A Workshop on Conducting State ATS's and State YTS's

Gerzoff, Robert

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Exhibit Hall (Kansas City Convention Center)

Robert Gerzoff, M.S. , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Erica Causey, Master's Degree , NG Contractor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Martha Engstrom, MS , Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

List the steps that a state follows from start to finish when conducting a state Adult Tobacco Survey and state Youth Tobacco Survey with OSH support.
Demonstrate how to use Adult Tobacco Survey and Youth Tobacco Survey guidance documents, forms, and tools.
Explain the utility of a state Adult Tobacco Survey and state Youth Tobacco Survey for evaluation.

Cross Cutting Program Area(s): Evaluation and Surveillance

Audience: The primary audience for this session is state tobacco control program surveillance and evaluation staff.

Key Points: This workshop will describe the support that the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
provides to states who want to conduct state Adult Tobacco Surveys (ATS's) and/or state Youth Tobacco Surveys (YTS’s). State ATS’s are telephone surveys of adults and state YTS's are school surveys of youth. Both of these surveys are state-level surveys intended to provide states with high quality, population-based data on key outcome indicators that they need for monitoring and evaluating their own tobacco control
programs.

Educational Experience: This session will consist of a workshop designed to provide participants with a clear understanding of the steps that a state follows from start to finish when conducting these OSH-supported surveys. ATS and YTS guidance documents, forms, and tools will be presented.

Benefits:
At the end of the workshop, participants will be better able to:

1) Identify the support OSH provides to states that conduct an ATS and YTS;
2) Identify a state’s responsibilities in conducting an ATS and YTS;
3) Use ATS and YTS guidance documents, forms, and tools;
4) Understand the process of conducting an OSH-supported ATS and YTS from a state’s perspective; and

5) Understand the utility of state ATS's and state YTS's for monitoring and evaluation.

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