clinical outcomes and public health while building research capacity in LMICs and establishing research networks in this area. Applicants are required to propose partnerships between at least one U.S. institution and one LMIC institution and the proposed research plan should strengthen the mHealth research capabilities at the LMIC institution.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-292.html

Webinar-Thirdhand Cigarette Smoke: A Persistent Environmental Contaminant

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is pleased to invite you to its next free webinar, “Thirdhand Cigarette Smoke: A Persistent Environmental Contaminant” on Thursday, June 23, 2016, at 2:00pm EDT (90 minutes).

We are honored to have Suzaynn Schick, PhD, Assistant Professor, in the School of Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco, presenting on this topic for us.

Webinar Objectives: 

• Explain what thirdhand cigarette smoke is
• Describe the exposure routes and potential health effects of thirdhand smoke
• Identify basic smoke chemistry and how data from cigarette smoke can apply to marijuana smoke
• Explain how environmental pollutants generated by cigarettes and e-cigarettes compare.

REGISTER HERE:    https://cc.readytalk.com/r/k9o5q6x2gatz&eom

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.

Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

California Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA category 1 Credit^TM. If you are a pharmacist in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.

Social Workers: This course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. If you a social worker in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.

CME/CEUs will be available for participants who join the LIVE session, on June 23, 2016. You will receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post webinar email.

Don’t need to claim CME/CEUs?  SCLC issues free certificates of attendance for those who want contact hours only.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues.  For questions, contact Jennifer Matekuare, SCLC Operations Manager, at jennifer.matekuare@ucsf.edu, or call toll-free (877) 509-3786.  This webinar will be recorded and may be viewed online on the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center’s website after the presentation.