On April 23-24, 2008, the Health Education Council (HEC) conducted its first national conference, Promising Practices from the Field: Tobacco Control Strategies for Priority Populations – an overwhelming success! This conference highlighted 2 HEC programs - the National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN) and the National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty (NNTPP) - as well as the work of other agencies and organizations seeking to eliminate tobacco-related disparities.
Over 200 participants attended the conference, representing 32 stat es as well as Canada. Conference evaluations revealed that participants were engaged and rated the sessions as extremely relevant to improving their work in tobacco control. Much of the conference's success can be attributed to both excellent speakers and NNTPP/NAATEN Stakeholders, who played a major role in the conference by moderating, speaking and facilitating.
Having received an overwhelming number of requests from conference attendees to make the presentation slides from each track available on-line, we have compiled most of the presentations for you and have made them available here:
www.healthedcouncil.org/nntpp and
www.healthedcouncil.org/naaten.
If you missed out on the conference this year, the presentations slides are a great way to stay informed on some of the groundbreaking discussions that took place in Detroit.
