Peers Helping Peers: Ways to Quit with Rx for Change

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is pleased to invite you to its next free webinar, “Peers Helping Peers: Ways to Quit with Rx for Change,” on July 24, 2013 at 1pm Eastern Time (120 minutes).  

We are honored to have the following experts presenting on this topic:

Ken Duckworth, MD, Medical Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Karen S. Hudmon, DrPH, MS, RPh, Professor and Associate Head for Operations, Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University

Frank Vitale, MA, National Director of the Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation

Beth Lillard, Project Director, Adult Tobacco Cessation Services, Bay Area Community Resources

Karen Balsamico, Peer Coordinator, Adult Tobacco Cessation Services, Bay Area Community Resources

SCLC Deputy Director, Catherine Saucedo, will moderate the webinar.

Webinar objectives: 

• Explain why it is important to quit smoking
• Understand why tobacco products are addictive
• Describe what helps people quit smoking
• Explain what peer counselors can do to help others quit smoking
• Learn from a peer consumer about how to put the training into practice

Register now!   https://cc.readytalk.com/r/4i5pmzum1b1i&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 and allied health professionals.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Participants who join the LIVE session, on July 24, 2013, are eligible to earn up to 2.0 CME/CEU credits for a fee of $25* per certificate.  Physicians and allied health professionals should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.  Nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other allied health professionals may also claim CE credits.

*Through September 30, 2013, you are eligible to receive FREE CME/CEU credit thanks to the support of SAMHSA. Please contact Jennifer Matekuare at jmatekuare@medicine.ucsf.edu , after the webinar, to sign up.

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. 

 

Provider Workshop on Peer Support Techniques and Tobacco Cessation May 29, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 29, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

Peer Support Facilitated by Glenn Hopkins, PS.  What is peer support? How can we use it to enhance recovery?

Tobacco Myths Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

MOST Program Facilitated by Asa GreenRiver. Learn how young men build individualized definitions of masculinity that promote healthy relationships.

“Getting Ahead” Peer PanelFacilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call 740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal.

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

PTSD Facilitated by Rhonda Hunt, PS.  Recognition, symptoms and ways to make lives easier living with PTSD.

Tobacco Myths  Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

 

 “Getting Ahead” Peer Panel Facilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.
 

Inuksuk: Building a Path to Peer Wellness and Recovery

Participants will have the opportunity to create their own Inuksuk, in an interactive discussion and art project.

 

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

 Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org  Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress  swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and  Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call  740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal. 

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.