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Tobacco Cessation Counseling for Traditional Health Workers

 

Build Healthier Communities One Quit at a Time

Ideal for community health workers, peer recovery mentors, peer wellness specialist, and public health workers, this training empowers you to deliver impactful tobacco cessation support where it’s needed most. Help bridge health equity gaps and reduce tobacco-related disease in your community.

Help Oregon Breathe Easier: Become a Tobacco Cessation Advocate

 

Tobacco use remains one of Oregon’s leading causes of preventable illness and death, especially in rural, low-income, and historically underserved communities. As new challenges like vaping emerge, the need for trained advocates has never been greater. Tobacco cessation training empowers you to support individuals on their quit journey, reduce health disparities, and strengthen your role as a community health leader. Join the movement to create a healthier, stronger Oregon—one breath at a time.

One of the most significant ways you may help your community members improve their health is by helping them stop smoking. Learn ways to support them in quitting:  CDC | Quit Smoking

Contact the Oregon Quit Line for 24-hour support, 7 days a week.  1-800-QUIT-NOW  quitnow.net/oregon

Empower Change

Become a Tobacco Cessation Intervention Specialist

 

Join our evidence-based Tobacco Cessation Training designed for community health workers, peer counselors, and public health workers. Learn practical, proven strategies to help individuals quit tobacco for good. This training covers behavioral interventions, motivational interviewing techniques, and the latest guidelines in tobacco treatment.

Tobacco Cessation Intervention Specialist

Tobacco Cessation Counseling for Traditional Health Workers

 

This interactive training equips Community Health Workers, Peer Counselors, and Public Health Workers, with the practical skills and knowledge needed to support individuals in quitting tobacco. The course focuses on culturally sensitive, community-based approaches to tobacco cessation, emphasizing behavior change techniques, communication strategies, and available cessation resources. Participants will learn to assess tobacco use, assess readiness to quit and apply motivational interviewing techniques, develop individualized quit plans and deliver brief interventions, connect individuals to support services, and address barriers to quitting within underserved populations.

 

Training Dates and Time:
August - 8, 15, 22, 29 | September - 5
9:00 am to 1:00 pm PST 

 

CE Credit: 20 CEUs through the Oregon Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon

For more information contact Kinda Cable at [email protected]

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Testimonials

"Great information to reach out and help people that want and need to stop smoking." 

"I like how small the training group is. I feel Lisa is a great facilitator and was knowledgeable about tobacco cessation." 

"Excellent training, great information and engaging instructor." 

Meet the Facilitators
Lisa Ladendorff, LCSW, CHW

Lisa is the Development and Training Program Director. She has trained, mentored, and supervised public health, community mental health, and non-profit leadership staff throughout Oregon. She has experience in community health assessment, health systems planning, and grant writing and management. 

Edna Murrieta, MS Ed., CHW

Edna, the DEIB and Training Manager at NEON, has worked in higher education supporting students from marginalized communities to achieve success in higher education. She is a valuable asset and advocate in NEON’s efforts to address diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally and in the services we provide.

NEON is a connector, innovator, and expert resource

Rural and culturally underserved communities in Oregon are often under-resourced, particularly in their capacity to support the health of residents. As a result, barriers to community health can be enormous—providers experience gaps in funding, technology, and training; community members commonly have limited access to information and care. Our mission at NEON is to create a healthier Oregon. We accomplish this by reducing barriers for both residents and the systems that support their health. We are connectors, innovators, and experts. We connect people and organizations to one another and to resources they need to meet their goals. By thinking out of the box and harnessing the creativity of our communities, we help lead the development of solutions to the unique challenges faced in our region. We make it our priority to learn and share policy, practice, and tools that will help others accomplish more. We believe that by working together, the communities of Oregon can move from surviving to healthy, happy, and thriving.

 Our History

Northeast Oregon Network (NEON) is a 501​(c)3 nonprofit health collaborative originally serving Union, Wallowa, and Baker counties in Northeast Oregon and recently expanded into Umatilla and Malheur counties. NEON was launched in 2004 by a small group of individuals who recognized the value of community collaboration in ensuring the health of our residents.

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