Transcript Mississippi Department of Health

Mississippi Department of Health
Tobacco Control Strategic Plan
June 2006-June 2010
Core Partners Strategic Plan
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Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
American Cancer Society
American Lung Association
American Heart Association
Information Quality Health Care-Tobacco
Quitline
MSU Social Science Research Center
Mississippi Cancer Registry
Mississippi Department of Education
University of Southern Mississippi-Center for
Tobacco Prevention for Health Promotion
Five Year Plan (4 Goal Areas)
• Eliminating Exposure to Environmental Tobacco
Smoke
• Preventing the Initiation of Tobacco Youth
• Access to Cessation Resources for Adults and
Youth
• Development of Infrastructure for Tobacco Use
Prevention
Goal One: Eliminating Exposure to
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
• Reduce the proportion of non-smokers
exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.
• Reduce the proportion of adults reporting
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
in the workplace.
Goal Two: Preventing the Initiation of
Tobacco by Youth
• Reduce Youth Initiation of tobacco use.
• Reduce youth smoking prevalence
Goal Three: Access to Cessation
Resources for Adults and Youth
• Increase smoking cessation attempts by
adult and youth smokers.
• Increase Smokeless Tobacco Cessation
attempts amongst youth.
Goal Four: Development of an
Infrastructure for Tobacco Use Prevention
• Reevaluate and rebuild the infrastructure
for tobacco use prevention and control and
the level of stakeholder commitment
necessary to implement a new 5-year
plan.
• Develop and implement a written
stakeholder communication plan.
Infrastructure
• Reevaluate and rebuild the infrastructure
for tobacco use prevention and control and
the level of stakeholder commitment
necessary to implement a new 5-year
plan.
• Develop and implement a written
stakeholder communication plan.
Tobacco Control Network
• Network was formed with numerous
organization with interest in tobacco.
• A Board, By-laws, regularly scheduled
meetings, policies, and procedures, were
established.
Purpose of Network
• Coordinate lines of communication with all
partners;
• Assess, create and identify new and
existing partners;
• Create an umbrella entity for the partner
network;
• Need to leverage relationships to build
partnerships
Continue to Develop Activities and
Strategies To:
• Continual the reduction of tobacco use amongst
high school and middle schools students;
• Decrease the number of adults and youth
exposed to second-hand smoke;
• Increase smoking cessation attempts by adults
and youth smokers;
• Continue to make the Tobacco Control Network
Strong amongst all those interested in tobacco
prevention
Office of Tobacco Control Network
• Chair
– Sandra Shelson, Executive Director
Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
• Co-Chair
– Becky Roberson
Vice President, Information Quality
Healthcare
• Secretary
– Tanya Funchess, Mississippi Department of
Health, Director, Division of Tobacco Policy
and Prevention
How To Join
Membership Page on MDH’s Website (not active yet)
Tanya T. Funchess
601-576-7781
[email protected]
Partners
• Sandra Shelson-Executive Director,
Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
• Pamela Luckett-Director of Tobacco
Quitline of Mississippi
• Janice Hunt-Director of Family Health
Resource Center