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Tobacco Recovery Coalition of the Capital District

MISSION STATEMENT

The Tobacco Recovery Coalition of the Capital District is a group of providers that work together to address tobacco dependence, and to promote recovery from tobacco dependence in our organizations and treatment programs. Our objective is to develop strategies and support each other’s efforts to be tobacco-free facilities and grounds and address abstinence from tobacco and tobacco products in our organizations and with the people we serve.

GOALS

1. Develop a policy framework for providers to utilize as a resource for establishing and maintaining tobacco-free facilities.
   
2. Identify funding sources to assist in the provision of education to staff as well as nicotine replacement therapies and educational resources.
   
3. Identify strategies to support and promote staff recovery from tobacco dependence.
   
4. Provide support to providers to make commitment to establish of tobacco-free facilities.
   
5. Identify strategies to support the integration of tobacco dependence services into the chemical dependency treatment service delivery system.
   
6. Provide educational resources, curricula, and training to providers.
   
7. Advocate to establish a reimbursement rate for treatment services.
   
8. Develop partnerships with affiliated groups such as ASAP, OASAS, Capital District Tobacco Free Coalition, AAPNY, etc.      

The following fifteen agencies in the Capital Region have pledged to become tobacco-free programs by February 14, 2007:

• Albany County Mental Health Substance Abuse Services
• 820 River Street, Inc. (Peter Young Housing Industries and Treatment)
• Conifer Park
• Hudson Mohawk Recovery Center
• St. Peter's Addiction Recovery Center (St. Peter’s Healthcare Services)
• The Addictions Care Center of Albany
• Homer Perkins Center
• Pahl House
• Pearl Street Counseling Center
• Whitney M. Young Jr. Health Center FACTS & MMTP Programs
• Seton Health Addiction Services at Saint Mary's Hospital
• Senior Hope
• Equinox
• Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Council of Schenectady County
• Twin County Recovery Services

To support this regional effort, the Coalition and the Center for Smoking Cessation of Seton Health offer the following trainings to prepare chemical dependency providers to integrate tobacco dependence treatment into their treatment programs and establish tobacco-free environments:

• Treating Nicotine Dependence
• Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change
• Integrating Tobacco Recovery in Treatment
• Organizational Aspects of Integrating Tobacco Recovery
• Medical Issues

The Tobacco Recovery Coalition has contributed several resources to tobaccodependence.org:

• Twelve Steps to Establishing Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Free Chemical Dependency Programming
  
• Committed to the Health of Our Workforce and Patients: A brochure to orient employees to a tobacco-free program
  
• Committed to the Treatment of Nicotine Dependence: A brochure to orient patients to a tobacco-free program

 

To learn more about the Tobacco Recovery Coalition of the Capital Region, please contact:

Janice Pritchett, Coalition Chair Saint Peter's Addiction Recovery Center (518) 452-6713 JPrichett@stpetershealthcare.org

Lisa Currin Seton Health Center for Smoking Cessation (518) 268-5864 LCurrin@setonhealth.org