Tools for Assessing Communities

Administering the Alaska Native Adult Tobacco Survey
This manual is a guidance tool for health professionals who plan to implement the Alaska Native Adult Tobacco Survey (AN ATS) in Alaska Native villages and communities. The AN ATS manual contains methods and strategies that organizations will need to conduct a scientifically rigorous survey. It also includes step-by-step guidance on how to conduct the AN ATS, techncal information, and other resources.

American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey Implementation Manual
The American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey (AI ATS) is designed to be a guidance tool for American Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and other organizations that want to implement the AI ATS. The methods and strategies contained within provide organizations with the materials needed to conduct a scientifically rigorous survey. These materials include step-by-step guidance on how to conduct the AI ATS, as well as technical information and resources.

Assessing Complilance with Smoke-Free Laws: A "How-to" Guide for Conducting Compliance Studies (March 2011)
Developed by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the purpose of this guide is to help tobacco control professionals prepare fore and implement studies to assess compliance with smoke-free laws. This guide presents step-by-step information, beginning with the needs to clarify why a compliance study might be conducted to practical considerations such as timelines and resources, and finally how to analyze, present and disseminate findings to best meet the strategic reasons for the study.

"Black Folks Don't Use Quitlines!"-Exploring the True Story
A National Assessment Project (Executive Summary) developed by the National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN)

Community -Based Participatory Research on Traditional and Commercial Tobacco Use
PowerPoint Presentation by Jean Foster, University of Minnesota.

Conducting Needs Assessments for Tobacco Control in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
The needs assessment kit is developed by APPEAL to help those who work with AAPI communities on tobacco prevention and control to better design and implement their activities and programs.  The goals of this kit are:  to educate community advocates on the benefits of needs assessments to their tobacco control activities and programs; to help tobacco control advocates choose the best needs assessment for their program by instructing them on the different types of needs assessment and how to conduct them.

Please contact APPEAL at appeal@appealforhealth.org or 510-272-9536 to request a hard copy.

For Sacred Use Only: Tobacco Use Among American Indian/Alaskan Natives in the U.S.
In an interview with Psychosocial Health Podcasts, Claradina Soto discusses the high smoking prevalence rate in American Indian/Alaskan Native populations in the U.S. Soto also discusses the importance of community participation and inclusion during the development, implementation, evaluation, and disemmination of tobacco control programs to ensure their cultural approripateness.

Please contact APPEAL at appeal@appealforhealth.org or 510-272-9536 to request a hard copy.

Legacy Priority Populations Initiative: Building Capacity in Cultural Tailoring
This Legacy publication features case studies exploring strategies for tailoring tobacco control programs to meet the unique cultural needs of a target population. This publication is also available in Spanish.

LGBT Health and Human Services Evaluation Toolkit 2011
Prepared by Strength in Numbers Consulting Group for the AIDS Institute of the New York State Department of Health, this toolkit provides LGBT service providers with sample survey scales for indicators from four main categories: health, social support, self-efficacy, and cultural competency.

Reach, Serve, LGBT 
Presentation by Scout, Ph.D; points you in the right direction to access data on LGBT's and smoking prevelance.

Tobacco Control in Low SES Populations (September 2010)
This Legacy publication highlights tobacco-related disparities facing low SES populations and features case studies examining promising, culturally tailored practices to provide prevention and cessation services to these underserved populations.

Tobacco Control in Rural America (July 2009)
This Legacy publication takes a closer look at tobacco control efforts outside of metropolitan areas, where tobacco use is higher. The case studies featured in this publication explore a "place-based" approach to tobacco control that is flexible and dynamic for targeting the specific challenges of priority population groups in rural America.

Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Latino Communities
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, March 2006.  A participatory research and action project with results from the qualitative research component of the Diverse Racial Ethnic Groups and Nations (DREGAN) Project.  The DREGAN qualitative research project sought to understand and share the complex meaning that tobacco has in Minnesota's Latino communities.