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MFH Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative

CTPR serves as the evaluator for the Missouri Foundation for Health's Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative. The Initiative kicked off in 2005 and runs through 2014. It involves several activities including grant making and policy development to address the problem of tobacco use at both the regional and community level. CTPR is evaluating the effect of foundation-supported tobacco prevention and control programs on tobacco use in Missouri. CTPR also provides technical assistance and training for all of the Initiative's grantees.

MFH Healthy and Active Initiative

In 2005, the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) launched their Healthy and Active Initiative to promote healthy lifestyles and reduce obesity rates in Missouri. The first phase of funded grants covered a large variety of physical activity and nutrition activities across the MFH service region targeting children and adults. In 2007, MFH moved into their second phase of grant making: Model Practice Building (MPB). Programs that showed potential for being model practices were invited to apply for a MPB grant. The purpose of the grants is to identify model practices for healthy lifestyles which are replicable and sustainable. In 2008, MFH funded the MPB evaluation team which is comprised of faculty and staff from CTPR at Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University School of Public Health. The primary objectives of the evaluation are to conduct an external evaluation of the overall MPB initiative and to increase the evaluation capacity of the MPB grantees through intensive technical assistance and training.

National Networks

The National Network Initiative was funded in 2001 to develop networks with a national scope to address tobacco-related disparities in priority populations. The initiative has had three rounds of funding, the most recent of which began in 2008 for the next five years, continuing the development of the six National Networks. Currently, the six national networks address the following populations who experience higher tobacco use and/or exposure to secondhand smoke than the general population: African Americans American Indian and Alaskan Natives Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities Hispanic and Latino populations Low socio-economic populations Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender populations.

Best Practices User Guides

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health and the Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a series of user guides for the State and Community Interventions category for the 2007 Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs (Best Practices). The purpose of the user guide series is to provide tobacco control programs with the rationale as to why particular interventions or activities within this Best Practices category should be considered when programs are determining where they should be spending their tobacco control funding.