| ADHA Wins Second-Year Grant
for Smoking Cessation Initiative
Chicago—January 31, 2005—The
American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) is pleased to announce
it has again received a one-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
This year, the grant was increased from $70,000
to just more than $200,000. The grant will be used to continue the
nationwide campaign to promote smoking cessation through the efforts
of registered dental hygienists, which was created last year.
“ADHA’s Smoking Cessation Initiative
achieved such high regard that the Smoking Cessation Leadership
Center established it as a model for other similar programs,”
says Helena Gallant Tripp, RDH, ADHA president. “We are very
excited to utilize the additional grant funding this year to expand
on the groundwork and success from our first year.”
Each state, including Washington D.C., will
receive $1,000 from the grant to support their state Smoking Cessation
Initiative liaison. This funding will help the liaisons to promote
the Ask. Advise. Refer. program throughout their
state. Each liaison will be provided a resource kit complete with
professional resources to be disseminated to all involved parties.
Additionally, the Ask. Advise. Refer. Web site,
which offers a popular online discussion room, is being updated
to expand its functions to increase the resources provided to dental
hygienists nationwide.
"The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
is pleased to continue our productive partnership with ADHA in our
joint quest to help smokers quit. We are impressed with the tremendous
work dental hygienists have done so far through this initiative,
and we are excited about the prospect of even better results in
the future, because we know that dental hygienists are energetic,
enthusiastic and effective partners in the health campaign against
tobacco addiction," said Connie Revell, deputy director, Smoking
Cessation Leadership Center, UCSF.
Heading the Smoking Cessation Initiative
is Project Manager Carol Southard, RN, MSN. She is an American Lung
Association certified instructor with almost 20 years of experience.
Southard is the smoking cessation consultant for many Chicago-area
hospitals and she recently served on the expert panel of the Illinois
Academies of Family Physicians and Pediatrics, which produced a
continuing education presentation focusing on prevention and cessation
strategies for adolescents.
Dental hygienists or consumers interested
in receiving additional information should contact Carol Southard,
ADHA SCI project manager, at 312-440-8920 or at carols@adha.net.
ADHA is the largest national organization
representing the professional interests of the more than 120,000
dental hygienists across the country. Dental hygienists are preventive
oral health professionals, licensed in dental hygiene, who provide
educational, clinical and therapeutic services that support total
health through the promotion of optimal oral health. For more information
about ADHA, dental hygiene or the link between oral health and general
health, visit ADHA at http://www.adha.org.
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Editor’s Note: Helena
Gallant Tripp, RDH, ADHA president, is available for interviews
on smoking and tobacco cessation, as well as a wealth of oral health
topics. Please contact Pam Anton at 312-440-8943 or media@adha.net
to schedule an interview. Check ADHA’s Press Room for press
releases, fact sheets and backgrounders: http://www.adha.org/media/
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