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 …
On March 4-6, 2012, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health convened the Living Well: Strategies for Tobacco Free Recovery Summit. The Summit brought together more than 160 Communities …
May 15, 2014 was a momentous day for North Carolina. On that day, North Carolina amended a rule to ban the use of tobacco anywhere on the grounds of a …
The Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP) has developed recommendations on how treatment facilities can become tobacco-free. This document provides mental health/substance use treatment programs and state governing bodies with a roadmap about specific elements and steps that collectively constitute a tobacco-free treatment setting. It emphasizes: 1) the importance of a tobacco-free healthy treatment setting; 2) the provision of evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment; and 3) the necessity of helping staff who have tobacco dependence to quit.
With her finger on the pulse of advocacy, practice improvement, and trends, Linda Rosenberg, CEO & President of the National Council for Behavioral Health, brings news from the field that you, or your work, can’t live without.
