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The 2024 Spring Tobacco Control Institute was held on March 20, 2024.

• Keynote — Alex Hurst, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
  • Keynote slides
• Panel Session
• Session 1: How to Be an Evaluation Smart Cookie
  • Session 1 slides
• Session 2: From Stigma to Strength: Transforming Tobacco Outreach in
  Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas
  • Session 2 slides
• Session 3: Harm Reduction Approaches to Tobacco Cessation
  • Session 3 Slides
• Synthesis and Closing — Tobacco Control Program

Additional Information from presenters:

Keynote Presentation

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• Association of Cumulative Socioeconomic and Health-Related Disadvantage with Disparities in Smoking Prevalence in the United States, 2008 to 2017
• Campaign Resources to Counter Tobacco Marketing to Individuals with Tobacco Use Disorders 
• E-Cigarettes, Vapes, and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (US Food and Drug Administration)
• National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)
• The Toll of Tobacco in South Dakota
• E-cigarettes: Facts, stats and regulations
• Truth: Breath of Stress Air
• Tobacco smoking rates are decreasing in people with major depression and substance use disorder
• National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2020
• National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS): 2020
• Resources About Professionals About Vaping and E-Cigarettes: A Toolkit for Working with Youth 
• Youth, Vaping and Stress: What Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Providers Need to Know 
• Motivational Conversations for Youth and Young Adults: Peer-to-Peer Guidance for Talking about Substance Use, Including Tobacco and E-Cigarettes

Harm Reduction Breakout

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• The transtheoretical model of health behavior change
• Principles of Harm Reduction (National Harm Reduction Coalition)
• Harm Reduction Framework (SAMHSA)
• Harm reduction: what it is and is not
• Tobacco harm reduction: past history, current controversies and a proposed approach for the future
• Harm-Reduction Approaches to Smoking
• Modified Risk Tobacco Products
• Taking Mental Health and Substance Use Organizations Tobacco Free: Resource Guide 
• Taking Your Facility Tobacco-Free: A Brief Overview 
• COVID-19:  A Window of Opportunity for Taking Your Organization Tobacco Free  
• Trauma-informed Approaches in Tobacco Cessation Services: Implementation Brief 

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The 2023 Spring Tobacco Control Institute was held on March 29, 2023. 

• YOUTH AND VAPING
  Meredith Berkman, Parents Against Vaping e-Cigarettes
• STATE OF THE STATE
• ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 
• MEDIA PLANNING & BEST PRACTICES
• PROMOTING CESSATION
• YOU HAVE A POLICY – NOW WHAT?
  Bronson Frick, American Non-Smokers' Rights Foundation

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