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Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative and National Blueprint for ActionC. Tracy Orleans, PhD; Elaine Bratic Arkin; Cathy L. Backinger, PhD, MPH; Allan Best, PhD; Linda Crossett, RDH; Debra Grossman, MA; Corinne Husten, MD, MPH; Ann Malarcher, PhD, MSPH; Tracy Marshall, MPH; Catherine O. Maule, BA ; Amber Hardy Thornton, MPH, CHES
Objectives:
To describe the formation
of the Youth Tobacco Cessation
Collaborative (YTCC), a voluntary
collaborative of leading
funders of youth tobacco cessation
research and services.
Methods:
The long-term goal and specific
short-term (2-year) goals, strategies,
and accomplishments are
briefly described with reference to
its guiding action plan: National
Blueprint for Action: Youth and
Young Adult Tobacco-Use Cessation. Results:
Aiming to accelerate
the pace of discovery and application,
YTCC efforts have created a
strategic vision for making progress
toward filling key knowledge and
intervention gaps.
Conclusions:
Lessons learned about effective
partnership are reviewed, and future
directions are described.
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