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Tools for Assessing Communities

"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@aapcho.org or 510-272-9536 to request a hard copy.



Integrating Evaluation into Tobacco Programs for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
The evaluation kit is developed by APPEAL, to help people who are developing or implementing tobacco control programs for AAPI communities.  The goals of this kit are:  to help program planners understand the value of evaluation for their program; to identify ways to plan and incorporate evaluations; to provide different methods for conducting evaluations; to provide case studies of how evaluation can be planned for specific AAPI tobacco control programs.

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



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



Smoking Habits and Prevention Strategies in Low Socio-economic Status Populations
Focus group study conducted by West Virginia University, Prevention Research Center and NNTPP.



Tobacco Control Needs in Colorado
Tobacco Control Needs of the LGBT Community in Colorado - A Priority Population Statewide Needs Assesment.


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.
    



Year one LGBT Tobacco Prevention and Control Focus Groups Data
Year one and year two of the LGBT Tobacco Prevention and Control Program were focused on the Tobacco Program staff visiting LGBT Community Centers across the country to conduct focus groups. This is the data collected during that time.