“Where's the Justice? Tobacco Use and the Incarcerated” Webinar

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is pleased to invite you to its next free webinar, “Where's the Justice? Tobacco Use and the Incarcerated”, on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at 2:00pm Eastern Time/ 11:00am Pacific Time (90 minutes).

We are honored to have the following expert speakers presenting on this topic for us:

• Chad D. Morris, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Behavioral Health & Wellness Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Psychiatry
• Brenda K. Howard, MS, CADC, CCS, Public Health Section Chief, Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, Arkansas Department of Health
• Ben Udochi, CCS, Assistant Director Parole/Probation Treatment Services, Arkansas Community Correction

Webinar Objectives: 

·         Identify socio-cultural, political, and environmental factors that contribute to the high prevalence of smoking among justice involved individuals. 

·         Describe a tobacco cessation continuity-of-care program for justice involved individuals that has been implemented in several states.

·         Examine processes for integrating tobacco cessation in Arkansas within justice involved incarcerated settings and field based supervised populations.

REGISTER HERE:   https://cc.readytalk.com/r/3pmwgu99zc9&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 Credits^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 October 8, 2014. 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 jmatekuare@medicine.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.