Partnership Strategies
The Partnership developed a preliminary list of core strategies to pursue.
1. Person-Centered Education: Embrace Consumer-Driven Process
The group discussed the need to have person-centered education that is strengths-based and offers values that fit within each consumer’s personal goals. There needs to be a consumer-driven process to achieve smoking cessation and wellness.
2. Promote Provider-Motivated Education
Capture the interest of providers to educate consumers about smoking cessation and wellness so that they know about the tobacco industry’s targeting tactics (link to MH and Tobacco Industry under resources ) and learn about proper use of psychotropic drugs and their interactions with nicotine. Provider education should incorporate the lessons learned and the approaches of a “person-centered education” strategy.
3. Promote Staff Wellness and Smoking Cessation
Build staff smoking interventions around wellness, and agreed staff should work with providers to offer optimal smoking cessation interventions for consumers that reflect insights from the “person-centered education” strategy.
4. Outreach to Key Players and Stakeholders
Form a partnership that encompasses all other key groups such as NIMH, NIDA, NIH, other multicultural organizations and existing SCLC partners who share the same goal.
6. Assess and Strengthen the Effectiveness of Quitlines with Consumers and Staff
Need to have a two way exchange of learning regarding how quitlines can best support people with mental health issues and how they can have access to mental health services. In this process, we will learn how effective quitlines are for consumers and staff. But first, in order to strengthen referrals to quitlines for both staff and consumers, we need to educate ourselves as well as staff and providers about quitlines and its services.
7. Develop Data
Much data must be collected to know consumer-specific information on smoking rates and behaviors.