Tobacco Prevention and Control Strategic Planning

View strategic planning documents: Strategic Plan 2003-2008 (PDF, 255 kb, pdf file viewing information) Publication Number: E16-11193 Texas Inter-Agency Tobacco Task Force Legislative Plan, November 1998 (PDF, 138 kb, pdf file viewing information) Publication Number: E16-11831

DSHS Tobacco Prevention and Control
Strategic Plan 2003-2008

In October 1998, The Texas Inter-Agency Tobacco Task Force developed a plan to use tobacco settlement funds to effectively address tobacco prevention and control in Texas. The plan was built on evidence-based practices and identified the following essential elements for a comprehensive tobacco control initiative:

• Community and Local Coalitions and Programs Including School-Based Youth/Parent Programs
  
• Public Awareness Campaign and Media Resource Center
  
• Tobacco Use Cessation and Nicotine Addiction Treatment
  
• Efforts Targeted to Diverse/Special Populations Such as Minorities, Persons in Rural Areas, and Youth in Alternative Settings
  
• Surveillance, Evaluation, and Research
  
• Enforcement of Tobacco Control Policies and Laws
  
• Statewide Program Coordination Including Training and Assistance

In June 2002, as a follow-up to the original task force plan, the Texas Department of Health (currently Texas Department of State Health Services) organized a team of tobacco control experts from local, regional and state levels to develop a five-year Tobacco Prevention and Control Strategic Plan. The goal of the plan is to develop a roadmap for logically and systematically expanding the Texas Tobacco Prevention Initiative statewide.

The strategic plan is the first step in a series of activities designed to create an ongoing, data-based, program development cycle at the state, regional and local levels.

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