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Reducing the Effects of Tobacco

Chronic Disease Risk Reduction 2009 Grant Application: Harvey County Logic Model

Goal 1: Preventing Initiation of Tobacco Use among Young People

Inputs: Grant Manager, School Health Councils, Regional Prevention Center, Communities in Schools, Tobacco Workgroup.

Activities: Recruit youth for the Tobacco Workgroup; provide logistical support for teens to attend tobacco-related events, provide advocacy training and logistical/technical/material support for teen-led counter-marketing efforts.

Outcomes:

Short-term: Educate teens on the health risks of tobacco use, recruit teens as advocates for counter-marketing among their peers.

Intermediate: Comprehensive Plan developed and adopted by the Harvey County Coalition; reduce tobacco use initiation by young people.

Long-term: Reduced risk factors for future chronic disease in current teens; reduce disparities for ethnic minority teens, reduce morbidity in adulthood for current teens.

Goal 2: Eliminating Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

Inputs: Coalition Members, Grant Manager, Outreach Coordinator for TUPP, TFKC

Activities: Determine level of public education necessary. Produce a strategic plan for community education efforts in the three cities without an ordinance. Identify city council members and survey key members to assess support for the ordinance.

Outputs:

Short Term: Plan constructed for introduction of the ordinance. Resources and support identified. Media plan designed. Local support in place.

Intermediate: Comprehensive Plan developed and adopted by the Harvey County Coalition; increased support for creation and active enforcement of tobacco-free /Clean Indoor Air policies.

Long-term: All Harvey County citizens protected at work and in public by smoke-free policies, reduced exposure to secondhand smoke, reduced rates of chronic diseases and morbidity associated with tobacco use or exposure.

Goal 3: Promoting Quitting Among Adults and Young People

Inputs: Grant Manager, Health Department staff, Health Care Professionals, TUPP Cessation Manager, Hispanic Council of Harvey County, Interpreter for HD, TUPP special population’s staff, Faith Community council, Harvey County Capacity Building Partnership.

Activities: Provide training opportunities for health care professionals to provide the 5A’s for tobacco cessation and to promote the Kansas Quitline in Harvey County. Utilize media opportunities on local radio and print ads to promote the Quitline. Conduct focus group discussions to create a plan for addressing Hispanic populations in Harvey County in health promotions activities.

Outcomes:

Short term: Increased number of providers following tobacco use screening and referral guidelines for Quitline.

Intermediate: Comprehensive Plan developed and adopted by the Harvey County Coalition; increased number of quit attempts, reduce tobacco use; ongoing identification of tobacco-related disparities; dissemination of culturally competent interventions.

Long-term: Reduce secondhand smoke exposure, chronic disease, morbidity, and decrease disparities associated with the use and effects of tobacco.

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