- 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.
- Promote Provider-Motivated Education
The
group discussed the need to 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.
- Promote Staff Wellness and Smoking Cessation
The
group proposed to 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.
- Outreach to Key Players and Stakeholders
The
group proposed to 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.
- Build Infrastructure
It is important to realize
that the summit’s
participants are a unique group in that each includes
representatives from all key organization types: Advocates,
Policymakers, Consumers, Family Members, Providers,
Researchers/Academia, SAMHSA/CMHS (fed), and Quitlines. An
infrastructure is required to keep
communication flowing between each partner. As
such, the coalition agreed that within a 6-month interim,
an Interim Governance Group (IGG) will be
formed and will stay connected via conference call
and/or email as needed. Goals of the IGG are:
(1) Reaffirm participants’ commitments to action
and contribution to carry forward strategies and report
on other related activities. (2) Synthesize all of
the strategies, propose which or all strategies the
coalition will pursue and ask people to “sign-up” for
the strategies they want to work on and contribute
to. Bob Glover of NASMHPD offered to take on the role
of chair of the IGG and support the work going forward. The
Poetry Group, another committee formed at the summit,
helped to determine the name and mission of the partnership.
- Assess and Strengthen the Effectiveness
of Quitlines with Consumers and Staff
The group discussed
the benefits of quitlines and brought up the 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 can
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.
- Develop Data
Much data must be collected
to know consumer-specific information on smoking rates
and behaviors.
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