National Resources

American Cancer Society
The ACS is a nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to preventing cancer and saving lives. With chartered divisions throughout the country and over 3,400 local offices, the American Cancer Society is committed to fighting Cancer through research, education, advocacy, service, and rehabilitation.
http://www.cancer.org

American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a not-for-profit, voluntary health organization funded by private contributions. Its mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke, including heart attack, stroke, and related disorders.
http://www.americanheart.org

American Legacy Foundation
The American Legacy Foundation is a national, independent, public health foundation that is committed to working with other organizations to decrease the use of tobacco in the United States. Legacy funds programs that work toward reducing tobacco use by youths, and support programs to help individuals quit smoking.
http://www.americanlegacy.org

American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is a voluntary health organization dedicated to the prevention of lung disease and the promotion of lung health through research, education, and advocacy. The ALA fights lung disease in all forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.
http://www.lungusa.com

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Americans for Nonsmokers'Rights is a national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights while taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction.
http://www.no-smoke.org

CDC Secondhand Smoke Toolkit
The new Taking Action Against Second Hand Smoke toolkit is now online. This toolkit is designed to provide you with the tools you need to take action to reduce secondhand smoke in your community. This is the first section of the kit on Public Places. The next section will include Worksites.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/index.htm.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people at home and abroad, CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control. Other focal points concerning the CDC are environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco

Community Tool Box: Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World
This section of the Community Tool Box, a comprehensive community program resource center, covers a range of topics related to cultural competence including understanding cultures and multicultural collaboration. Each topic includes an overview, tools, and links to related areas of community programs.
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1027.htm

Community Toolbox
The Community Tool Box was created by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development, and the AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts to provide information and step-by-step guidelines on how to achieve community health and development through leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, funding, and evaluation.
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu

Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention
The Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco is a non-profit, national organization dedicated to combating alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino Communities throught research, policy analysis, community education, training, and information dissemination.
http://www.nlcatp.org

Legacy's Truth Campaign
Truth is a campaign that is committed to exposing the hard truth about tobacco so that people can have all of the information necessary for making their own decisions concerning tobacco use.
http://www.thetruth.com

March of Dimes
The March of Dimes is the national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies and in 2003 lauched a five-year campaign to address the increasing rate of premature birth. For more information, visit the March of Dimes web site at www.marchofdimes.com , the Spanish web site at www.nacersano.org, or call 1-800-244-9255 to reach the Indiana office nearest to you.
http://www.marchofdimes.com

Moving Toward Health: Achieving Parity through Tobacco Control for All Communities
This toolkit prepared by the Independent Task Force on Advancing Parity and Leadership for Priority Populations serves as an introductory document to engage tobacco control advocates and other interested parties in a dialogue on parity--a dialogue that will hopefully lead to action and the elimination of tobacco disparities. Available from Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL)
http://www.appealforcommunities.org

National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
The National African American Tobacco Prevention Network provides technical support to African Americans interested in reducing tobacco use in the African American community.
http://www.naatpn.org

National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Centers
The National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual Community Centers is heading a project to focus on tobacco use in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual population (LGBT). The mission of this project is to assist in coordinating existing LGBT smoke-free initiatives and prepare community centers to carry out tobacco programming such as prevention programs, media campaigns, peer organizing, cessation programs, and developing policies around tobacco industry donations. Site contains samples of tobacco industry ads and LGBT tobacco prevention and control ads.
http://www.lgbtcenters.org/Tobacco.htm

National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
One of the nations largest non-governmental initiatives, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is fighting to protect children from tobacco and create a healthier environment by deglamorizing tobacco use, changing public policy, partnerships, education, and advocacy.
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org

National Cancer Institute-Tobacco Control Research Branch
The mission of the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB) is to reduce cancer incidence and mortality caused by tobacco use through a comprehensive research program. The TCRB provides recommendations to the scientific and public health communities by synthesizing and disseminating research findings.
http://www.tobaccocontrol.cancer.gov

National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Persons
The National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Persons (NCTFOP) serves as a national advocate for and source of information on tobacco and its effects on older persons. From NCTFOP’s web site one can link to the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project (SFELP). SFELP provides resources useful to all states such as consultation and advice for businesses, local units of government, and individuals on policies and practices to protect employees and the general public from the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm

Out of Many, One
Out of Many, One: Campaign to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health believes that the attainment of the highest level of health and quality of life is a basic human and civil right. OMO assists community-based organizations, federal, state and local government agencies to build effective multicultural coalitions addressing minority health and health disparities.
http://www.outofmany1.org

Partnership for Prevention
Its mission is to protect and improve health. They develop and advance policies and programs by uniting the health interests of private organizations and federal, state, and local governments. Main services include: educational briefings, policy research, and forums for governments and private organizations to forge agendas.
http://www.prevent.org

Smokeless States
The SmokeLess States National Tobacco Policy Initiative is a private sector effort that supports activities of statewide coalitions working to improve the tobacco policy environment with the goal of reducing tobacco use.
http://www.ama-assn.org/smokelessstates

The Praxis Project
The focus of the Praxis Project is to support local policy change for health justice. It serves as the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH), an initiative that provides grants, technical assistance and training to support tobacco policy advocacy in diverse communities.
http://www.thepraxisproject.org

Tobacco BBS
Tobacco BBS is a free resource center focusing on tobacco and smoking issues. It features tobacco news, information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts on tobacco control issues, and open consideration of all aspects of the spectrum of issues concerning tobacco, nicotine, cigarettes, and cigars.
http://www.tobacco.org

Women's Tobacco Prevention Network
The Women's Tobacco Prevention Network (WTPN) is a dynamic collaborative work in progress. WTPN acts as the foundation for network partners to establish and build educational, policy, and advocacy activities at different levels. The ultimate goal is to reduce tobacco related morbidity and mortality in women with reduced exposure to tobacco, and decreased tobacco use.
www.wtpn.org

World Health Organization-Tobacco Free Initiative
The Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) is a WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on the global tobacco pandemic that kills four million people a year today. Every tobacco death is preventable. That is TFI's message and challenge.
http://tobacco.who.int/

State Resources

American Lung Association of Indiana
The American Lung Association of Indiana is the voluntary health organization dedicated to the prevention of lung disease and the promotion of lung health through research, education, and advocacy. The ALA of Indiana fights lung disease in all forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.
http://www.lungIN.org

Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission
The Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission is commited to protecting the ecomomic welfare, health, peace, and moral of the people of indiana by regulating and limiting the manufacture, sale, possesion and use of alcohol, alcholic beverages, and tobacco within the state.
http://www.in.gov/atc

Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
The mission of the Governor's Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse, addictions, and other behavioral health problems among adults and children of Indiana.
http://www.in.gov/cji/drugfree/index.htm

Indiana Latino Institute
The mission of the Indiana Latino Institute, Inc. is to strengthen agencies and organizations that serve Latino communities in Indiana.
http://www.indianalatino.com

Indiana Minority Health Coalition
The Indiana Minority Health Coalition (IMHC) is a charitable nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to imporove the health of Indiana's ethnic/racial minority population through developing a broad-based, statewide network of community coalitions. This site is under construction at this time.
http://www.imhc.org

Indiana State Department of Health
The Indiana State Department of Health serves to promote, protect, and provide for the public health of the people of Indiana by facilitating partnerships with local health departments, hospitals, government agencies, businesses, insurance, industry and other health entities.
http://www.in.gov/isdh/

Smokefree Indiana
Smokefree Indiana's mission is to improve the quality of life in Indiana by promoting tobacco-free healthy lifestyles through community action and advocacy to prevent tobacco use, provide assistance to tobacco users who want to quit and protect nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke.
http://www.smokefreeindiana.org

United Way of Central Indiana-Workshops
Empowering individuals to be leaders strengthens our community. Listed at this site are several training opportunities for nonprofit volunteers and employees to learn how to be effective leaders in building a community where we are proud of the quality of life for all citizens. ITPC community-based and minority-based partners may find some useful training opportunities here.
http://www.uwci.org/nptrain1b.htm

VOICE
Indiana Youth Speaking Out Against Big Tobacco.
http://www.voice.tv

WhiteLies.tv
At this site you can learn about the ways tobacco companies have lied to Indiana, what their lies cost Indiana, and what you can do about it. Please take a moment, look around, learn about the tobacco companies' white lies and how you can help stand up to them in Indiana.
http://www.whitelies.tv