Help Your Clients Quit! Become a Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS)
When: November 14th, 15th and 16th, 8:30am - 4:30pm in San Francisco
The California Center for Tobacco Cessation (CaCTC) and the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School are offering an in-person Tobacco Treatment Specialist training at the University of California, San Francisco. For accepted applicants, the CaCTC will provide scholarships to cover the entire training fee. Limited travel scholarships are available.
Learn up-to-date, evidence-based strategies for working with individuals with tobacco use and dependence. Our training includes asynchronous online learning, interactive lectures, and small group practice exercises and role plays. Gain the skills and confidence to provide moderate to intensive treatment interventions to patients and clients within your setting.
In order to receive a document of completion, all participants must complete the entire TTS training consisting of:
1. TTS Part 1: 10 hours of online asynchronous training on your own, provided through the Blackboard online learning platform, to be completed prior to Part 2
2. TTS Part 2: 3-day in-person training
3. TTS Exam: accessed online via the Blackboard online learning platform; Completion of the TTS exam WITHIN 6 WEEKS of training is required in order to receive a Certificate of Attendance.
Participants who successfully meet all training completion requirements AND score a 75% or above on the written exam will receive a “Document of Completion,” which is a requirement for the “National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.”
For FAQs, please click here.
*Participants must be tobacco-free for six months prior to attending training. Exemptions to this policy can be reviewed by the trainer.
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About the California Center for Tobacco Cessation
As the California Center for Tobacco Cessation, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) provides training and technical assistance in support of the tobacco endgame movement. We aim to engage and build the capacity of organizations, clinicians, community stakeholders, and CTCP-funded projects to advocate for and put into effect tobacco-use assessments and cessation services within their communities and systems.
- What we do:
- Support behavioral health sites to be tobacco-free and to connect to cessation services and treatment
- Provide educational materials promoting tobacco cessation
- Provide tobacco cessation training with Continuing Education Units to improve local tobacco cessation capacity
- Improve access to cessation services through technical assistance
- Develop strategic partnerships to reduce barriers to cessation treatment
- Who we help:
- CTCP-Funded Projects
- Public Health Professionals
- Health Care and Behavioral Health Providers
Events & Opportunities
Resources from our partners at Kick It California include:
- Kick It California Health Professionals Webpage (listed under webinar trainings)
- Kick It California Tobacco Cessation Education & Training Resources Webpage
- AB 541: Helping Tobacco Users in Substance Use Treatment - This flyer (also available in Spanish) provides information on how bill AB 541 can help tobacco users in substance use treatment and how to refer patients or clients to Kick It California cessation services
Aug. 17: "Access to Tobacco Treatment for the Justice-Involved, Part 3: Programming Innovation and Operations"
Thursday, August 17, 2023 10:00am PDT (60 minutes) Read more and register
Collection E
- The UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is pleased to offer this special collection of select past webinars. This Collection includes eleven (11) webinars presented throughout 2022 at a special price for a limited time. Topics include treating effective partnerships to treat tobacco addiction, tobacco use in the LGBTQ+ community, environmental health and advocacy, tobacco use among race and ethnic populations, pharmacists' prescribing, advancing equitable tobacco outcomes, and novel tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. Use code CADPH23 (or SAMHSA23 if you are outside of California) to waive the registration fee. Register
This is a comprehensive tobacco cessation training program that equips health professional students and practicing clinicians, of all disciplines, with evidence-based knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting. Thanks to support from the California Department of Tobacco Policy and Prevention, a certificate of completion and 4.0 CMEs will be provided at no charge for those who complete this 4-hour series.
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- Kick It CA created a 13-minute video training for healthcare providers to support AB 541 implementation. Watch "Tobacco and Mental Health"
California Tobacco Control Program Issues a New Funding Opportunity Alert
- Opening July 13 and closing September 12, 2023, this RFA seeks to fund up to six (6) local projects for a period of 15 months.This RFA requires awardees to work on local policy objectives that would make the greatest impact on the population’s health and the environment and to engage people living in rural communities in these efforts. Awardees will implement a prescribed Scope of Work (SOW), which includes community education, capacity building, community organizing, and coordination and collaboration activities. Read more about Funding Opportunity Alert for RFA #23-10060 Empowering Rural Communities to End the Tobacco Epidemic
Are you interested in addressing tobacco cessation in the behavioral health population? Would you like to bring a dynamic and interactive training to your county and learn how behavioral health facilities near you can go tobacco-free? How about hosting the next Behavioral Health Regional Training in your community?!
If you are interested in hosting this free training that CTCP is offering to your community, please fill out this brief survey.
The purpose of this training is to aid CTCP-funded projects, local tobacco control coalitions, staff of County Mental Health, and Alcohol and Drug Departments, and behavioral health facility administrators and providers on the special cessation needs and opportunities among persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders.
The training is designed to: (1) advance smoke free policies within mental health facilities; (2) make system changes in the treatment of nicotine dependence within the mental health and substance abuse treatment fields; and (3) create successful working partnerships between county-level tobacco control and mental health programs to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Your role and responsibilities: Participate in event planning calls, identify a department head or health care provider for opening remarks and actively promote this event to your target audience.
For more information, please contact Jessica Safier of SCLC at [email protected]
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