Tobacco Recovery Consumer Empowerment

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Tobacco RecoveryConsumer Empowerment

• Interagency Leadership Council
• Initiated January 2008

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Agencies Involved

• BASICS, Inc.
• Lower East Side Service Center
• Odyssey House
• Palladia

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Research

• Positive behavioral interventions associated with
  significant increases in abstinent rates
• Buddy support
• Intra treatment social support
• Extra treatment social support
• Telephone counseling
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical
  Practice Guideline UDDHHS, June 2000
• [phone]

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Rationale

• Agency Benefits
• Increase learning curve
• Share resources
• Collegial support and encouragement
• Obtain direct client input into policy
  development
• Build client buy-in
• Acknowledge client wisdom, experience

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Rationale, cont.

• Clients
• Develop intra and extra social support
• Receive overt recognition
• Become part of grass-roots recovery movement
• Build sense of control over changes
• Identify with something larger than self or
  program
• Supported by substance abuse research (NDRI) as
  critical
• Contribute to the recovery community

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Rationale, cont.

• Field of Recovery
• Pilot model for replicablity
• Create opportunities for evaluation, research

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Rationale, cont.

• Field of Recovery
• Pilot model for replicablity
• Create opportunities for evaluation, research

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Staff Role

• Executive Sponsors
• Coordinate meetings
• Facilitate process
• Provide resources
• Staff
• Guide small group work
• Provide agency on-site support and direction
• Liaison with inter-agency staff

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Client Criteria

• Interested in the smoking cessation project
• Committed to the treatment program
• Willing to invest time and energy
• Meetings
• Liaison with community peers
• Pioneer
• New members accepted

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MeetingsBuild Council Identity, Cohesion and
Social Support

• Monthly or more frequently as needed
• Rotate sites
• Format
• Staff Introduction
• Large Group Discussion
• Group identity
• Idea sharing
• Inter Agency Small Work Groups
• Focused work
• Inter-agency collaboration
• Large Group Discussion
• Report Out
• Next Steps

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Start-up Outline

• Education
• Wellness and Recovery
• Benefits of quitting
• OASAS Regulations
• Process of Change
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Survey Peers
• Member Status

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Achievements

• Program Updates
• Compare progress, generate positive competition,
  share ideas
• Specific Policy Recommendations
• Explore pros and cons
• Positive Reinforcement
• Quit attempts
• Successful abstinence
• Care and concern

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Achievements, cont.

• Inter-Agency Work Groups
• Newsletter
• Peer to Peer Educator
• Social-Recreation Activities
• Public Awareness