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Group
Summaries
National Partnership
Working Group Activities
Healthcare Working
Group
Media Working Group
Community and Worksites Working Group
Policy Working Group
Research and Evaluation Working
Group
The Healthcare Working
Group is striving to ensure that
systems are in place to screen all pregnant women for tobacco use,
and that all pregnant and postpartum smokers receive best-practice
cessation counseling by 2005.
 Currently, the
Healthcare Working Group is promoting and distributing the
CME-approved training manual and related materials developed by the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; gathering and
sharing provider success stories to promote the use of the 5 A's
approach; and developing mini-grants to encourage and learn from
successful smoking cessation efforts in Native American
communities.
Member Groups include:
- Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
- American Academy of
Pediatrics
- American Association of
Health Plans
- American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Association of SIDS and
Infant Mortality Programs
- Association of
Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
- Health Resources and
Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health
Bureau
- National Association of
County and City Health Officials
- National Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies Coalition
- National Perinatal
Association
- Partnership for
Prevention
The Media Working
Group is using the media to
promote the benefits of smoking cessation for pregnant smokers, and
to show their partners, families, friends, and neighbors how to
assist them in their quit attempts.
This Working Group is working with the entertainment community to
place stories on network and cable television shows, and developing
and placing National Partnership PSAs to alert pregnant women to
available resources. Ongoing media outreach is also underway to
place stories about smoking cessation for pregnant women in the
news. In addition, the group is developing materials such as
brochures and posters for distribution to doctors' offices,
clinics, public health offices, etc.
Member groups
include:
- American Heart
Association
- American Legacy
Foundation
- Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials
- Association of Women's
Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
- Campaign For Tobacco-Free
Kids
- Environmental Protection
Agency
- March of Dimes
- Smoke-Free Families
National Dissemination Office
- The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
- University of Wisconsin
Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
The Community
and Worksites Working Group's objective is to make smoking cessation
services and support widely available in communities and workplaces to
encourage pregnant women to quit and support them in their efforts to
do so. Currently, this group is working on a web-based turn-key kit for
community organizations and worksites.
Members groups include:
- American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American Legacy
Foundation
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids
- Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
- Environmental Protection
Agency
- March of Dimes
- Maternal and Child Health
Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Partnership for
Prevention
The Policy Working
Group's goal is to promote
policies that support smoke-free environments and improved access
to cessation treatments, and encourage economic support for such
policies.
This Working Group is developing a clearinghouse of materials that
partner organizations can use to conduct policy-related activities
on the federal, state and local levels. They are conducting a
survey of partner organizations to identify what kinds of materials
currently exist and what activities organizations are engaged in.
This information will serve as the foundation for the
clearinghouse, and the Policy Working Group will create
complimentary materials to fill in any gaps and develop a toolkit
on how to use available materials. The Policy Working Group will
also coordinate policy-related outreach efforts among partners to
reduce duplication in activities and to leverage available
resources.
Member groups include:
- American Cancer
Society
- American College of
Obstetrics and Gynecologists
- Association of Maternal
and Child Health Programs
- Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials
- Barker Bi-Coastal Health
Consultants
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids
- Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
- Center for Tobacco
Cessation
- Health Resources and
Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health
Bureau
- March of Dimes
The Research and
Evaluation Working Group is promoting research
efforts to develop more effective cessation interventions. The
Research Working Group is reviewing surveys to aid in the
development of core questions related to smoking during pregnancy
for future use in surveys, interventions, and patient care.
Recommendations will be published to inform future studies and
survey development.
Member groups include:
- American Academy of
Pediatrics
- Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
- Clean Air for Healthy
Children
- National Center for Health
Statistics
- Norris Cotton Cancer
Center
- Smoke-Free Families
National Dissemination Office
To
join us, call (919) 843-7663 or email info@helppregnantsmokersquit.org.
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