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Join our webinar, Workforce Strategies for Tobacco Treatment: The Role of Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists, on June 25 at 12p.m. ET. Hear from Dr. Andre L. Johnson, founder, president and CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project about how community health workers and peer support specialists can help improve tobacco treatment support. The webinar will explore practical workforce models, training and support strategies, and systems-level approaches for integrating these roles across behavioral health, public health, and community settings.
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of community health workers and peer support specialists in advancing tobacco cessation and reducing cancer-related imbalances.
- Identify evidence-based and promising workforce models that integrate peers and community health workers into tobacco treatment initiatives.
- Examine training, supervision, and support structures that promote effective and sustainable peer and community health worker engagement.
- Explore policy, systems, and environmental strategies that enable workforce integration across behavioral health, public health, and community settings.