Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

1. Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project Favian Kennedy Terry Salway

2. Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board • Serves as a formal representative board for Aberdeen tribes to communicate & participate with IHS. • Provides advocacy on behalf of tribal members in regard to health issues. • Provides epidemiological research and serves as a repository for American Indian data. • Promotes health education. • Provides direct services to tribes

3. AATCHB Organizational Environment

4. Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project • An Initiative of AATCHB to Specifically address the issue of chronic commercial tobacco use among Northern Plains Tribal members.

5. NPTPP Mission • To provide Northern Plains tribes with training and technical assistance to promote tobacco prevention and cessation health, and serve as a resource in the reduction of tobacco related morbidity and mortality among American Indian people.

6. Current NPTPP Priorities • Prevent the initiation of tobacco use among the young and pregnant mothers. • Promote cessation health. • Eliminate nonsmokers exposure to secondhand smoke. • Eliminate health disparities among Native American people that are a result of tobacco use.

7. Traditional Role of Tobacco • NPTPP acknowledges the traditional and sacred role of tobacco. • Tobacco has been used for prayer, offerings, gift-giving, & medicine. • Traditional tobacco is a blend of natural plants such as red willow, mullein, & bearberry. This This =

8. Habitual Tobacco Use • Habitual tobacco use is positively correlated with a number of health risks such as lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. • Habitual tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death in the US. • Habitual tobacco use is the target for intervention.

9. NPTPP Services • Tobacco Education • Training & Technical Assistance to Tribes • Prevention Resources • Smoking Cessation Resources • Tobacco Use Surveillance

10. Tobacco Education • NPTPP promotes basic tobacco education & awareness of tobacco and its meaning for American Indian communities. • Health consequences of habitual commercial tobacco use among American Indians are spotlighted.

11. Training & Technical Assistance to Tribes • NPTPP assists tribes to develop capacity to plan, implement, evaluate, and sustain comprehensive tobacco programs.

12. Prevention Resources • NPTPP promotes innovative tobacco prevention initiatives around the region and serves as a clearinghouse for tobacco prevention material.

13. Smoking Cessation Resources • NPTPP provides training and technical assistance on cessation curriculum and disseminates cessation resources to tribal communities. • NPTPP collaborates with states to promote use of state quitlines

14. Tobacco Use Surveillance • NPTPP assists tribes and states to conduct the Tobacco surveillance. • Currently conducting the ATS in Cheyenne River and Sisseton-Wahpeton. • Surveillance helps to inform tobacco control programs.

15. Indian Teens Against Tobacco Use Conference • Provided tobacco education for 50 youth. • Theme: Zi to Canli • Conference curriculum reflects the four aspects of wellness: physical, spiritual, mental, emotional. • Students produced tobacco prevention material in tiyospaye groups.

16. Youth Tobacco Conference

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