Tools for Mobilizing Communities

Be Free Indeed! - Tobacco Prevention Tools for the African American Church
Five guides developed by the National African American Tobacco Education Network with messages and activities designed specifically for the church, preachers, men, women, and youth.

Best Practices User Guide: Coalitions - State and Community Interventions
Focues on the critical role coalitions play in a comprehensive tobacco control program. This guide will provide tobacco control program managers with information on the best practices of utilizing coalitions as part of a comprehensive program that can lead to important policy change.

Building Effective Collaborations: Organizations Working Together in Tobacco Control (February 2009)
This publication features three case studies that demonstrate a wide range of strategies organizations can use to engage different stakeholders in their tobacco control programs. These examples also reflect a vareity of challenges and issues organizations face in their efforts to build and lead effective collaborations. Other organizations can learn from these examples in order to use collaborative strategies more effectively in achieving sustainable tobacco control outcomes for their communities.

Community Voices Initiative: Promoting Systems Change in Community Driven Tobacco Control
This May 2008 Legacy publication examines how Community Voices grantees generated systems-level changes in healthcare systems, foremost in the area of tobacco control to provide tobacco cessation and prevention services primarily to disadvantaged communities. This publication is also available in Spanish.

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 appropriateness.

The Heritage Month Toolkit (New!)
An internet-based tool that provides materials to facilitate the planning and implementation of culturally tailored tobacco control activities. The toolkit includes educational materials in the form of tailored Fact Sheets, PowerPoints, press releases, and print media. In addition, the toolkit provides access to publicly available culturally tailored tobacco control resources.

Implementing a Community Readiness Approach to Tobacco Control
A compilation of case studies developed by APPEAL highlighting how five regional coalitions or networks from across the continental U.S. and Hawai`i took up the challenge of reducing tobacco use in their local Asian American and Pacific Islander communities using a community capacity building approach.  By sharing their experiences, accomplishments and challenges, we hope others will gain new ideas and fresh strategies to apply within their own communities.  To request a copy, please contact us at appeal@appealforhealth.org  or 510-272-9536.

Legacy Collaboration Toolkit
This toolkit from Legacy is designed for people in tobacco control who work for a broad range of public health departments and nonprofit organizations. The framework of this toolkit assumes that these tobacco control professionals have some experience and knowledge of building and managing a wide vareity of collective endeavors. The toolkit seeks to provide additional, practical tools for creating, evaluating and improving collective efforts.

Letter to Beyonce Knowles
National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN) and National African American Tobacco Prevention Network (NAATPN) collaborated on a grassroots letter writing campaign to educate Beyonce Knowles and other artist regarding tobacco industry co-optation.

LGBT Populations and Tobacco
The "LGBT Populations and Tobacco 2nd edition" is prepared by Perry Stevens and designed to educate tobacco control professionals who want to expand their knowledge of LGBT populations, provide strategies for incorporating LGBT populations into overall tobacco control efforts, inform LGBT audiences wanting to know more about the dangers of tobacco use and how the tobacco industry targets them, and provide information to help tobacco control professionals and LGBT health organizations build capacity for LGBT tobacco control interventions.

LGBT Tobacco Action Plan
The National LGBT communities' Tobacco Action Plan, with top 5 action steps.

Make Your Mark: Mobilizing Youth Against Tobacco in AAPI Communities
Make Your Mark was developed by APPEAL for youth who are interested in becoming tobacco control advocates, but are not sure where to start. This guide provides an overview of tobacco control issues and their impact on youth and AAPI communities, youth-friendly strategies for community organizing, developing and implementing action plans and getting resources and a toolbox including sample project ideas, an action plan worksheet and helpful internet resources. Please contact APPEAL at appeal@appealforhealth.org to receive a copy of this publication.

Making Tobacco Relevant for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
The relevance kit is designed by APPEAL to explain why tobacco prevention and control is an important issue to address in AAPI communities. The goals are threefold: to increase awareness of Asian American and Pacific Islander tobacco issues; to provide methods for making tobacco issues relevant to diverse communities; to motivate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to become involved with tobacco control.  Community members, policy makers, community health centers, health professionals, and program developers can benefit from reading this kit. Please contact APPEAL at appeal@appealforhealth.org to receive a copy of this publication.

A Model for Cross Ethnic Collaboration: The Statewide Tobacco Education and Engagement Project (STEEP)
The Statewide Tobacco Education and Engagement Project (STEEP) is a five-organization collaborative that aims to educate the Cambodian, Hmong, Lao and Vietnamese communities on the health consequences of tobacco use, and empower community members to create smoke free spaces in their homes, community centers, and places of worship. Their remarkable success story highlights the lessons they learned from working together given the history of conflict in their home countries between the ethnic groups.

National Youth Advocacy Coalition FREE Resource Guide
A resource guide for FREE - Friends for Real, Educating and Empowering - which helps train youth LGBTQ peer educators and adult allies to confront Tobacco.

Tobacco's Target Populations
Developed by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, this resource provides valuable information about how the tobacco industry targets certain populations, including African Americans, LGBTs, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives. As the smokefree policy movement continues to gain momentum, it is key to engage diverse communities to ensure a stronger and more successful campaign to protect all people from secondhand smoke exposure.