Upcoming Events

Trainings & Webinars

CYAN’s College Program offers a variety of trainings to support public health and campus advocates working on smoke and tobacco-free college and university campuses. We provide training on an assortment of topics including but not limited to the topics listed below. Currently all trainings are provided virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions; however, in-person trainings may resume in Fall 2021.

Trainings

The following is a partial list of trainings that we’ve conducted in the past. For full training agendas and details, please contact us. All trainings are customized to fit your needs.

Strategic Planning Session: Using the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart, CYAN staff can come to your campus and conduct a 4-hour strategy session with policy supporters on campus to strategize and plan a policy campaign targeting campus decision-makers and helping your team work through the complex shared governance process.

Student Advocate Training: CYAN staff can come to your campus, or conduct a webinar, for clubs, public health students, nursing students and other student advocates on campus. This 1-2 hour training will include: the problem of tobacco, the benefits of a tobacco-free policy, and how to get started to make your campus tobacco-free.

Policy Implementation Best Practices: This 1 hour training can be provided in person or via webinar to campus taskforces. The training will cover the importance of preparing a campus community for the change, the major tasks associated with the launch of a new policy, and successes and challenges that other California campuses have faced with policy implementation.

Enforcement Options Pros and Cons: This 1-hour training can be provided in person or via webinar to campus administration or taskforces. The training covers stories from other campuses that have tried a variety of approaches to increase policy compliance and the pros and cons of each.

Policy Ambassador Program Training for Staff: Policy Ambassador Programs are becoming increasing popular as a way to increase compliance without the use of citations. This 2-hour training can be provided in person or via webinar to campus staff or student leaders that will be coordinating a Policy Ambassador Program on campus.

Policy Ambassador Program Training for Students: This 2-hour training can be provided in person or via webinar to student ambassadors on campus. The training will cover nicotine addiction, the stages of change model, and how to approach policy violators on campus. This training includes practical applications and role-play.

Data Collection Options: This 1-hour training can be provided in person or via webinar to campus staff and students. The training covers each of the data collection options below and some the pros and cons of each.

Tobacco Treatment Services on Campus: This one half to one full day training offers the following sessions: tobacco use rates and trends among young adults in California, best practices in offering tobacco treatment on campus, and pharmacotherapy for tobacco treatment. This training is for campus health care providers and administration.

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Technical Assistance

CYAN’s College Project staff is committed to providing technical assistance and support to individuals, coalitions, and organizations advocating for tobacco-free colleges and universities. We offer a variety of services to support local and statewide advocacy efforts including but not limited to the following:

One-on-one support (in person or by phone)
Staff, Task Force, Coalition and/or Club trainings
Strategic planning for policy campaigns
Provide support for drafting tobacco-free policies
Presentation development
Materials development

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Online Training Series

COUGH Cessation Student Advocates Training

COUGH Cessation Student Advocates Training is an online, self-paced training series of six webinars, approximately 30 minutes each. This training series was developed for college students who are interested in learning more about how they can help improve tobacco cessation services on their campus and act as a tobacco cessation advocate.

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Session 1

Session 1 of this 6-session training series includes information on tobacco use rates, master settlement agreement and tobacco industry documents library, daily, non-daily, and social smoking, and social norms.

Session 2

Session two includes information about new, emerging and alternative tobacco products, tobacco industry marketing strategies and promotions.

Session 3

Topics include how nicotine works in the body, nicotine addiction vs. tolerance, firsthand, secondhand, and thirdhand smoke, and materials from the California Smokers Helpline

Session 4

This section includes cessation interventions, the Stages of Change Model, behavioral, psychological, social, and biological aspects of quitting, quit tips, and anticipating triggers.

Session 5

Session 5 includes information on common concerns when quitting, an introduction to motivational interviewing and medications for tobacco treatment.

Session 6

This section includes: making a quit plan, understanding follow-up, slips, and relapse, statewide days of action and quit kits, starting from scratch when a campus doesn’t currently provide cessation.

Student Veterans and Tobacco Cessation

Student Veterans and Tobacco Cessation is a webinar series is designed for college health professionals interested in providing tobacco cessation services to Student Veterans. This training is offered online, in a self-paced series of three webinars. A brief, pre-record introduction to the series provides an overview of the webinar series. The first session on Military Basics is offered as PowerPoint slides and is designed to provide background information on military communities. Sessions two and three are pre-recorded webinars varying in length from approximately 30 minutes to 45 minutes.

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Introduction - 4 minutes

This 4-minute overview provides an introduction to the webinar series and what participants will learn after reviewing all three sessions.

Session 1 - Military Basics

This slidedeck provides information that is important to be familiar with when working with Student Veterans. The presentation slides include an overview on the branches of service, demographics of those who currently serve or have served in the Armed Forces, and a look at Student Veteran characteristics and demographics.

Session 2 - Military Tobacco Use

The second session of this webinar series reveals the problem of tobacco use in the military. This presentation discusses challenges college student health centers may have in providing tobacco cessation services to Student Veterans and highlights opportunities to offer quit services to Veterans on campus.

Session 3 - Recommended Strategies for Providing Tobacco Treatment to Student Veterans

The final webinar of this series offers an introduction to tobacco cessation, addiction, and best practices in tobacco treatment. Recommendation cessation strategies include brief interventions, intensive interventions, and how to provide support to a variety of patients. The series concludes with a discussion on special considerations when working with Student Veterans.