Overview of Consortium Workgroups

• Promote consortium formation
• Develop mission statement and clear expectations
• Establish administrative infrastructure
• Endorse proposed components (with additions)
• Networking/information sharing
• Education
• Evaluation
• Research
• Marketing/promotion
• Public/policy awareness

Recommendations

1. Create Evaluation Subcommittee to explore development of minimum data sets and guidelines for evaluation.

2. Develop strategies for communication and information sharing.
• Best/better practices
• Lessons learned
• Technical assistance/mentoring
• Shared resources
• Registry of quit lines
• Listserv
• Identify realistic service costs for decision making

3. Improve public and policy awareness of quitlines’ efficacy at local and national levels.
• Target audiences
• Legislators
• Policymakers
• Public
• Media
• Raise value of tobacco interventions as public health issue
• Develop framework for establishing credibility and building political will

4. Establish benchmarks and standards.
• Training guidelines
• Education
• Evaluation
• Quit rate
• Models
• Promotional strategies
• Common vocabulary

5. Build research capacity.
• Examine multi-site trials
• Advance applied research agenda
• Provide technical assistance in research participation

Summary of Consortium Workgroups

Move consortium forward with
• Data
• Sharing
• Public and policy awareness
• Benchmarks and standards
• Research