KEY RESOURCES FOR MULTI YEAR ACTION PLANNING

Core Resources

• Board goals/strategic plan (see http://www.wtcb.state.wi.us/WTCB_WEB/whole_page/Strategic_Plan.htm) (will open in a new browser window)
  
• Best practices information grids (included) or CDC Best Practices book
• Burden of Tobacco (see http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/health/TobaccoControl/pdf_files/BurdenofTobaccoinWI2000Summary.pdf) (PDF will open in a new browser window)
• Coalition-Based Tobacco Control Logic Model
• Guide to Community Prevention Services: Tobacco Control (see http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/comguide.htm) (will open in a new browser window)
• Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (see http://www.ctri.wisc.edu/main_dept/guide/guide_main.html) (will open in a new browser window)
• Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board & CDC Boundary Statement
• Disparities Data

Additional Resources

• Surgeon General’s Report Executive (see http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgrpage.htm) (will open in a new browser window)
• Communities of Excellence indicators
• Past accomplishments/objectives of local coalition/historical timeline
• Community tobacco assessment (Communities of Excellence or other)
• Summary of strategy effectiveness for youth tobacco use prevention (included)

Local Data

• Restaurant and Worksite Surveys
• YES, Search Institute, or YTS Surveys of Tobacco Use and Behavior Among Youth
• CDC Guidelines Assessment of Local Schools
• Public Health Data such as smoking during pregnancy from birth reports
• Compliance Check data
• Quitline Calls data
• City Council Surveys
• Key informant interviews
• SWOT Analysis
• Focus group interviews
• Coalition membership surveys

Statewide Data

• Monitoring and Evaluation Program Reports (see http://www.tobwis.org) (will open in a new browser window)
• Disparities data
• Youth Tobacco Survey and Youth Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (see http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/health/TobaccoControl/INDEX.HTM (will open in a new browser window)for the YTS and http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlsea/sspw/yrbsindx.html (will open in a new browser window) for the YRBS)

DISCUSSION: Beware of analysis paralysis! Select data that will help show a picture. Summaries are often more helpful than full surveys or studies. Sometimes groups get stuck on needing to know everything before acting. They stay on the assessment and never get to setting priorities, action planning, and implementation!