“How will our members react to a tobacco-free campus?” “Will this change the way we interact with them?” “What if members stop coming?” These questions echo the concerns that behavioral …
Individuals with mental health and substance use disorders use commercial tobacco at rates 2 to 4 times higher than the general population and have an increased risk of cancer. To …
900,000 people. That’s almost 1 million individuals who smoke in the state of Kentucky – the state with the highest rate of smoking. People with mental illness make up a …
As we mark the 40th anniversary of the first nationwide Great American Smokeout this Thursday, November 16, Tom Hill, Vice President of Practice Improvement at the National Council for Behavioral Health, speaks out about the importance of addressing tobacco within behavioral health populations.
On September 6 and 7, 2017, the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Department of Health, and Department of Children and Families, in partnership with the CDC’s National Behavioral Health …
With funding from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, project directors Lorraine Reitzel, Cho Lam and Bill Wilson guided 18 mental health authorities (later joined by a nineteenth) through a new initiative to become 100 percent tobacco-free.
A 2015 Tobacco & Cancer Control Community of Practice (CoP) member, Way Station Outpatient Mental Health Clinic went Tobacco-Free in May of 2016. Way Station is a behavioral health organization …
Success story about 10 mental health treatment facilities in Connecticut and Massachusetts that tested out a new Approach to Addressing Tobacco Use Through Organizational Change (ATTOC) – a 10-step process …
