2008 Year in Review Board Members Chair- Tom Peterson Douglas Chung Dave Cuneo Melissa Chillag Barb Meconis Larry Mitchell Bill Wright To build partnerships that provide comprehensive tobacco prevention and treatment programs, and policies to reduce the medical, economic and emotional burdens that tobacco places on our community.
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2008
Year in Review
Board Members
Chair- Tom PetersonDouglas ChungDave CuneoMelissa ChillagBarb MeconisLarry MitchellBill Wright
To build partnerships that provide comprehensive tobacco prevention and treatment programs, and policies to reduce the medical, economic and emotional burdens that tobacco places on our community.
MISSION: To build partnerships that provide comprehensive tobacco prevention and treatment programs, and policies to reduce the medical, economic and emotional burdens that tobacco places on our community.www.tobaccofreepartners.org 616-248-9165 or 616-0=975-0123
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Sponsors
Platinum: METRO Health
Priority Health
Saint Mary’s Health Care Spectrum Health
Gold: Pfizer
Silver: Zeeland Community Hospital
Bronze: Advantage Health Physicians Network Michigan Medical PC
The West Michigan Physicians Network
• Advantage Health• Healthier Communities• Lowell Physician Group• Metro Health• Priority Health• Spectrum Health• Tobacco Free Partners• Zeeland Community
Hospital
• 19 Programs offered• 12 Locations• 175 People Registered• 90 -100 attended• 70% of the graduates quit
smoking at end of program
Facilitators
• Lisa Lach
• Jodie Vokes-Seese
• Laura Van Heest
• Jil Palmer
• Cindy Lanning Burch
• Libby Stern
• Pat Patterson
CORPORATE
PROGRAMS
• Ridgeview Industries• NuCraft• Hasting Mutual
Insurance• NuWool• Pennock Hospital• Meijer Gardens• New Brunswick
Industries
• School Specialities• Kent Company• Great Lake Fasteners• Action Fabrication• Grand Rapids
Community College• Grand Valley
University• Muellers Industries
Corporate Contacts 2008
• Health Plan Advocates
• Asian Center• MAC Health Club &
Fitness Center• Steel Supply &
Engineering GR & Kalamazoo
• Health & Safety Associates
• Barry County Business Association
• Lowell Health Fair
Corporate Contacts cont 2008
• Living without Tobacco
• Corporate Referrals
• On-going support in program development
GRANTS:
Smoke Free Hospital Campus – Michigan University of MILinda Thomas
Support for City of Grand Rapids Smoke Free Workplace
Blue Cross Blue Shield Grant – TATU Program
Coming in 2009
• TFFG in Spanish –– Recruit Sponsors– Translation of Materials– 2 Facilitator already trained
• Tobacco 101 – Individual Counseling with minimal fees for service
• Joint Education Projects - partnered with Pfizer - ALAM
Thanks You• Pfizer• GlaxoSmithKline
• American Lung Association of Michigan
• American Cancer Society• American Heart Association
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