Tobacco Use Recovery Now TURN

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Tobacco Use Recovery Now(TURN)

• A Signal Behavioral
• Health Network
• Change Plan
• October 1, 2006 September 30, 2008

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TURN Advisory Committee, Phase I

• Ellen Brown, Colorado Social Research Associates
  (CSRA)
• Sherie Calvillo, Servicios de la Raza
• Carmelita Muniz, Colorado Association of Alcohol
  and Drug Services Providers (CAADSP)
• Jacques Okonji, Community Alcohol-Drug
  Rehabilitation Education Center
• Don Rothschild, Advocates for Recovery
• Meredith Silverstein, CSRA
• Erik Stone, Signal Behavioral Health Network
• Nancy VanDeMark, CSRA
• Mary VanderWall, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division
  (ADAD)
• Bill Wendt, Signal Behavioral Health Network
• Walter Snip Young, Advanced Health Directions

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TURN Program Mission

• Increase capacity for providing tobacco cessation
  treatment in the Colorado substance abuse
  treatment community.

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Goal I

• Educate Signal treatment staff / clients about
  health impacts of tobacco role of tobacco
  cessation in sustaining recovery.
• Request marketing assistance from State Tobacco
  Education Prevention Partnership (STEPP)
• Implement stages-of-change informational
  campaign
• 3. Create TURN website
• 4. Create and test educational materials
• 5. Educate clinical staff about tobacco
• cessation treatment.

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Goal II

• Promote policy interventions to integrate
  tobacco cessation services in Signal provider
  network.
• 1. Create Signal provider workgroup to
• work on tobacco
  policies
• 2. Analyze Signal policies for best
  practices and gaps
• 3. Disseminate findings of policy
  analysis
• 4. Identify strategies to promote adoption of
  best practice policies
• 5. Adopt review process for policies and document
  changes during project period.

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Goal III

• Deliver tobacco cessation services to Signal
  employees clients.
• Disseminate lists of tobacco cessation resources
  to providers
• Adopt a policy to encourage
• development of cessation
• treatment protocols
• 3. Provide training to Signal staff on
• evidence-based tobacco cessation models.

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Goal IV

• Disseminate policies cessation protocols to
  treatment programs statewide.
• Add tobacco cessation to ADAD/Managed Services
  Organization Clinical Advisory Group agenda
• Hold ADAD Research Forum on tobacco cessation
• Identify regulatory and reimbursement
  policies/practices in other states
• Educate policy makers on benefits of integrated
  cessation substance abuse treatment
• Develop Memoranda of Agreement with key
  organizations to fund and disseminate
• Promote statewide dissemination of
• evidence-based strategies.

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Goal V

• Develop strategic plan for integration of
  tobacco policies and cessation protocols for all
  Colorado substance abuse providers.
• 1. Integrate promising cessation practices
  into existing curricula such as DUI
  curricula
• Identify treatment outcome measures for
  providers, MSOs, state agencies
• 3. Identify funding options for pilot clinical
  cessation protocols.

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